apocryphal

Bible

sacred scripture; the books which contain the truth of God's revelation and were composed by human authors inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Bible contains both the Old Testament and the New Testament.

46

 How many books are in the Old Testament?

27

How many books were in the New Testament?

canon

the church's complete list of sacred books of the Bible

deposit of faith

the heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scriptures and Tradition, handed on in the Church from the time of the apostles, from which the Magisterium draws all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed.

deuterocanonical

those books and passages of the Old and New Testaments about which there was contreversy in early Christian History.

doctrine

revealed teachings of Christ which are proclaimed by the fullest extent of the excersize of the authority of the Church's Magisterium. The faithful are obliged to believe the truths or dogmas contained in Divine Revelation and defined by the Magisterium.

method of scriptural interpretation which the author intends precisely what he was inspired to write.

method of scriptural interpretation in which the author is inspired to use figures of speech.

oral tradition

Pharisee

during the time of Jesus, an avid, contentious student and/or teacher of Jewish religious law

private revelation

 revelations made in the course of history which do not add to or form part of the deposit of faith, but rather may help people live out their faith more fully. Some have been recognized by the authority of the Church.

prophecy

 from the Hebrew hozeh meaning "vision" or "revelation interpreted". God's communication to his creatures of the knowledge he has, including foreknowledge of the contingent future.

protocanonical

 those books of the bible, especially in the Old Testament, whose inspired character has never been questioned (by any Church Father) Can be misleading because it is not the Church Fathers, but the Magisteriu under the Pope, that was divinely authorized.

revelation

God's communication of himself, by which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan. A gift of God's self-communication which is realized by deeds and words over time, and most fully by sending his own divine Son, Jesus Christ

Septuagint

a pre-christian Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures made by Jewish Scholars, and later adopted by Greek-Speaking christians.

Testament

the name given to the two major parts of the Bible, a synonym for the covenant, the Old Testament recounts the history of salvation of the hebrew people, before the time of Christ and the new testament unfolds the saving works of Jesus and the Church.

Typological Sense