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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
09/26/2011

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The Old Testament: God’s Relationship with Israel
The New Testament: The life of Jesus and God’s
relationship with the Church
Definition
What are the two testaments in the Bible?
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t-Torah, n-prophets, k-writings
Definition
What is the Tanak, and what does it stand for?
Term
The first five books of the Bible
Definition
What is the Pentateuch?
Term
Hebrew with some Aramaic
Definition
In what language was the Old Testament (OT) written?
Term
Historical Narrative, Instruction “Law”, Poetry, Prophetic Books
Definition
What different types of literature are found in the in the OT?
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Special Revelation: God’s self-disclosure through Scripture
General Revelation: The disclosure of God’s majesty, power, and glory through the beauty of the natural world
Definition
What is the difference between general revelation & special revelation?
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God doesn’t have a hand, people do
Definition
What is the dictation theory of how God inspired the Bible?
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Both humans and God are involved…God has humans do things to be inspired
Definition
What is the dynamic theory of how God inspired the Bible?
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Process of passing down through mouth and not writing
Definition
What is oral tradition?
Term
They were copied by hand and by Scribes
Definition
How were biblical scrolls copied and who copied them?
Term
They would misread and then rewrite it wrong
Definition
What kinds of mistakes did scribes make with the biblical text?
Term
They confirmed the accuracy of previously known manuscripts
Definition
Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls important for the transmission of the Bible?
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Dead Sea Scrolls were 1947
Definition
When do the scrolls date to?
Term
A group of Jewish Scribes who copied Biblical texts from 500-1000 A.D.
Definition
Who were the Masoretes?
Term
The standardized Hebrew text-form that became dominant and authoritative in Judaism
Definition
What is the Masoretic Text
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“A collection of writings accepted by a religious body as authoritative and normative for faith and practice.”
Definition
What is the canon?
Term
Books considered canonical in Roman Catholicism but not Protestantism
Definition
What are the Apocrypha?
Term
The earliest GREEK translation of the OT
Definition
What is the Septuagint?
Term
Formal Equivalence: attempts to translate biblical languages, literally by preserving the original word order and sentence structure
Dynamic Equivalence: attempts to translate the thought or meaning of the text without a concern to preserve the structure of the biblical languages
Definition
What are the two theories of translation, and how do they differ?
Term
“refers to the rules and principles that govern the practice of interpretation”
Definition
What does hermeneutics mean?
Term
It affects the culture, language, worldview, thought forms, and geography
Definition
How does our historical distance from the Bible affect our interpretation?
Term
Rabbinic commentary on the Mishna
Definition
What is the Talmud?
Term
a method of rabbinic interpretation that sought to illuminate the hidden meaning of the Scriptures
Definition
What is midrash?
Term
Assumes that OT events, persons, and concepts foreshadowed later features of the NT
EX: “Jesus is a “type” of high Priest”
Definition
What does it mean for interpreters to use a form of interpretation called typology?
Term
Meaning isn’t really what appears to be
Definition
What is an allegory?
Term
Everything is about Jesus…
Definition
What does it mean to interpret the OT in a christocentric way?
Term
“What did it mean”
Definition
What is grammatical-historical interpretation?
Term
Different scribe translations…Scribal error
Definition
What are textual variants and how do they come about?
Term
J-Calls God Jaway
E-Calls God Eleheem
D-Deutoronomy
P-Priestly
Definition
Describe the Documentary Hypothesis. What are J, E, D, and P?
Term
Interpretation of the Bible
Definition
What does exegesis mean?
Term
6 Days of Creation…Days correspond with one another
Definition
What is the Framework Hypothesis of Genesis 1?
Term
Sabbath is God’s Commandment that we should rest on the Sabbath…Rooted in Genesis
Definition
What is the Sabbath and what is the biblical command based on?
Term
Not speaking to humans beyond their capacity to understand
Definition
What does it mean that God accommodates his revelation to humans?
Term
Account that didn’t have just one God creating the world…Created other Gods before creating the world
Definition
How does Genesis 1 differ from the Mesopotamian creation account Enuma Elish?
Term
God is transcendent in Genesis 1 & anthropomorphic in Genesis 2-3
Elohim in Genesis 1 vs. Yahweh Elohim in Genesis 2-3
Definition
What evidence is there for two different sources in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3?
Term
Adam and Eve disobedience to God
Definition
What does the Fall refer to?
Term
Idea that Adam and Eve’s Rebellion affected all of us and we were all born sinful
Definition
What is the Christian doctrine of original sin?
Term
Cain killed Abel
Definition
What did Cain do in his jealousy towards his brother?
Term
Kings reign for thousands of years…
Definition
What is the Sumerian King List, and why is it important for understanding the primeval history (Genesis 1-11)?
Term
People’s wickedness
Definition
Why did God send a flood according to Genesis?
Term
Never again flood the earth
Definition
What did God promise in the Noahide Covenant?
Term
Approach the dwelling place of God…Immortality? Pride?
Definition
In Genesis 11 what were the people trying to accomplish by building the tower of Babel?
Term
“Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.”
Definition
How did God stop their plan?
Term
Temple for Gods
Definition
What is a ziggurat?
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