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Religion Fr. Rudi

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Means that what is written in Sacred Scripture is what God wanted communicated to humankind Inspiration
When reading the Bible, Jews use the word ________ as a replacement for the holy name of God Adonai
A/An _______ sense of Scripture helps you to understand how some of the events of the Old Testament prefigure Christ Allegorical
Designates writings included in the Catholic Old Testament but not in the Hebrew Bible. Deuterocanonical
Like Jews, early Christians also showed reverence for the sacredness of God's name, referring to Jesus as _______ Lord
A/An _______ sense of Scripture helps you to understand how some of the events of the Old Testament prefigure Christ Anagogical
Something created by past humans, usually for a specific purpose Artifact
The most common name for the God of the Hebrew people YWHW
The Scriptures and oral preaching of the Apostles are handed down in the Church through a process called _______ Apolistic Succession
Jews prefer this name for their Sacred Scripture Hebrew Bible
T/F: Because it is the inspired Word of God, the Bible is different from any other book. True
T/F: Both Catholics and Protestants recognize only the Jewish canon in their Old Testaments, with its thirty-nine books False
T/F The Church has always accepted and promoted the idea that the New Testament voided the Old Testament False
T/F: The Old Testament is one continuous story divided into episodes or chapters. False
T/F: Love is the fundamental vocation of every human being. True
T/F: A person's words are never sufficient to entirely portray God, but words are necessary for communicating with and even thinking about God. True
T/F: The Bible is arranged in chronological order False
The Church relies equally on Scripture and on her living Tradition to enrich all people with God's Word True
T/F: Just like in science, a biblical discovery isn't considered real until many people confirm it. True
T/F: The Old Testament was not part of the Bible that Jesus knew. False
The Second Vatican Council offered three rules or criteria for interpreting Scripture in the sacred spirit which it was written. 1. Be attentive to the analogy of faith. 2. Look closely at the content and unity of the whole of Scripture. 3. Read Scripture within "the living tradition of the whole Church"
What do these Old Testament books share in common: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom, SIrach, Baruch, and parts of Esther and Daniel? They were included in the Catholic Old Testament but not in the Hebrew Bible
This term refers to ancient books from the same time frame as the books of the Bible but which the Church decided were not inspired by God and could not be included in the canon of the Bible pseudepigrapha
A memorial carved by Pharaoh Merneptah, made around 1208 or 1207 BC to commemorate his military campaigns in Canaan is the first use of the word _______ in history Israel
The Books of the Old Testament were predominately written in this language Hebrew
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947-1956 was very important because they helped confirm the previous translations of the Old Testament
To say that God is the author of Sacred Scripture means that God inspired human authors to write the sacred words
One school of thought hold that the earliest biblical books are based on oral traditions first written down during the time of Solomon
The Church considers the Old Testament the inspired word of God useful for study and prayer an interpretation of the New Testament
The books discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945 are of considerable historical, literary, and religious interest for the study of the late Old Testament era
The word _____ refers to an official list of books accepted as Holy Scripture canon
The ______ refers to a separate section in some Protestant Bibles including seven books left out of the Jewish canon around AD 90 Apocryphya
A/An ______ is the study of prefigured patterns of divine activity, like the way we can read the Old Testament in light of Christ crucified and risen Typology
________ is the science of studying material remains of past human life and activities Archaeology
If you put together the first letters of the three Hebrew names of teh sections, you get the acronym _____, the term often used as shorthand by modern Jews to refer to the Hebrew Bible TANAK
______ is an offense against God Sin
In some Jewish traditions, the name ___________ is considered too sacred to pronounce out loud YHWH
________ is the living transmission of the Church's Gospel message found in the church's teaching life, and worship. Sacred tradition
The pope and the ___________ are ultimately responsible not only for determining the validity of a translation but also for interpreting its words College of Bishops
The ______ is ultimately responsible for "guarding" the Word of God scrupulously and explaining it faithfully with the help of the Holy Spirit. Magisterium
The oldest reference to the israelites in existence, in it an Egyptian Pharaoh brags that he successfully defeated a people called "Isreal" Merneptah Stele
Features the same text in two Egyptian languages, including hieroglyphic, and also Ancient Greek, allowing Greek readers to work out the Egyptian translation Rosetta Stone
Canaanites who invaded and controlled Egypt for a time; possibly ancestors of the Israelites Hyksos
An inscription, created around 840 BC and that comes from Moab, in which the king of Moab claims that his god gave him victory over Israel. Mesha Inscription
The king of the SOuthern Kingdom of Judah who is credited with initiating a major reform among the Hebrews called the Deuteronomic Reform Josiah
He likely borrowed from the design of some of the Canaanite temples when the Jerusalem Temple was built Solomon
Babylonian king who defeated the Judah, making it a vassal state, and who initiated the Babylonian Exile Nebuchadnezzar
The most popular god of the Canaanites who brought rain and thus provided for fertile grounds Baal
He established a capital city, Jerusalem, and extended Israelite political influence geographically David
The consort of El and the goddess of fertility; sometimes called the "Queen of Heaven" Asherah
T/F: The early Israelites settled in coastal villages close to the Mediterranean Sea False
T/F: The greatest motivation for writing in ancient times was not for spiritual or religious purposes but for business and military needs. False
T/F: Water is a rich symbol in both the Old and New Testaments and consequently Christians made the connection to water used in the Sacrament of Baptism True
T/F: In the ancient Middle East, Mesopotamia served as a kind of land bridge between Canaan and Egypt False
T/F: In American history, the relationship between the Hopi and Navajo peoples parallels the relationship between the Israelites and the Philistines True
T/F: The justice and equality of the Canaanite religion mirrored the same emphasis of those who followed YHWH False
The Southern Kingdom of Israel fell first to the Assyrians while the Northern Kingdom feel much later of the Babylonians False
It is difficult to trace a reliable history of the Israelites using Genesis and it seems best to treat Genesis as a religiously motivated story of the origin of the Hebrew people True
It's clear from the Old Testament that nearly all the Israelite and Judean kings never abandoned pure YHWH worship False
The laws about the treatment of slaves in the Old Testament make clear that perpetual slavery was not acceptable True
Putting the Old Testament into context means Understanding the cultural and social influences of the ancient Israelites knowing the history of the ancient Israelites learning the geography the lands of the Bible
The Old Testament era approximately spans these years 1300 - 63 BC
Which word best describes the geography of Palestine? Diverse
Understanding the geographical position of the Israelites in Canaan helps to explain the amount of violence in the Old Testament
Early Israelite faith was based on all of the following except a mixing of Israelite religious beliefs and practices with their pagan neighbors
The purpose of a "Jubilee year" set by the priests in Leviticus was to encourage a fair distribution of basic necessities
The largest body of religious poetry in teh Bible The book of Psalms
Which of these is not one of the main activities of the Old Testament prophets? to predict future events, both good and bad
This Old Testament prophetic book seems to have been written in three parts and is a good example of the continued tradition that major prophetic figures can inaugurate Isaiah
To say that God is the author of the Bible means he inspired the authors while respecting their freedom to choose the words they wrote
THe earliest form of writing, in which pictures represented words or ideas pictograms
an ancient form of Egyptian writing, more stylized than other early froms of writing but not based on an alphabet hieroglyphics
The book of ______ formally introduces the Chosen People Exodus
Stories or myths about the origins of the earth, humans, other creatures, languages, and cultures primeval history
a blending of two or more religious traditions syncretism
a group migration or flight away from teh homeland into one or more other countries. The word can also refer to people who have maintained their separate identity (often religious but occasionally ethnic, racial, or cultural) diaspora
a term that refers to events or objects that date to a time before the development of writing and the existence of written records prehistoric
people trained to write using the earliest forms of writing before literacy was widespread scribes
One of the most decisive changes of destiny for the Jewish people in which they no only survived in exile; they also reconstructed their faith Babylonian exile
the historical, cultural, social, or political circumstances surrounding an event or record context
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