Identify the three stages of gospel formation
- Jesus (oral)
- Apostles (oral)
- Evangelists (written)
Identify St. Jerome
Church father and scholar who translated the Bible creating the Latin Vulgate
Identify some translations of the bible
-KJV
-RSV
-Douay-Rheims
-NKJV
-NAB
-The Jerusalem Bible
Identify some methods and approaches to interpreting sacred scripture
- Historical Critical Method
- Canonical Critical
- Feminist
- Form Criticism
- Liberationist
Define Canon
“rule” or “standard”
The books received by the church as inspired by God and therefore authoritative as guide in faith and morals
Finalized at the Council of Trent (1546)
Identify some ecclesial/magisterial documents on the Bible
- Providentissimus Deus
- Divino Afflante Spiritu
- The interpretation of the Bible in the Church
- Dei Verbum
Explain the dating of PD, DAS, & IBC
IBC was written fifty years after Divino Afflante Spiritu which was written fifty years after PD
ID two verses that provide Biblical foundation for TH Insp
- II Tim 3:16
- II Peter 1:19-21
Define Theopneustos
Inspired {literally: breathed upon} by God
ID Five Theories of Inpiration
- Strict Verbal
- Limited Verbal
- Insp of content
- Insp of human authors
- Insp of early Xn communities
Explain inspiration previously philosophical
God was the First Cause and the human authors were the instrumental cause
ID apparent contradictions in the Bible
- Location of the great sermon (mtn or plain)
- baptism location
- number of angels at the tomb
- cleansing of the temple timeline
- length of the flood
- Abraham’s burial site
- (errors in natural science)
ID Codex
Manuscripts on individual leaves bound together along one edge; the predecessor of the modern book; replaced the scroll gradually after the first century AD
ID the four most important codices today with anything remarkable about them
- Vaticanus - no one knows how it got there
- Sinaiticus - It was being used to build fires at St Catherine’s monastery until a visiting scholar recognized it
- Alexandrinus - located in Alexandria because of the Jewish diaspora
- Bezae - bilingual Greek and Hebrew
ID prominent individuals who contributed to the canon
- Jerome
- Athanasius
- Augustine
- Marcion
ID the councils that led to the fixing of the canon
- Carthage
- Florence
- Trent
Explain how the Hebrew, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant canons differ
- The Catholic canon is based on the LXX and includes the Deuterocanonical books including the “additional” sections of Daniel and Esther.
- The Orthodox canon includes those books plus other “apocryphal” books.
- The Protestant canon is based on the Masoretic text and therefore contains no deuterocanonical or apocryphal books.
- The Hebrew canon, since Jamnia, uses the Masoretic text and therefore also contains no deuterocanonical or apocryphal books
ID the synonym for “Testament”
Covenant
ID Jerome’s categories of books
- Inspired and canonical
- Edifying but not inspired/canonical
- Apocryphal
Jerome’s assignation of Didache and Shepherd of Hermas
Edifying but not inspired/canonical
OT for Jewish Christians
LXX
Explain the debate re: Revelation in the East and West
The West accepted Revelation as inspired because of it’s apostolic authorship by John. The east questioned its authorship and had concerns about misinterpretation of its symbolism which led them to reject its liturgical use.
ID the most common criteria employed in the canonical process
- Apostolic Origin (real or putative)
- Orthodoxy
- Antiquity
- Use in liturgical worship
ID the two versions of the Jewish canon and what distinguishes them
- The Palestinian Canon is written in Hebrew
- The Alexandrian Canon is written in Greek
