Theology- unit 2 test
What type of Bible Criticism attempts to figure out where the Scripture writer got their information?
Source criticism
A brief story with a moral, often involving animals that act and speak like human beings.
fable
What is the number of books in a Catholic Old Testament?
46
Catholic Bibles contain how many additional books that are not a part of the Protestant Bible.
7
The process of sharing stories and other important pieces of information by word of mouth.
oral tradition
A vivid story told to convey religious truth, often with a surprise ending.
parable
Biblical scholars use ___ to determine the literal sense of the Bible.
Exegesis
What type of a Bible exegete would study the way that crops were tended in Jesus' time helps us to understand his parables better?
Historical criticism
Which of the following words do we use when we explain that, through the Bible, God conveyed the truths necessary for our Salvation without error.
Inerrant
God is the true author of the Bible and God worked through many different human authors in order to convey religious and spiritual truths.
Inspiration
What type of exegesis studies the difference between literary genres?
Form criticism
When we are reading and interpreting Sacred Scripture, we rely on the ____________ who has been given the teaching authority of the Church and a special charism of the Holy Spirit to interpret the Scripture without error.
Magisterium
What type of a Scripture scholarship would explain that the Gospel of Matthew was written for a Jewish audience and this evidenced by the fact that he traces Jesus' family tree back to Abraham.
Redaction criticism
The standard list of books recognized by a religious community to be genuine and inspired is known as a ___.
canon
A formal statement of religious belief.
creed
Which of the following words do we use when we describe how God authored Sacred Scripture?
inspired
St. Jerome translated the entire Bible from the original variety of languages into ___.
latin
Which of the following is not one of the original languages of the Bible?
latin
This describes different categories or types of writing that has a particular form, style, or content. These would include such "types" of writings as parables, fables, genealogies, and creeds.
literary genres
Which of the following words do we use when we explain that we encounter God in the reading of Sacred Scripture and that the words are relevant to our lives today?
living