Week One Reading: Schenck

Question 1

the second part of the Christian Bible

Answer 1

New Testament

Question 2

literature relating to God’s people after the coming of Christ

Answer 2

New Testament

Question 3

the first part of the Christian Bible

Answer 3

Old Testament

Question 4

literature relating to God’s people before the coming of Christ

Answer 4

Old Testament

Question 5

Many Christians read the Bible ______, applying its ancient words directly to themselves.

Answer 5

personally

Question 6

_______ has often reinterpreted the words to have more universal meaning.

Answer 6

Christianity

Question 7

_______ often reinterpreted the words to have more universal meaning.

Answer 7

Denominations

Question 8

The original meaning of the _____ is a function of how these words were used back when they were first written.

Answer 8

Bible

Question 9

The Bible consists of over ____ books written over a long period of time under many different _____.

Answer 9

sixty: circumstances

Question 10

the claim that the Bible never fails to accomplish God’s purpose for it

Answer 10

infallible

Question 11

the claim that when the purpose of the Bible is to affirm a truth, it is never in error

Answer 11

inerrant

Question 12

truth conveyed or ‘revealed’ from God to humanity

Answer 12

revelation

Question 13

the process by which God conveyed truth through human authors into the written texts of the Bible

Answer 13

inspiration

Question 14

reading the Bible’s words for what they meant when they were first written, using what the words and concepts meant 2,000 years ago

Answer 14

original meaning

Question 15

How do you write a verse from the Bible?

Answer 15

book: chapter: colon: verse

Question 16

In one sense, who was the Bible written to according to chapter two?

Answer 16

not anyone today; for example, Joshua 1:9 is a popular verse that was written to Joshua in the battle of Canaan even though people often relate to the verse today.

Question 17

a ‘means of grace’

Answer 17

sacrament

Question 18

a divinely appointed path by which to meet God and experience his love

Answer 18

sacrament

Question 19

the meanings that various groups of the Christians see in the Bible

Answer 19

community meanings

Question 20

someone is not a Jew

Answer 20

Gentile

Question 21

What are the two phases of applying the Bible today?

Answer 21

Phase One: the Bible

Phase Two: The Church

Question 22

a group of writings included in Roman Catholic and Orthodox Bibles but not in the Bibles of most Protestants

Answer 22

Apocrypha

Question 23

from our perspective, the genre of the four presentations of Jesus in the New Testament—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

Answer 23

gospels

Question 24

Three of the four ____ are written as biographies except for ____ written as a history.

Answer 24

gospels: Luke

Question 25

a type of literature of literary form, such as a novel, a personal letter, an eviction notice, a diary, etc.

Answer 25

genre

Question 26

a genre of literature presenting the story of a group or the circumstances surrounding a key period of time

Answer 26

history (ancient)

Question 27

____ ____ carried somewhat in their precision and in general allowed for greater creativity than modern histories do.

Answer 27

Ancient history

Question 28

basically a letter, although some scholars only use the word to refer to a somewhat official letter that circulates to a broad audience

Answer 28

epistle

Question 29

a type of writing in which a heavenly being brings a revelation to an authority figure, both about things going on in the heavenly realm and about things that are going to happen in the near future

Answer 29

apocalypse

Question 30

messages that usually were written in a time of crisis and foretold how God would make everything right in the world

Answer 30

apocalypse

Question 31

Gospels

Answer 31

Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John

Question 32

History

Answer 32

Acts

Question 33

Apocalypse

Answer 33

Revelation

Question 34

Letters/Epistles

Answer 34

Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

Question 35

Possibly a Sermon

Answer 35

Hebrews

Question 36

General Epistles

Answer 36

James, 1 & 2 Peter, 1-2-3 John, Jude

Question 37

Was the New Testament written in the order in which they appear in our Bibles?

Answer 37

No

Question 38

Whose letters were collected first?

Answer 38

Paul's letters

Question 39

How long did the writing process take?

Answer 39

many decades

Question 40

By the late AD 100s, what was the mainstream writings of the church?

Answer 40

the four gospels

Question 41

The current Christian books of the Bible were debated and said to be authoritative enough to be labeled _____.

Answer 41

"Scripture"

Question 42

the group of writings that Christians consider to be authoritative on the level of Scripture

Answer 42

canon

Question 43

Which two books were the first possible to be written? - Matthew - 1 Thessalonians - Hebrews - Acts - Galatians

Answer 43

1 Thessalonians and Galatians

Question 44

a writing or collection of writings considered to be authoritative in some way for a particular religious group

Answer 44

scripture

Question 45

followers of Jesus while He was on earth

Answer 45

disciples

Question 46

a group of early Christians who saw Jesus after He rose from the dead

Answer 46

apostles

Question 47

correct teaching as it is understood by the mainstream, as opposed to heresy, which is incorrect teaching

Answer 47

Orthodoxy

Question 48

"incorrect teaching"

Answer 48

heresy

Question 49

abandoning or rejecting Christianity after having previously been a Christian

Answer 49

apostasy

Question 50

"in a second canon" to the other books of the New and Old Testament

Answer 50

deuterocanonical

Question 51

Some translations, such as KJV, differ for what reason?

Answer 51

The translations rely on different manuscripts.

Question 52

an ancient document written by hand

Answer 52

manuscript

Question 53

How many manuscripts of the New Testament (some in portions or copies) survive today?

Answer 53

over 5,000 handwritten copies

Question 54

the branch of the New Testament that studies and aims at recovering the exact wording of the original texts of the Bible

Answer 54

textual criticism

Question 55

the attempt of a translation to stick closely to the wording and sentence structure of the original languages

Answer 55

formal equivalence

Question 56

the attempt to catch the spirit of the original meaning in readable English that makes sense on our cultural terms

Answer 56

dynamic equivalence

Question 57

cultures in which identity is primarily a function of the groups to which an individual belongs--such as one's race, family, gender

Answer 57

group or "collectivist" cultures

Question 58

the cutting off of the foreskin: a sign of the special relationship between God and the sons of Abraham

Answer 58

circumcision

Question 59

originally the name of Abraham's grandson, it would become the name of his descendants and the nation they constituted

Answer 59

Israel

Question 60

God's proper name in the Old Testament, usually translated LORD in all capital letters

Answer 60

Yahweh

Question 61

the most important Jewish festival celebrating the day when the death angel "____ ____" the sons of the Israelites before they escaped from Egypt

Answer 61

Passover: passed over

Question 62

the victorious departure of Israel from Egypt to freedom

Answer 62

exodus

Question 63

the solemn agreement between God and Israel; He would bless them if they kept His commandments

Answer 63

the covenant

Question 64

the first five books of the Old Testament which Moses authorized: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy

Answer 64

Pentateuch

Question 65

Jews thought of Moses primarily as the ____ ____, the one through whom God made a covenant with Israel.

Answer 65

great lawgiver