Chap 3 & 4 Flashcard

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What is the Magisterium?

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the Church’s living teaching office, a reliable and credible guide for interpreting Scripture, all the bishops of the world in communion with the Pope, the bishop of Rome

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What is the critical interpretation and explanation of Sacred Scripture called?

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exegesis

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What is the two-step process for biblical exegesis as laid out by the Church document Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum, 1965)?

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first investigating what the human authors intended, and then investigating what God wants to reveal

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What is meant by the literal sense of a Scripture passage?

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its plain meaning

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Which of the following is not one of the spiritual senses of Scripture? allegorical, anagogical, archaeological, moral

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archaeological

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What are some of the important recent findings in the field of biblical archaeology? Options: the Roman city of Sepphoris, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Nag Hammadi manuscripts, all of the above

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all of the above

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The handing on of the message of God's saving plan through the word of mouth is called

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oral tradition

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What preserves God's saving words and deeds in writing?

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written tradition

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According to the Catholic Church, how many books are in the Old Testament?

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46

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True or False: There are 75 books in the Catholic bible

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False