The Living Word Chapter 5 Practice Quiz

The most important modern discovery of ancient biblical texts is the ____________________, which contain copied fragments from nearly every book in the Old Testament.

• Analogy of Faith

• Word of God

• Divine Revelation

• Dead Sea Scrolls

The ________________________ approach to studying Sacred Scripture takes into account the various contexts for understanding.

• fundamentalist

• contextualist

• allegory

• literary forms

The ________________________ refers to the coherence among the truths of faith, so that understanding one truth helps us to better understand the others.

• analogy of faith

• biblical exegesis

• Word of God

• literary forms

The ________________________ approach interprets Sacred Scripture based on the literalist meaning of the Bible’s words, without regard to other contexts.

• biblical exegesis

• contextualist

• fundamentalist

• allegory

One way to study Sacred Scripture is to consider its ________________________: that is, different kinds of writing, determined by their literary technique, content, tone, and purpose.

• biblical exegesis

• literary forms

• allegory

• Dead Sea Scrolls

In a/an ________________________, something is said to be like something else, in an attempt to communicate a hidden or symbolic meaning.

• biblical exegesis

• analogy of faith

• allegory

• spiritual

The ________________________ sense of Scripture can be broken into three categories: the allegorical sense, the moral sense, and the anagogical sense.

• spiritual

• allegory

• biblical exegesis

• literary forms

________________________ taught us to study Sacred Scripture by focusing on its two different senses, or levels of meaning.

• Word of God

• Saint Thomas Aquinas

• Dead Sea Scrolls

• Saint Augustine

Critical interpretation and explanation of a biblical text is called ________________________.

• analogy of faith

• allegory

• contextualist

• biblical exegesis

Many academic disciplines are avenues for understanding ________________________ in Sacred Scripture, but we must always respect and understand that they have limitations.

• Divine Revelation

• Word of God

• biblical exegesis

• Dead Sea Scrolls