Unit 5 Vocab

Literary form that uses symbolic images, stories, and names to point to a deeper truth.

• Figurative Language

• Religious Truth

•  Primeval History

• Typology

The concept of interpreting the Bible or other religious texts outside of a literal sense; finding the meaning that was intended behind specific stories, parables, or teachings. 

• Figurative Language

• Religious Truth

•  Primeval History

• Typology

Solemn agreements God made with Abraham, Moses, the Israelites, and King David in which mutual commitments were made.

• Messianic hope

• Protoevangelium

• Covenant

• Typology

Established with the Israelites at Mt. Sinai that renewed Abraham's covenant with Abraham's descendants.

• Sinai Covenant

• Davidic Covenant

• The Fall

• Protoevangelium

The unconditional covenant made between Good and David in which God promised David that he would establish an everlasting kingdom through David's descendants.

• Sinai Covenant

• Davidic Covenant

• Protoevangelium

• The Fall

Refers to the passage in the Book of Genesis that announces the future coming of messiah and savior, the first announcement of the Good News.

• Protoevangelium

• Typology

• Messianic hope

• The Fall

Jewish belief and expectation that a messiah would come to protect and unite Israel and lead the nation to freedom.

• Messianic hope

• Atonement

• Protoevangelium

• The Fall

Reparation for wrongdoing or sin and reconciliation with God, accomplished for mankind by Christ's sacrifice.

• Typology

• Atonement

• The Fall

• Messianic hope

The discernment of God's work in the Old Testament as a prefiguration of what he accomplished through Jesus Christ in the fullness of time. 

•  Atonement

• Messianic hope

•  Primeval History

• Typology

The biblical Revelation about the origins of sin and evil in the world, expressed figuratively in the account of Adam and Eve in Genesis.

•  Primeval History

•  Atonement

• The Fall

• Typology