U3 Review

Find the following passage in your Bible: John 6: 52-53. What does it say?

• The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, “I am the bread which came down from heaven.”

• The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

• So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

• If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth; but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

What is a literalist interpretation of this text?

• If anything in your life is causing you to sin, you should get rid of it. But you should not actually cut off your limbs.

• If your hand, foot, or eye causes you to sin, you should actually cut or pluck them out. Because it is not worth losing your salvation.

What is a literalistic interpretation of Scripture?

• seeking to understand what the author intends to communicate by the words they wrote

• reading the text at face value apart from its context, Scripture as a whole, and the living tradition of the Church

• seeking the deeper meaning of scriptural passage as part of God's overall plan of salvation

What is wrong with having a literalistic interpretation of Scripture?

• It does not penetrate the text's true meaning

• There is nothing wrong with the literalistic interpretation

• It takes the passage of of the context of the entire Bible and tradition of the Catholic Church

• It captures only the message the author wants to communicate and not what God wants to reveal

Which of the following is the Catholic approach to Scripture?

• literalist interpretation

• literal sense

What is the literal meaning of this text?

• Jesus IS the living bread. Whoever actually eats His flesh will live forever.

• Jesus is just generally saying that He is the living bread, but we aren't actually supposed to eat Him.

Where is this passage of Scripture found?

• Old Testament

• New Testament

What does the "6" refer to in the Scripture citation?

• The book number

• The chapter number

• The verse number

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Form Critcism

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(b) Historical Criticism

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(c) Source Criticism

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(d) Redaction Criticism

• helps discover where the authors got their material

• determine historical context

• important because when and where it was written affects understanding of the text

• Identifies genre

• studies units of the Bible and how they took shape

• how the editors put together their sources

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Old Testament

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(b) New Testament

• Primarily written in Greek

• Written before the coming of Jesus

• Accounts the New Covenant between Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church

• Accounts the Old Covenant between God and the Israelite people

• Primarily written in Hebrew and Aramaic

• Contains the Gospels