the name given to the method of Scripture analysis that considers the historical context of Scripture

the practice of Medieval biblical scholars of including comments from the early Church Fathers and other important teachers in the margins and between the lines of their bibles

people or things in the Old Testament that foreshadow people or things in the New Testament

the coherence of the truths of the Faith among themselves and within the whole plan of revelation

the various meanings of the Scripture text

the meaning that comes directly from the Scripture text and is intended by the sacred author

the meaning of the Scripture text that reveals that inner unity of God's pan through the realities and events of Scripture, which are signs God uses to point to deeper meaning

a pastoral letter written by the pope and sent to the whole Church and even to the whole world, to express Church teaching on some important matter

the name given to the analysis of early manuscripts of Scripture to establish the text's earliest form

the name given to the analysis of the original sources from where the sacred authors of Scripture may have drawn material for their own writing

a collection of Jesus' sayings that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are believed by some to have drawn upon for the writing of their Gospels

ancient scrolls written by the Jewish sect known as the Essenes found in 1946 in a cave; these scrolls contain some of the oldest known versions of Old Testament books

a collection of ancient Gnostic texts found buried in a jar in Egypt in 1946; these texts give unique insight about the Gnostic heresy of the time

Aramaic paraphrases of the Old Testament originating from around the time of Christ that help us understand how the Jews of Jesus' time understood Scripture and are important for textual criticism of the Old Testament