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THEO 210- Biblical Theology Midterm
Exam Study Guide Spring 2025
Primeval History - ANSWER✔✔-the history of the first age of humanity, and the term typically specifies
Genesis books 1 through 11.
It tells how God creates the world and all its beings: adam and eve, cain & abel noah through abraham
testamentum - ANSWER✔✔-"last will"
"to make a will"
Canon - ANSWER✔✔-a set of texts which a particular religious community regards as authoritative
scripture
Tanakh - ANSWER✔✔-The Hebrew Bible, which is also called the Mikra, is the canonical collection of
Hebrew scriptures
The first of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures comprising the first five books (Christian Old
Testament) of the Hebrew Bible
Torah - ANSWER✔✔-The law of God, which was given to Moses
Recorded through the first 5 books of the bible
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Also known as the Pentateuch
Pentateuch - ANSWER✔✔-Another name for the first 5 books of the Bible
Called the Torah
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deutoronomy
Nevi'im - ANSWER✔✔-The Hebrew Prophetical Books, subdivided into "former" prophets (4 books) and
"latter" prophets (14 books) (18 Nevi'im books total)
Together, these books trace Jewish History from the time of Moses' death until the destruction of the
First Temple and the subsequent Exile of the Southern Kingdom to Babylonia.
Former: Joshua, Judges, Samual, and Kings
Latter: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekial (Major Prophets) and The Twelve (Minor Prophets)
Ketuvim - ANSWER✔✔-A.k.a Hagiographa, the third of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament,
variously arranged, but usually comprising the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth,
Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles.
Deutorocanonical - ANSWER✔✔-Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Jewish Torah
Literally means "second law" from the Greek "duet eros" and "nomos"
Chapters 1-30 of the book consist of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on
the plains of Moab, shortly before they enter the Promised Land.
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Textual Criticism - ANSWER✔✔-the process of attempting to ascertain the original wording of a text.
Matters because it is the means by which we can establish and defend the integrity of the New
Testament in light of the thousands of variants which exist among manuscripts
Codex Sinaiticus - ANSWER✔✔-The earliest known manuscript of the Bible, compiled in 4th century BCE
One of the four great uncial codices, ancient, handwritten copies of a Bible written in Greek
Vulgate - ANSWER✔✔-First translation of the Bible into Latin from Greek
In 4th century by St Jerome
Became the Catholic Church's official Latin text. Still used in Latin church today
Septuagint - ANSWER✔✔-is the earliest extant Koine Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible
the Torah was translated in the mid-3rd century BCE
According to legend, 72 Jewish scholars were asked by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Greek King of Egypt,
to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew to Greek for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria
Henothesim - ANSWER✔✔-Devoted to one God but recognize the presence of others
Somewhat of a mix between Monotheism and Polytheism, but more complicated
Formal Correspondence and Dynamic Equivalence - ANSWER✔✔-the two theories of biblical translation,
ranging from more literal to paraphrases
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