| A | B |
|---|
| Old stories changed and expanded by biblical writers to teach certain truths about Go | Folktales |
| The writings of Paul | Letters |
| Poems and prayers once sung | Psalms and Canticles |
| The Books of Chronicles, Kings, and Acts | Historical Accounts |
| Writing that describes the destruction of evil and the coming of God’s reign | Apocalyptic Literature |
| Accounts written to God’s activity in the world | Historical Accounts |
| The Book of Ruth | Folktales |
| Joseph and his brothers | Short Stories |
| Stories to show how virtuous people live | Short Stories |
| Messages addressed to early Christians by the Apostles and their followe | Letters |
| The Book of Revelation | Apocalyptic |
| The prodigal son, the sower | Parables |
| Often attributed to Paul, but believed by scholars to be written by an unknown author preaching to a group of Christians faltering in their faith. | Letter to the Hebrewsa |
| Written by the Evangelists, giving information about the life, works, message, death, and Resurrection of Jesus. | Gospels |
| Seven letters addressed to believing Christians as a general audience rather than to specific individuals or communities. | Catholic Epistles |
| Thirteen letters whose primary purpose was to support and further educate either individual Christians or small Christian communities. | Pauline Epistles |
| Commonly seen as a companion to Luke’s Gospel, tells of the early days of the Christian community under Saint Peter’s leadership. | Acts of the Apostles |
| Sometimes called the Apocalypse, written for late first-century Christians who were suffering persecution for their beliefs. | Book Of Revelation |
| This is the living and authentic transmission of the teachings of Jesus in the Church. | Tradition |
| This is the explanation or critical interpretation of a passage of sacred Scripture. | Exegesis |
| This is God’s communicating of himself and his plan of goodness throughout history. | Revelation |
| Freedom from error is called this. The books of Scripture faithfully and without error teach the truth that God, for the sake of our salvation, wishes to have communicated through the Sacred Scriptures | Inerrancy |
| The “Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation”, part of the documents of the Second Vatican Council | Dei Verbum |
| A solemn promise, or agreement, made between two parties; the word means testament | Covenant |
| This is the process by which God the Holy Spirit assisted a human author in the writing of a book of the Bible. Because of this God is the author of the Bible, and the truth that he willed us to know was conveyed without error. | Inspiration |
