| A | B |
|---|
| scribe | professional writer during ancient times |
| inspiration | insight given by God |
| biblical inerrancy | Bible is free from error on matters of faith and salvation |
| Word of God | title used for the Bible being divinely inspired |
| religious truth | values and morals in the Bible are completely correct |
| verbal inspiration | belief that the Bible writers were told by God exactly what to write |
| salvation history | God's continual plan of saving action since Creation |
| Bible history | from about 1850 BCE to 100 CE |
| human recorded history | from about 3000 BCE |
| Catholic canon | books in the Catholic bible |
| Hebrew Scripture | sacred Jewish writings in the Christian bible |
| Christian Scripture | sacred writings of the early Church in the bible |
| canon | collection of books in a single volume |
| Dead Sea Scroll | oldest known Biblical writings discovered in 1947 at Qumran, Israel |
| apocrypha | seven books in Hebrew Scripture part of the Catholic bible that are not in the Jewish or Protestant bible |
| Tanakh | Hebrew name for their bible |
| Pentateuch | Greek name for the first five books in the Bible |
| Septuagint | Greek version of the Jewish Bible |
| Vulgate | Latin version of the Bible written by around 350 CE |
| Torah | Hebrew word for "instruction" or "the Law" |
| fundamental | word-for-word interpretation of the Bible |
| secular | non-religious interpretation of the Bible |
| contextual | interpretation of Bible which looks for symbolic and deeper meaning |
| life stage | the lived experiences of the persons in the Bible |
| oral stage | time when biblical stories were passed on by word-of-mouth |
| written stage | time when the biblical stories were finally recorded |
| edited stage | time when the biblical stories were added to, corrected, deleted, or changed |
| nevi'im | Hebrew word for "prophet's writings" |
| khetubim | Hebrew word for "wisdom writings" |
| St. Jerome | wrote the Vulgate |
| St. Athanasius | made final compilation of canon in the Christian Bible |
| Targums | ancient Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Scripture |
