| A | B |
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| Analogy of Faith | Because God is Truth, there is an absolute unity and coherence of truths contained in the various books of the Bible. |
| Apocalypse | A type of sacred literature characterized by symbolic imagery pointing tot he expectation that the powers of evil will be destroyed and the righteous raised to new life in justice. |
| Bible | Sacred Scripture |
| Canon | Greek and Latin for "rule". |
| Deuterocanonical | Those parts of the Old Testament that were removed from the Jewish or Hebrew canon of Scripture |
| Deuteronomistic (D) | One of the supposed original sources of the Pentateuch |
| Elohist (E) | One of the supposed original sources of the Pentateuch, reflecting the perspective of Jews in the northern kingdom of Israel around the 8th or 9th century. |
| Epistle | A letter addressed to a particular person or people. |
| Evangelist | One who proclaims the evangellion or gospel (good news) |
| Figure | An event or person in Scripture that points toward a later event or person. |
| Genealogy | The study of ancestry, or a chronological list of ancestors. |
| Gospel | An Old English rendering of the Greek for "good news"/ |
| Hexapla | An edition of the Old Testament, produced by Origen |
| Liturgy of the Eucharist | The portion of the mass that includes the preparation of the bread and wine. |
| Liturgy of the Word | The portion of the Mass that includes the reading of Scripture and the homily. |
| New Testament | The twenty seven books of the Bible written by sacred authors in apostolic times |
| Old Testament | The forty six books of the bible that record the history of salvation from creation until the time of Christ. |
| Pentateuch | From a Greek term meaning "five books" referring to the Torah |
| Priestly (P) | One of the supposed original sources of the Pentateuch. |
| Prophet | From the Greek Prophetes, meaning "one who speaks for" |
| Prophetic Literature | The Old Testament books that comprise the stories of the prophets who cast judgement and warn of divine retribution. |
| Protocanonical | those books of the Bible that were included in the Jewish or Hebrew canon of Scriptures. |
| Septuagint | A third-century BC Greek translation of the Scriptures. |
| Testament | From the Latin testamentum |
| Torah | The five books of Moses |
| Vulgate | From the Latin word for "common". |
