Unit 4

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Across
  1. 2. An Old English rendering of the Greek for “good news.” Also a translation of the Greek for “good news of victory.” The good news of God’s mercy and love revealed in the life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ. The Apostles, and the Church following them, proclaim this to the entire world.
  2. 6. A third-century BC Greek translation of the Scriptures (Old Testament). This translation was accepted by the early Christians as an authoritative and inspired translation of Sacred Scripture.
  3. 9. An edition of the Old Testament, produced by Origen, that presented the texts in Hebrew and Greek in side-by-side columns.
  4. 10. From the Latin word for common The name of St. Jerome’s translation of the Bible from its original languages into common Latin by St. Jerome. A “New Vulgate” Bible was produced by the direction of the Second Vatican Council and published with the approval of the Magisterium in 1979.
  5. 12. The study of ancestry, or a chronological list of ancestors. Genealogies of Jesus are part of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke as evidence that Jesus is in the ancestral line of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David, fulfilling the Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah.
  6. 14. Greek and Latin for “rule.” A statute promulgated to assist in practicing the Faith or governing the Church fairly and consistently. In another sense, canon refers to the Church’s complete list of inspired books of the Bible.
  7. 15. The twenty-seven books of the Bible written by sacred authors in apostolic times; they have Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God—his life, teachings, Passion and glorification, and the beginnings of his Church—as their central theme.
  8. 16. The portion of the Mass that includes the preparation of the bread and wine, the consecration of the Body and Blood of Christ, and the distribution of Holy Communion to the faithful.
  9. 19. From the Latin testamentum meaning covenant.
  10. 20. One of the supposed original sources of the Pentateuch, particularly the Book of Deuteronomy, written around the seventh century BC.
  11. 21. A type of sacred literature characterized by symbolic imagery pointing to the expectation that the powers of evil will be destroyed and the righteous raised to a new life in justice. It is also an alternate name for the Book of Revelation
  12. 23. From the Greek for the five books;The Torah
Down
  1. 1. A letter addressed to a particular person or people. Much of the New Testament consists of epistles written to individuals, to congregations, or to the Church as a whole.
  2. 3. An event or person in Scripture that points toward a later event or person. The type, on the other hand, has similar virtues or other qualities as its fulfillment.
  3. 4. Sacred Scripture. The books which contain the truth of God’s Revelation and were composed by human authors inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Bible contains both the forty-six books of the Old Testament and the twenty-seven books of the New Testament.
  4. 5. of Faith Because God is Truth there is an absolute unity and coherence of truths contained in the various books of the Bible. These can never be contradictory, but rather illustrate and shed light on one another and the complete plan of Revelation.
  5. 7. One who proclaims the euangellion or gospel (“good news”). Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John each produced a gospel, that is, an account of the earthly life of Jesus Christ, stressing the “good news” contained in his ministry and teachings. In a correlative sense, anyone who works actively to spread and promote the gospel.
  6. 8. The forty-six books of the Bible that record the history of salvation from creation until the time of Christ.
  7. 11. The portion of the Mass that includes the reading of Scripture and the homily. The first part of the Mass. Within this the Scriptures are read and interpreted by the deacon or priest. It parallels the liturgy of the Jewish synagogue.
  8. 13. Those parts of the Old Testament that were removed from the Jewish or Hebrew canon of Scripture, but which appear in the Septuagint (the Greek translation) used by the early Christians.
  9. 17. One of the supposed original sources of the Pentateuch, thought to be a later editor who revised all five books to reflect the concerns of the Jerusalem priesthood after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian Exile.
  10. 18. Those books of the Bible that were included in the Jewish or Hebrew canon of Scriptures.
  11. 19. The five books of Moses Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
  12. 22. From the Greek prophetes, meaning “one who speaks for”; a person selected by God to speak in his name. A person called by God to speak to his people, often to announce future events that could not otherwise be foreseen. It comes from a Hebrew term meaning “he who talks to man in the name of God.”
  13. 24. One of the supposed original sources of the Pentateuch, reflecting the perspective of Jews in the northern kingdom of Israel around the eighth or ninth century BC.