Chapter 4 Review

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Across
  1. 3. A type of sacred literature characterized by symbolic imagery; an alternate name for the Book of Revelation
  2. 6. The study of ancestry or a chronological list of ancestors
  3. 7. A synonym for covenant
  4. 9. Sacred Scripture; the books containing the truth of God’s Revelation as composed by inspired, Sacred Authors
  5. 10. The forty‐six books of the Bible recording the history of salvation from the Creation until the time of Christ Septuagint A third‐century BC Greek translation of the old Testament made by seventy Jewish scholars.
  6. 12. Those parts of the old Testament removed from the Jewish canon of Scripture but in the Septuagint used by the early Christians
  7. 14. An old English rendering of the Greek for good news; the good news of God’s mercy and love revealed in the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ
  8. 15. The five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
  9. 16. From the Latin word for common; the name of St. Jerome’s translation of the Bible from the original languages into Latin
Down
  1. 1. One who proclaims the good news; this term refers in a special way to Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, who each wrote a Gospel
  2. 2. The twenty‐seven books of the Bible written by Sacred Authors in the apostolic era
  3. 4. A person called by God to speak to his people often to announce future events that could not otherwise be foreseen.
  4. 5. The portion of the Mass that includes the reading of Scripture and the homily
  5. 8. A letter addressed to a particular person or people. Much of the New Testament consists of these letters written to individuals, to congregations, or to the Church as a whole
  6. 11. From the Greek for five books; the Torah
  7. 13. The list of the inspired books of the Bible