Across
- 1. from the Latin world for common
- 3. Scared scripture
- 5. a letter addressed to a particular person or people
- 7. particularity the book of Deuteronomy written around the seventh century BC
- 8. from the greek for five books;the torah
- 12. the portion of the mass that includes the reading scripture and the homily
- 14. a synonym for covenant
- 16. the lists of the inspired books of the bible
- 17. the old testament books that comprise the stories of the prophets who cast judgement and warn of divine retribution while calling Israel to repentance
- 18. because God is the truth, there is an absolute unity and coherence of truths contained in the various books of the bible
- 19. reflecting the perspective of the Jews in Judah around the ninth or tenth century BC
- 21. an event or person in scripture pointing to a later event or person that has similar virtues
- 22. an old English rendering of the Greek for Good news
- 24. those parts of the old testament removed from the Jewish canon of scripture but in the Septuagint used by the early Christians
- 25. the forty-six books of the bible
Down
- 2. the twenty-seven books of the bible
- 4. reflecting the perspective of Jews in the northern kingdom of Israel around the eighth or ninth century BC
- 6. the portion of the mass that includes the preparation of bread and wine
- 9. a version of the Septuagint produced by Origen
- 10. those books of the bible included canon of scripture
- 11. thought to be later editor who revised all five books to reflect the concerns of the Jerusalem priesthood after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian empire
- 13. the study of ancestry
- 15. the five books of moses
- 20. a third century BC Greek translation of the of the old testament made by seventy Jewish scholars
- 23. a type of sacred literature characterized by symbolic imagery