Sacred Scripture Exegesis Flashcards
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What is 'narrative criticism' in New Testament studies?
Answer: Analyzing the literary artistry of the text as a unified story with plot, characters, and narrator
Narrative criticism treats the biblical text as a literary story and examines its narrative elements — plot, characters, point of view, and rhetoric — as a unified whole.
Which term describes the perspective or worldview embedded within a biblical text that reflects the assumptions of its culture?
Answer: Ideology criticism
Ideological or ideology criticism examines the cultural assumptions, power structures, and social perspectives embedded within biblical texts.
What is the significance of the 'Masoretic Text' for Old Testament exegesis?
Answer: It is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Old Testament produced by Jewish scribes
The Masoretic Text is the authoritative Hebrew-Aramaic text of the Jewish Bible, standardized by the Masoretes (6th–10th century AD), and forms the basis of most Old Testament translations.
In exegesis, what does 'demythologizing' (associated with Rudolf Bultmann) attempt to do?
Answer: Strip away mythological language to recover the existential kerygma for modern readers
Bultmann's program of demythologizing sought to reinterpret the mythological worldview of the New Testament in terms of existentialist philosophy to make the Gospel meaningful to modern people.
What is the 'fourfold sense' of Scripture according to medieval tradition, as summarized in the mnemonic verse?
Answer: Historical, allegorical, tropological (moral), and anagogical
The medieval couplet summarizes the four senses: the literal (what happened), allegorical (what to believe), tropological/moral (how to act), and anagogical (what to hope for).
What exegetical insight does the concept of 'progressive revelation' provide for catechists?
Answer: God's self-disclosure unfolds gradually through salvation history, reaching fullness in Christ
Progressive revelation holds that God revealed himself incrementally throughout salvation history, with earlier texts anticipating and finding their fullness in Jesus Christ.
The 'Johannine Comma' (1 John 5:7-8 in some older translations) is significant in textual criticism because it:
Answer: Is widely regarded as a later Latin insertion absent from the earliest Greek manuscripts
The Johannine Comma is a trinitarian phrase found in later Latin manuscripts but absent from the oldest and most reliable Greek manuscripts, making it a classic example of textual interpolation.