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| "A messenger" or "one who is sent", applied to the twelve leaders appointed by Jesus |
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| Scriptures received by the church as authoritative for its life and thoughts, used as a standard or basis for judgment |
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| from the Greek word "Ekklesia" or "assembly", referring to the congregation of believers in Christ |
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| The complementary inter working of God and human writers in the composition of the Bible |
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| A group of Jewish Documents written between 250 BC and 68AD found in caves near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s |
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| The truth that the Bible has as its origin, God himself, behind each human author of Scripture |
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| Books containing brief selections of Scripture for use in worship services organized in accordance with the church year |
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| A handwritten copy of the whole Bible or part of it |
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| means "somewhat small" referring to a large group of Greek biblical manuscripts dating from the 9th to early 16th centuries AD |
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| Writings from the Jewish religious teachers and leaders active before and after NT times |
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| Knowledge of God made known or uncovered |
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| The study of ancient texts and versions of the Bible to determine what the original author most likely penned |
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| means "law" or "teaching" used most often to refer to the first five books of the Bible |
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| A large group of Greek biblical manuscripts written in large, carefully formed letters similar to capital letters. |
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| An interpretive approach starting with the nature of Scripture as revealed by historical criticism and then asks how the biblical text functions in communities of faith |
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| Investigation of the text's form and function in all of its parts and levels arriving at a better understanding of the parts and as a whole |
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| A philosophy and attitude focusing on the problems of human life in the modern world |
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| Drawing the author's original meaning and intent from a text by considering all of the relevant data |
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| Formal Expression of praise, offering glory and honor to God |
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| An analysis that distinguishes between what is primary and secondary in a text and aid in the process of exegesis |
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| Means "to interpret", usually referring to the science and art of interpreting a text |
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| Discipline of study that deals with the historical setting of a document |
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| The study of Biblical Books as literature, analyzing their forms, structure, figures of speech, and general literary characteristics |
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| Method of critical study to isolate the earlier units of tradition from the editorial elements in order to place them in their proper life setting |
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| Method of interpretation that uses modern social science theories and insights to examine the social setting in which the biblical text was written |
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| Method of study to reconstruct the sources that the Gospel writers may have used to write their accounts |
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| An approach to Biblical study that underlying all expression and narrative is a structure in one's mind determining courses that one's thoughts and expressions take. |
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| Hypothesis that Mark was the first written Gospel and primary source for both Matthew and Luke |
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| Approach that tries to incorporate modern insights on the study of ancient and modern literature, such as the Bible as a literary production |
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| A literary unit of tradition, such as a parable or story in form criticism |
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| German "quelle" or "source" designates a hypothetical document that contained primarily sayings of Jesus |
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| Theory of interpretation asserting the meaning of a text lies not in the author's intended message but in the thought and feeling of readers as they encounter the text |
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| Method to better understand a biblical author's intended meaning by analyzing speech, argumentation, and persuasion from the author's time period |
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| Reinterpreting mythological biblical images and language to provide self-understanding acceptable to the modern scientific mind in anthropological (human-oriented) or existential (personal) categories |
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