Chapter 2 Vocabulary

St. Jerome’s fourth-century translation of the Bible from Greek into Latin.

The official list of the inspired books of the Bible.

Means “hidden”. Describes the extra section of the Protestant Bibles where the additional Old Testament books of the Greek Septuagint from the Catholic Bibles are placed.

A second-century BC Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made at Alexandria, Egypt. The term comes from a Latin word meaning “seventy” for the seventy legendary scholars that worked on the translation.

A type of writing that has a particular form, style, or content.

The process of sharing stories by word of mouth.

A short story that conveys a moral or spiritual meaning.

The most important symbol of the Jewish faith.

The authors of the Four Gospels. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

A non-Jew.