Glossary

Glossary

Review the lesson glossary terms below. Glossary terms may be included in quiz questions.

Apocrypha

(Greek “hidden things”) – The books and portions of books present in the Septuagint and Vulgate but not included in the Jewish and Protestant canon.

Form Criticism

The study of the history and function of the forms in which traditions or messages are communicated.

Literary Criticism

Literary criticism is the investigation of a text that seeks to explicate the intention and achievements of the author through a detailed analysis of the component elements and structure of the text itself.

Pseudepigrapha

Greek “falsely entitled”) – In Protestant tradition since the seventeenth century, the term has been used to designate those intertestamental ancient Jewish and Hellenistic Jewish writings not in the Old Testament canon or in the Apocrypha.

Redaction Criticism

(German Redaktionsgeschichte) – The study of how literary materials are organized, interpreted, and modified by an author or editor. The term “redaction” in Gospel criticism describes the editorial work carried out by the evangelists on their sources when they composed the Gospels.

Source Criticism

Source criticism attempts to discover the written sources behind various parts of biblical text.