Below is a list of vocabulary words with definitions pertaining to the biblical studies. Definitions have been referenced from the online dictionary at dictionary.com.
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exegesis
critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, especially of the Bible. -
Hellenism
the characteristics of Greek culture, especially after the time of Alexander the Great; civilization of the Hellenistic period. -
monotheism
the doctrine or belief that there is only one God. -
pantheon
the gods of a particular mythology considered collectively. -
polytheism
the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods. -
predestination
theology – the action of God in foreordaining from eternity whatever comes to pass. – the decree of God by which certain souls are foreordained to salvation. -
pseudepigrapha
certain writings (other than the canonical books and the Apocrypha) professing to be Biblical in character. -
Septuagint
the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II: most scholars believe that only the Pentateuch was completed in the early part of the 3rd century b.c. and that the remaining books were translated in the next two centuries. -
theology
the field of study and analysis that treats of God and of God’s attributes and relations to the universe; study of divine things or religious truth; divinity.
