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.
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.
