Sacred Scripture

General (Generalità)

• Antilogy (ANTILOGIA) Vol. I, p. 878
  ANTILOGY. - The term (ἀντιλογία) means "contradiction"; it is used by students of biblical sciences to designate those cases in which two…
• Bible (BIBBIA) Vol. II, p. 895
  BIBLE. - Collection of books held sacred, in a number differing between the Hebrews and the Christians. SUMMARY: I. Names and divisions. -…
• Biblical Archaeology (ARCHEOLOGIA BIBLICA) Vol. I, p. 1063
  BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY. - The science of biblical antiquities, that is, of the civilization of the Jewish people in the time of the Old and…
• Biblical Chronology (CRONOLOGIA BIBLICA) Vol. IV, p. 600
  BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY. - A) OLD TESTAMENT. - The Old Testament, not being a history book that presents events systematically and in…
• Biblical Cosmography (COSMOGRAFIA BIBLICA) Vol. IV, p. 415
  BIBLICAL COSMOGRAPHY. - The ancient Hebrews had ideas about the structure of the world consonant with those then widespread in the East.…
• Biblical Criticism (CRITICA BIBLICA) Vol. IV, p. 548
  BIBLICAL CRITICISM. - Criticism, or the art of distinguishing the true from the false, when applied to a literary work, sets out to…
• Biblical Interpretation (INTERPRETAZIONE BIBLICA) Vol. VII, p. 84
  BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION. - The science that studies and expresses the principles and norms for rightly understanding the Bible, and is…
• Biblical Introduction (INTRODUZIONE BIBLICA) Vol. VII, p. 92
  BIBLICAL INTRODUCTION. - The science that provides the knowledge necessary for the reading and interpretation of the Bible (v.). The name…
• Biblical Senses (SENSI BIBLICI) Vol. XI, p. 214
  BIBLICAL SENSES. - "Sense" is the name given to the meaning that a given phrase takes on when considered in its context, or to the thing…
• Communal Theory (GEMEINDETHEORIE) Vol. V, p. 1177
  COMMUNAL THEORY. - Theory of the "creative collectivity" formulated by the "sociological school," founded by E. Durkheim, heir to the…
• Concordism (CONCORDISMO) Vol. IV, p. 132
  CONCORDISM. - A method used by those who sought to determine the lines of a positive concord between the Bible and the modern sciences.…
• École Biblique (ECOLE BIBLIQUE) Vol. V, p. 53
  ÉCOLE BIBLIQUE. - The first Catholic center for scientific biblical studies, founded by the Dominican M.-J. Lagrange in Jerusalem in 1890,…
• Figurism (FIGURISMO) Vol. V, p. 773
  FIGURISM. - A system of interpreting Holy Scripture, according to which the events and figures of the Bible would be prefigurations of…
• Inerrancy (INERRANZA) Vol. VI, p. 1108
  INERRANCY. - Immunity from error, a gift enjoyed by the books of Sacred Scripture and which preserves them from every formal error.…
• Inspiration (ISPIRAZIONE) Vol. VII, p. 205
  INSPIRATION. - From the Latin in-spirare = to breathe into, to infuse the spirit. SUMMARY: I. Biblical i. - II. Divine i. - III. I. in…
• Literary Genres (in the Bible) (GENERI LETTERARI (NELLA BIBBIA)) Vol. V, p. 1185
  LITERARY GENRES (IN THE BIBLE). - Sacred exegesis, whose "supreme norm is to discern and establish what the writer intends to say"…
• Testament in Sacred Scripture (TESTAMENTO NELLA SACRA SCRITTURA) Vol. XII, p. 34
  TESTAMENT IN SACRED SCRIPTURE. - The term testamentum in the Vulgate often translates the Hebrew berith, by which is indicated both a pact…
• Tower of Babel (BABELE, TORRE DI) Vol. II, p. 372
  BABEL, TOWER OF - Ricostruzione della torre di B. rod") and of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad seven stories; at the top there was the "cella"…
• Typical, Sense (TIPICO, SENSO) Vol. XII, p. 98
  TYPICAL, SENSE. - That of the biblical senses (v.) which, beyond the literal sense, expresses a reality (person, event, institution)…
• Zigguratu (ZIQQURATU) Vol. XII, p. 1107
  ZIGGURATU. - Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian name for the temple towers that were built in ancient Mesopotamia from the most remote,…