Curricula: Sacred Scripture
This Curricula: Sacred Scripture provides an outline of all major aspects of Holy Writ.
NOTE: This is not an article from the Catholic Encyclopedia. It is provided here for the benefit of those interested in pursuing additional studies in this area.
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I. BIBLICAL SETTINGS
A. Palestine
- Situation
- Area
- Topography
- Regions
- Geographical names – over 1,000 locations
B. Outlines of History of Israel
- Israel – geographical, historical, ethnographical development
- Jews and Judaism
- Jewish Tribe
- Diaspora
C. The Deity in Israel
- Mosaic Monotheism
- Images on the Ark
- Idolatry in Israel
- Veneration of Images
- Baal worship
- Moloch worship
- Golden Calf
D. Religious Antiquities
1. Non-Scriptural Sources of Information
2. Holy Places
3. Religious Ministry
- Levites
- Levitical priesthood
- Priests
- Jewish Priests
- High Priest in Scripture
- Jewish High-priest
- Consecration of Priests
- Jewish consecration
- Mosaic Origin of the Priesthood
- Ark of the Covenant
- Sanhedrin
- Rabbis
- Assideans
- Jewish Sects
4. Sacred Ritual
E. Domestic antiquities
- First Born
- Circumcision
- Death and Burial
- Proselytes
- Purification types
- Courts in Scripture
- Pools in Scripture
- Wells in Scripture
- Food and Meals
- Dress and Ornaments
- Ephod
- Precious Stones
- Pastoral and Agricultural life
- Science and Art
- Music
- Commerce
- Fasts (abstaining from food)
- Urim and Thummim
- Blessings
- Curses
F. Political Antiquities
G. Sacred Antiquities
1. Historical Commemorations
2. Sacred Seasons
- Sabbath
- New Moon Festival
- Feast of Trumpets
- Sabbatical Year
- Year of Jubilee
- Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) observance
II. GENERAL OVERVIEW
A. Introduction
B. Canon Of Holy Scripture
- Meaning of Expression
- Canon of Old Testament
- Canon of New Testament
C. Bible As A Whole
- Manuscripts - Hand-written copies of the original texts
- Codicies - manuscripts in leaf form; as distinguished from a roll
- Editions of the Bible - printed reproductions of its original texts
- Versions of the Bible - translations of the Bible
- Septuagint Version
- Targums - Aramaic translation or paraphrase of the Old Testament
- Samaritan Pentateuch
- Peschitto
- Greek Editions
- Latin Translations from the Hebrew
- English Translations
D. Scriptural Interpretation
- Types in Scripture
- Catholic Interpretation
- Scriptural Glosses
- Scriptural Commentaries
- Biblical Concordances
- Biblical Commission
E. Questions: Legislation
- Providentissimus Deus (Leo XIII)
- Lamentabili (Pius X)
- vs. Modernism
III. OLD TESTAMENT
A. Overview
B. From Creation to the Promised Land
- Scriptural genealogy
- Abraham
- Benjamin
- Eleazar
- Esau
- Henoch
- Isaac
- Ishmael
- Jacob
- Rachel
- Joseph
- Moab
- Semites
- Israelites
Miscellaneous
C. From entrance into the Promised Land till the Division of the Kingdom
- Joshua (Josue)
- Judges
- Ruth
- Samuel, or I-II Kings
- Hebrew Poetry
- Psalms
- Proverbs
- Canticle of Canticles
- Solomon
- Psalms of Solomon
- Ecclesiastes
- Job
D. From the Division of the Kingdom till the End of the Captivity
- Prophecy
- Jonah (Jonas)
- Amos
- Joel
- Abdias (Obadiah)
- Osee
- Micheas (Micah)
- Isaiah (Isaias)
- Nahum
- Sophonias
- Habacuc
- Jeremiah (Jeremias)
- Nabuchodonosor
- Baruch
- Ezechiel
- Daniel
E. From the Captivity to the Close of the Old Testament Revelation
- III-IV Kings (I-II Kings)
- Paralipomena or Chronicles
- Ezra (I Esdras)
- Nehemiah (II Esdras)
- Esther
- Tobias
- Judith
- Aggeus
- Zacharias
- Malachias
- Ecclesiasticus or Sirach
- Wisdom
- Maccabees (Machabees)
IV. NEW TESTAMENT
A. Persons
B. Places
- Bethlehem
- Nazareth
- Cana
- Mount of Beatitudes
- Magdala
- Bethany
- Calvary
- Holy Sepulchre
- Mount of Olives
- Desert
- Bethsaida
- Capharnaum
- Valley of Josaphat
- Sea of Tiberias
- Genesareth
C. Major Events
- Virgin Birth of Christ
- Temptation of Christ
- Transfiguration
- The Last Supper
- Agony in the Garden
- Passion of Christ
- Resurrection
- Ascension
D. Prayers and Teachings
- The Eight Beatitudes
- Parables
- Lord's Prayer
- Magnificat – The Canticle of Mary
- Benedictus – The Canticle of Zachary
- Nunc Dimittis – The Canticle of Simeon
E. Apostles
F. Evangelists
G. Gospels in general
H. Post-Ascension or Early Church
- Acts of the Apostles
- Epistles in Scripture
- St. Paul
- Epistle to the Romans
- Epistles to the Corinthians
- Epistle to the Galatians
- Epistle to the Philippians
- Epistle to the Colossians
- Epistles to the Thessalonians
- Epistle to Timothy
- Epistle to Titus
- Epistle to Philemon
- Epistle to the Hebrews
- The Catholic Epistles
- Epistle of St. James
- Epistles of St. Peter
- Epistles of St. John
- Epistle of St. Jude
I. The Apocalypse
- Antichrist
- Abomination of Desolation
- Kingdom of God
- Alpha and Omega
V. BIOGRAPHIES
A. Fathers
See Curricula: Patrology for the names of the earliest writers on Biblical subjects
- Origen – prolific writer; known for exegetical works; homilies; commentaries
- St. Augustine - philosophical and theological genius of the first order
- St. Jerome – his theological writings are mainly controversial works
- St. John Chrysostom – dogmatic theologian and exegete of the highest importance
- John Scotus Eriugena – theologian; highly speculative works lead to many errors
- St. John Damascene – last of the Greek Fathers; genius for compilation and synthesis of those who had gone before
- Rabanus Maurus - Abbot of Fulda; Archbishop of Mainz; celebrated theological and exegetical writer
- Williram – German scripture scholar; known principally for his work on the Canticle of Canticles
B. Twelfth—Fourteenth Century
- Zacharias Chrysopolitanus - famous Norbertine exegete
- Anselm of Laon - famous theologians of the Middle Ages, nicknamed Doctor Scholasticus
- Albertus Magnus – Albert the Great; philosopher and theologian; one of the great scholastics preceding St. Thomas
- St. Bonaventure – prolific theologian; Doctor of the Church, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, Minister General of the Friars
- Hugh of St-Cher - Dominican cardinal; justly regarded as the first author of a verbal "Concordance"
- Stephen Langton - Cardinal and Archbishop of Canterbury; regarded as author of the Magna Carta; divided the bible into chapters; established basis for English Canon Law
- Nicholas of Gorran – Dominican; scriptural commentator and preacher
- Peter of Poitiers - French scholastic theologian
- St. Thomas Aquinas - Saint, philosopher, theologian, doctor of the Church
- Richard Wilton - medieval scholar known for theological and exegetical works
- Nicholas of Lyra – Franciscan; among the foremost exegetes of all times
- Ludolph of Saxony – Dominican; ecclesiastical writer
- Pontius Carbonell – Spanish Franciscan; known for biblical commentaries
C. Fifteenth Century
- Paul of Burgos – Jewish convert; Spanish archbishop; lord chancellor of Spain; exegete
- Denys the Carthusian – his works form a complete summary of Scholastic teaching
- Alonso Tostado – Spanish exegete
