Glossary

The Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot is a week-long festival commemorating the 40-year journey of the Israelites in the wilderness.

Faithfulness to a person

A form of scholarship where classification of the genres of texts is used to trace the evolution of literary units back from their present written form to their original form - usually an oral proclamation - in order to identify their original life situations and social contexts.

An approach to the Bible that see that what it says is always and only literally true as stated.  This is not the understanding of other Catholics. In a broader context it is also, beginning in the late nineteenth century, a movement in which a few Protestant preachers/writers sought ot reduce Christianity to a small number of 'fundamental' beliefs.  One of these was a literal interpretation of the Bible.