Lesson #7 Questions

Primary language of the O.T.

A portion of the O.T. Was written in this language.

Language of the N.T.

Hebrew manuscript that is an example of the Masoretic text.

Oldest complete N.T. manuscript.

Highly perishable O.T. Writing material.

Paperlike N.T. Writing material.

What happened with many flawed O.T. manuscripts.

A translation made from the original languages.

Scribes who copied the O.T. from A.D. 500-1000.

Isolationist sect who owned the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Greek translation that helps to confirm the Masoretic text.

The oldest O.T. Manuscripts we have were found near this body of water.

Homer's work; distant 2nd to N.T. In number of surviving manuscripts.

Text that is composed after comparing various manuscripts.

Date of the oldest O.T. Codex found before 1947.

Date of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Number of manuscripts in existence containing at least part of the N.T.

Most ancient writings are based on fewer than this number of manuscripts.

Written in all capital letters; the most important of the N.T. manuscripts.

Cursive manuscripts.

Short sections of Scripture readings.

Broken pieces of pottery

Early Christians whose writings are evidence for the N.T. text.

Evidence within the Bible as well as that which has been found externally (archeology, geography, science, etc) help give us extreme confidence that the Bible is, indeed, the word of God.