B New Testament chapter 2

Question 1

Chester Beatty Papyri

Answer 1

Contain earliest copy of many books of the New Testament. Twelve volumes come from the year 200

Question 2

Codex

Answer 2

A manuscript in the form of a modern book. (Pages, Not a continuous roll)

Question 3

Codex Vaticanus

Answer 3

Fourth-century codex of the Bible housed in the Vatican. One of the most reliable manuscripts for book of the New testament. (Does not contain books at the beginning or the end)

Question 4

Dynamic Equivalence

Answer 4

A translation where the translator tries to convey the original meaning of the originating text. (doesn’t need to be same wording)

Question 5

Formal correspondence

Answer 5

A type of translation in which the translator tries to stay as close as a word-for-word translation as possible.

Question 6

King James version

Answer 6

Translation of the bible into English in 1611. It becomes the standard English translation through the first half of the twentieth century

Question 7

Masoretic text

Answer 7

Standard text of the Hebrew bible that comes from Masoretes. They added vowels and accents to make the text easier to read.

Question 8

Papyrus

Answer 8

Much of the New Testament written on this. (type of paper)

Question 9

Textual criticism

Answer 9

A field of biblical studies that tries to establish the earliest possible wording of biblical texts.

Question 10

Textus Receptus

Answer 10

A Greek text produced in 1516 by the scholar Erasmus. Became the basis for the 1611 King James Version

Question 11

Unicals

Answer 11

manuscript written in all capital letters. Gives us sthe Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus

Question 12

Parchment Bibles

Answer 12

much nicer paper

Question 13

Early Manuscript Corruption

Answer 13

Mark—–making up the last 8 stories to avoid the bad ending

Question 14

Characteristics of NT Scribes

Answer 14

somewhat limited clarity and grammar

Question 15

Transmission of the Hebrew Bible

Answer 15

texts were written, edited, and reedited over a course of centuries. At some point these texts came to be persevered as word of God. It was important to keep the texts in their exact form

Question 16

Transmisson of the Text of the Christian Bible

Answer 16

Papyrus manuscripts-versus that were written on tiny credit card size pieces of paper
Unicals-early evidence for the text of the New testament. Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus both remained fairly close to the originals
Quotations-give us important information about the text of the earliest copies of the New Testament
Copyists errors-Copyists weren’t always accurate in the copying
Intentional changes..