chapter 4 Flashcards
the term canon originally meant____ _____
measuring reed
books that received canonical recognition quickly are called______
homolegumena (confessed)
other books that did not become known widely enough fro rapid acceptance into the cannon are called the _______
antilegomena (contradicted)
______ means authorship by an apostle or by an apostolic associate
apostolicity
the writing material for most and perhaps all books of the New Testament was _____
papyrus
mots new testament authors used scrolls, but few may have used _____/_____ which is a book with pages bound together in modern style.
codices/codex
commonly,an author dictated to a writing secretary called an______
amanuensis
the original documents, which are extant, go by the term ____
autographs
as the church grew richer and increasingly regarded the text of the new testament as sacred, more durable writing materials were used as such as _____ and _____
vellum
parchment
earlier manuscripts were usually written all in ______
capital
word division, chapter and verse, and _______ _____ were all lacking at first.
punctuation marks
the earliest manuscript in possession of modern scholars is the ____ ______ __ ____
Rylands Fragment of John
John Wycliffe produced his translation from ______ Latin Vulgate in 1392
Jerome’s
the _____ version apperaed in 1582 and the vastly influential King James Version in ____
Douay
1611
