Chpt 1-3 Flashcards
What are the first five books of the Bible called?
The Pentateuch
How many years did it take to complete the writing of the Bible?
1500 years
What was the period in between the Old Testament and the New Testament? How long did it last?
The intertestamental period. Four Hundred years
What were the original writings (written on stone, clay tablets, or other material) of the Bible called?
Autographs
Wycliffe translated the Latin Vulgate Bible to English in what year?
1378
Who translated the Bible into the Latin Vulgate in A.D. 350
Saint Jerome
What was the first complete English Bible to be printed? Whose Bible did he finish?
Coverdale’s Bible. Tyndale’s Bible
What was the first complete translation into English from Hebrew? What was so special about it?
The Geneva Bible. It was the first to use Roman type, it used chapters and verses, and it had side notes
What Bible was made for the encouragement of the Archbishop of Canterbury?
The Bishops Bible
What Bible was chained to the pulpit to discourage theft?
The Great Bible.
Whose influence led to the Authorized Version Bible?
Tyndale and King James
What did Erasmus Greek text become known as?
Textus Receptus
What year did Tyndale translate from Erasmus’s Greek Testament?
1526
What year was the KJV Bible translated?
1611
How many words are used in the King James Bible?
Around Six thousand words
What were the Traditional text that the new translations come from?
Byzantine and Majority Text
What is the recent translation method used by American Bible Society called?
Dynamic-equivalent
Who found a monastery at Mt. Sinai?
Sinaiticus
The Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts differ from each other in over 3000 places in the Gospels alone, which is evidence of what?
Textual problems
Who rejected the vast majority of ancient manuscripts used in the Received Text and instead used eclectic manuscripts which had not been used before to create their Bible?
B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort
What is the word used to describe the accuracy of the Bible?
Infallibility
What word means the Bible is without error?
Inerrancy
Which books fall into the general Epistles?
Hebrews, James, I, II Peter; I, II, III John; Jude
What is the book of prophecy?
Revelation
What does Hypostatic mean?
It means God is 100% God and 100% man
What does Hypostatic mean?
It means God is 100% God and 100% man
