DSS Text and Variants

Question 1

Wrote Masoretic Text

Answer 1

Masoretes

Question 2

Time of Masoretic Text

Answer 2

600-1000 CE

Question 3

Places of Masoretic Text

Answer 3

Babylon, Tiberius, Greater Palestine

Question 4

Major Codexes of MT

Answer 4

Leningrad & Aleppo (1000 CE Tiberius)

Question 5

What books included in MT

Answer 5

39 Books of Old Testament

Question 6

What books in LXX

Answer 6

39 + Apocrypha

Question 7

King that commissioned LXX

Answer 7

Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt

Question 8

Reign of King that commissioned LXX

Answer 8

285-247 BCE

Question 9

Letter supposedly sent for LXX

Answer 9

Letter of Aristeas

Question 10

Period LXX was translated

Answer 10

3rd Century BCE (2nd Temple)

Question 11

Older capital letter script

Answer 11

Unicial Script (Majuscule Script)

Question 12

Dates from Unicial Script

Answer 12

4th-8th AD

Question 13

Carolingian Renaissance/Earlier smaller letter script

Answer 13

Minuscule Script

Question 14

Dates from Minuscule Script

Answer 14

800 CE & later

Question 15

Major Uncial Manuscripts

Answer 15

• Vaticanus (B)
• Sinaiticus (alep) (Constantine)
• Both 4th century CE

Question 16

Latin translation of bible

Answer 16

Vulgate

Question 17

Latin translator

Answer 17

Saint Jerome

Question 18

Books in Vulgate

Answer 18

Old Testament, New Testament, Apocrypha

Question 19

Ancient Syriac translation of the bible

Answer 19

Peshitta

Question 20

Base text for a translation

Answer 20

Vorlage

Question 21

Parablepsis

Answer 21

causes haplography & dittography

Question 22

Haplography

Answer 22

accidental deletion of words/phrases in translation

Question 23

Dittography

Answer 23

accidenta repition of words/phrases in translation

Question 24

“Harder Reading” is better

Answer 24

Lectio Difficilor

Question 25

“Short Reading” is better

Answer 25

Lectio Brevoir

Question 26

Hebrew Bible Manuscripts found

Answer 26

• Proto-MT
• Vorlage of LXX
• Samaritan Pentateuch
• “Catch all”

Question 27

Hebrew Text families at Qumran

Answer 27

• Bible
• OT Apocrypha
• Pseudopigrapha
• Sectarian

Question 28

Tri-Parte Canon

Answer 28

Torah (Law), Nevi’im (Prophets), Ketuvim (Psalms)

Question 29

Passage that mentions tri-parte canon

Answer 29

Luke 24:44

Question 30

Proto-Orthodox Christian: Included all 39 books except Esther

Answer 30

Melito of Sardis (170 CE)

Question 31

Proto-Orthodox Christian: Included all 39 books except Esther. Included Caruch, Epistle of Jeremiah, and Additions of David

Answer 31

Athanasius (367 CE)

Question 32

Group that rejected entire Hebrew Bible

Answer 32

Marcionites (2nd Century CE)

Question 33

Books of OT Apocrypha at Qumran

Answer 33

• Wisdom of Solomon
• 1&2 Maccabees
• Tobit
• Ben Sira

Question 34

Books of Pseudopigrapha found at Qumran:

Answer 34

• Enoch

- Jubilees