Exam 2 Flashcards
Books that received canonical recognition quickly are called ___________
homolegoumena
Other books that did not become known widely enough from rapid acceptance into the canon are called the ___________
antilegomena
____________ 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
Most New Testament authors used scrolls, but few may have used _________ which is a book with pages bound together in modern style
codices
Commonly, an author dictated to a writing secretary called an ______________
amanuensis
The original documents, none of 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 such as ________ and __________
vellum, parchment
Earlier manuscripts were usually written all in _________
capital
Word division, chapter and verse, and ____________ were lacking at first
punctuation
The earliest manuscript in possession of modern scholars is the ________ _________ _________ from about A.D. 135
Rylands fragment of John
John Wycliffe produced his translation from ___________ Latin Vulgate in 1392
Jerome’s
The __________ version appeared in 1582 and the vastly influential King James Version in 1611
Douvay
______________ was a first-century Jewish historian
Josephus
The ___________ differ from Jesus’ saying in the Gospels but are quoted by early christian writers and sometimes placed in the margins of ancient manuscripts of the New Testament
agrapha
The ___________ is Greek for “unwritten”
agrapha
____________ comes from two Greek words meaning “seeing together”
synoptic
___________ critism; determining the original wording of the New Testament books
textual
__________ criticism; determining the oral tradition prior to writing
form
__________ criticism; determining the style of the writing
literary
_____________ criticism; determining ways of thinking and acting different from those of modern readers
anthropological
___________ critism; determining underlying modes of thought
structural
___________ criticism; determining meaninglessness
Deconstructive
__________ critism; determining the effect on the meaning of a biblical book from a consideration of other biblical books
canon
