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
