Exam Flashcards
What is historiography?
The history of writing.
What are the two components of the blibliographical test which inform a book’s historiographical reliability?
- Time from the original.
2. How many manuscripts?
Speak of the Bible’s reliability from the first component of the bibliographical test as discussed in class.
The earliest copy of the NT was written just 50 years after the original. As far as books of antiquity go, no other piece of writing even comes close.
Who had copies of the Law according to the OT before the exile?
Rulers, Priests, and all the people.
Who took copies into the exile?
Daniel and Ezekiel.
How do we know the Law was present in the post-exilic times?
Ezra taught the Law to Israel.
Who preserved the Law until Jesus’ time?
Priests.
In Romans 3:2, who does Paul say had the Word committed unto them, and what underlying claim does that make?
The Jews; which shows the Hebrew text is the Word of God.
Prove how careful the copying and preservation of the OT through the Tannaim, the Amoraim, and the Masorites was.
They counted the number of letters, words, knew the middle of the scroll.
Where is the best preservation of the OT today?
The Masoretic Text.
Why were the Jews careful to bury or “reverently inter” copies of the Hebrew OT?
To stop any possibility of misreadings.
What is the LXX or Septuagint?
Corrupted Greek Translation of the Hebrew OT.
Why was a Greek version of the OT Scripture needed?
Jews in Alexandria quit learning Hebrew.
Is the dating of the LXX to 285-246 BC incontrovertible?
No.
What are the three styles of Greek language in the LXX?
- Good
- Indifferent
- Unintelligible
