Quiz 3 week 7 History of the English Bible

Question 1

When was the OT canon affirmed?

Answer 1

Council of Jamnia 90-118 AD

Question 2

What did King Alfred translate?

Answer 2

Psalms and Decalogue into English

Question 3

When were the Lindisfarne Gospels translated to English?

Answer 3

950

Question 4

When did Aelfric translate to English?

Answer 4

1000

Question 5

When was the Septuagint created?

Answer 5

250-200 BC

Question 6

When were translations into Coptic, Syriac and Gothic made?

Answer 6

2nd Century AD

Question 7

When did Lucian of Antioch write the Greek NT?

Answer 7

305-310 AD

Question 8

When did Jerome write the VULGATE?

Answer 8

382

Question 9

When did Wycliffe complete the entire Bible in English?

Answer 9

1382 AD
1382 AD
1382 AD

Question 10

What did Wycliffe translate from?

Answer 10

Latin Vulgate

Question 11

When did Gutenberg mass produce the Latin Bible?

Answer 11

1450s

Question 12

What did Erasmus write?

Answer 12

Textus Receptus 1515-16

Question 13

What was Erasmus’ phrase for going to the source?

Answer 13

Ad fontes

Question 14

Whose ideas in 1517 spread and inspired?

Answer 14

Luther’s 95 theses

Question 15

What were Wycliffe’s students called?

Answer 15

Lollards

Question 16

When did Tyndale publish his English NT?

Answer 16

1525-26
1525
1 5 2 5

Question 17

Which of Tyndale’s editions was most popular?

Answer 17

3rd of the 5, in 1534

Question 18

Which king protected Tyndale?

Answer 18

Henry VIII

Question 19

Three “firsts” in Tyndale’s NT

Answer 19

First English translation from Greek
First NT after dawn of age of Printing
First to use italics to denote words added

Question 20

What are the Readability approaches?

Answer 20

Dynamic equivalence vs Formal equivalence

Question 21

What is the advantage of Dynamic Equivalence?

Answer 21

Preserves the intent and impact

Question 22

What is the advantage of Formal Equivalence?

Answer 22

Preserves literal word-for-word translation

Question 23

Why are there so many modern Bible versions?

Answer 23

Reaction to leftist reputation of the RSV

Question 24

What was the significance of the Wycliffe Bible?

Answer 24

First translation into English/ to any modern language

Question 25

How many manuscripts did Erasmus use for the TR?

Answer 25

6 byzantine manuscripts

Question 26

What was the significance of the 1535 Coverdale Bible?

Answer 26

First complete Bible in English.
Isolated Apocrypha at the end.

Question 27

What was the Great Bible?

Answer 27

Coverdale in large size for King to place in every church.

Question 28

What was the significance of the Geneva Bible?

Answer 28

First English Bible from Greek AND HEBREW.
First by Committee.
First with Verse divisions.
Calvinistic.
Enormous influence on KJV.

Question 29

What translation procedure for KJV?

Answer 29

Supposed to only consult Gk and Heb but never did.
Was a revision of earlier English Bibles, not a new translation.
6 teams of translators, 47 total.

Question 30

Where was KJV printed?

Answer 30

England so accessible

Question 31

What sizes was KJV printed?

Answer 31

Full size folio and Quarto

Question 32

By which church was the KJV adopted?

Answer 32

Church of England. It had no stigma like Geneva Bible. It was better literary quality than Bishop’s Bible.

Question 33

What were the marginal notes in the KJV?

Answer 33

translational not theological

Question 34

How many scholars KJV?

Answer 34

47–Bishops was 9, Geneva also small group

Question 35

What was the literary level of the English in KJV?

Answer 35

Excellent

Question 36

What groups compromised together in the composition of the KJV?

Answer 36

Puritans and high church Anglicans

Question 37

How did the Throne support the KJV?

Answer 37

Financially and politically

Question 38

What does the “1611 version” mean?

Answer 38

Not much–there were 4 revisions the first year.
2nd edition published before the 1st edition.
14 editions in the 1st 3 years.

Question 39

What 2 things about Coverdale Bible?

Answer 39

Isolated the Apocrypha

First complete Bible in English