Chapter 1 Study Guide

NT Chap 1 Study Guide

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1. ............................. means "ruler" in Greek.

2. Ancient ........................... were used to make straight lines or to measure distances.

3. Proto- ............................. Christians created the canon of the New Testament.

4. The terms "Jewish Scriptures" and "Hebrew .................... " referred to the collection of books considered sacred in the religion of Judaism.

5. The first five books of the Bible are know as the Law, the Torah, or the .........................

6. The ................... of the Apostles is the only historical book of the New Testament.

7. The ................... are the twenty-one books of the New Testament which are comprised of a group of letters written to christian churches or individuals by Saint Paul, Saint Peter and others.

8. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are the four .................................

9. Early Christian communities had different books and ....................... versions ofthe .......................... books.

10. Protestant Christians call the deutero-canonical books of the Septuagint Version ofthe Bible the ............................

11. The letters A.D. are an abreviation of the Latin words "Anno ......................." , which means year of our Lord.

12,13. The Torah (also called the Pentateuch) contains the books of Genesis,

.............................., Leviticus, Numbers, and ...................................

14. One of the problems of with the New Testament is that we do not have any

of the .......................... manuscripts. We have only copies made hundreds of years after the original.

15. We compare the various copies to see the ....................... between them. Of over 5,000 Greek manuscripts, no two are exactly alike.

16. One example of a major difference is the story of the "Women taken in Adultry" which does not appear in early manuscripts until the ...................... ages.

17. Christians call the Hebrew Scriptures the .............. Testament.

18, 19. Most scholars prefer to speak about "early ......................... " instead of

"early Christianity"; because of it's remarkable .........................

20. A "theory" is an educated .........................