What is the Bible?
Transmission
Translation
Formal or Functional
100

66 books 

What is the Bible?

100

The original text of the Bible was copied and distributed in 1400 BC and 400 BC.

Who are Moses and Ezra?

100

Moving the Bible from the source language (Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek) into the receptor language.

What is translation?

100

The goal of this translation is to alter the form until the text is comprehensible. 

What is formal equivalence?

200

49 books

What is the Old Testament?

200

In 1947 Hebrew manuscripts were found in a cave near Qumran.

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

200

In 400 AD, an early Christian Leader translated the Bible into Latin.

Who is Jerome?

200

The goal of this translation is to alter the form until the text is natural.

What is functional equivalence?


300

27 books

What is the New Testament?

300

There are almost 6,000 handwritten manuscripts of a part of the Bible in existence.

What is the New Testament?

300

In 1380 this man translated the first complete translation of the Bible into English.

Who is John Wycliff?

300

Can result in awkward English and inaccuracy. 

What is weakness of the formal equivalence?

400

The Bible was written across 3 continents

What are Asia, Europe, and Africa?

400

Before the printing press, all copies were done by hand.

What are scribes?

400

In 1526, this man produced an English New Testament based on the Greek text rather than Latin.

Who is William Tyndale?

400

This translation has more interpretation so there is a greater margin for error.

What is a weakness of the functional equivalence?

500

The Bible was written in 3 languages

What are Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek?

500

Sometimes a scribe altered the text he was copying, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

What is a textual variant?

500

Word for Word, Meaning for Meaning, Thought for Thought, Paraphrase

What are the 4 approaches for translating the Bible?

500

The King James Version, New King James Version, and the ESV

What are examples of a formal equivalence translation? 

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