Notable Characters in the history of the canon
Early Christian Groups
It's all in the details: scribal matters
Famous characters (Greco-Roman)
Gods, Goddesses, Philosophers
100
Wrote your New Testament textbook
Who was Bart Ehrman?
100
People who adopted beliefs later to be designated as orthodox
Who are the Proto-orthodox?
100
The original version of an ancient text
What is an autograph?
100
Conquered the known world by the time he was 33 years old
Who was Alexander the Great?
100
Egyptian goddess, widely worshipped
Who was Isis?
200
First person to list all the books now in the New Testament
Who was Athanasius?
200
Jewish Christians, believed Jesus was purely human
Who were the Ebionites?
200
A text written by hand
What is a manuscript?
200
Octavian
What was Augustus' original name?
200
The Epicureans
Who were the followers of Epicurus?
300
This emperor legitimized Christianity as a religion
Who was the Emperor Constantine?
300
These christians sought escape from the material world
Who were the gnostics?
300
Writing without spaces between words
What is scriptio continua?
300
Religious teacher from Tyana
Who was Apollonius?
300
Characters midway between human and divine
What are daimonia?
400
Wrote the Diatessaron
Who is Tatian
400
Preferred name for the group of Jesus' earliest followers (not "Christians" but . . . )
What is the Jesus Movement?
400
Ancient secretary
What is an amanuensis?
400
Emperor before Augustus
Who was Julius Caesar?
400
Philosophers who lived in harmony with nature
Who were the Stoics?
500
Early Christian who threw out the Old Testament.
Who was Marcion?
500
Early Christians that believed in two gods.
Who are the Marcionites?
500
Places where the scribe's eye skips a line.
What is parablepsis?
500
Augustus fought with him for control of the Roman world
Who was Mark Antony?
500
Persian deity, kills a bull
Who was Mithras?
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