Writer's Cramp
Literally means "written by hand"
What is a manuscript?
What is 0%?
The process by which the books of the Bible were discovered as authoritative.
What is canonization?
A prediction of what will happen in the future.
What is prophecy?
The Bible is an...
What is an ancient text?
The original, hand written document.
What is an autograph?
What the original copies were likely written on.
What is papyrus and parchment?
The 66 accepted and authoritative books of the Bible.
What is the canon?
The rough percentage of the Bible that is prophetic writing.
What is 27%? (also accepted: 27-30% or 1/3)
The source of all truth. Also the top of our diagram.
Who is God?
The person who was responsible to copy manuscripts.
These arise when a copyist makes deliberate or inadvertent alterations to a text that is being reproduced.
What is a textual variant?
Four letters that tell the story of the whole Bible.
What is CFRR?
Refers to prophetic writings about Jesus Christ.
What is messianic prophecy?
Refers to the process of trying to figure out the original wording of a text.
What is textual criticism?
Found in a cave in 1947.
What are the dead sea scrolls?
The fact that the Bible was widely spread out, resulting in reliability.
What are multiple lines of transmission?
What is the 4th century?
These ancient tablets reflect the same social and marital customs we see in the book of Genesis.
What are the Nuzi Tablets?
The reason we might find disagreement between science and theology. Also part of our diagram.
What is human interpretation?
The first Bible to have the complete New Testament.
What is codex sinaiticus?
The name of the strict rules that a certain group of scribes followed when copying the text. (Shema activity)
What are Masorite rules?
Refers to the Scriptures being wholly true in all things that it affirms in the original autographs.
What is inerrancy?
Discovered in 2009, this artifact was likely used by King Hezekiah to seal official documents.
What is King Hezekiah's Bulla?
The likely reason we don't have any of the original writings from the Bible.
What is decay of the material? (or something to that effect)