fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb
What is vellum?
100
The word meaning "prophecy or revelation"
What is apocolypse?
100
A third-century BC Greek translation of the Scriptures (Old Testament) made by seventy-two Jewish scholars. This translation was accepted by the early Christians as authoritative and inspired. The writers of the New Testament quoted from it.
What is the Septuagint?
100
the book of Jewish mysticism
What is Kabala?
200
yod or yodh
What is a Hebrew letter?
200
Hebrew capital letters
What is uncial?
200
a huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
200
A collection of authoritative Jewish writings that comment and interpret biblical laws.
What is the Talmud?
200
The group of people who added punctuation to the Bible
What is Massoretes
300
early written compilation of Jewish oral law/tradition written in AD 200
What is the Misnah?
300
a form of Christianity, originally Egyptian, that has existed in Ethiopia since the 4th century
What is coptic?
300
From the Greek for "seeing the whole together," the name given to the books of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, because they are similar in style and content.
What are the Synoptic Gospels?
300
a term for the books of the Bible that make up the Hebrew canon; the Jewish Bible
What is the Tanakh?
300
The word that means "covenant"?
What is testament?
400
a place in Jordan near the Red Sea where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found
What is Qumran?
400
6 translations of hebrew old testament
What is the Hexapla?
400
This phrase means "good news"
What is "gospel"?
400
A Hebrew word meaning "law," referring to the first five books of the Old Testament.
What is the Torah?
400
the instruction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually
What is edification?
500
the false writings
What is pseudigraphia?
500
Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)
Who is Hammurabi?
500
discovered by Tischendorf in 1859 in the convent of St. Catherine's; contains all the New Testament
What is the Sinaitic Codex?
500
from the 4th century; contains most of the New Testament
What is the Vatican Codex?
500
a group of books not found in the Protestant or Jewish versions of the Old Testament