HEBREW TO GREEK
To succeed in business and commerce.
Why did the people from Syria, Egypt, Israel, Asia Minor, North Africa, and Italy need to be able to speek and write in Greek?
The common speech of the people.
What does "vulgare" mean?
The Devil's Bible
What is another name for the Codex Gigas?
Sopherim
What name was given to scribes who made copies of the Hebrew Bible?
Constantine
Why was responsible for legalizing Christianity?
Forgetting how to speak in a specific known language.
What does "they lost facility in their native tongue" mean?
Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus
What is Jerome's full name?
165
How much does the Gode Gigas weigh?
1454 AD
What year was the printing press invented?
Scriptorium
What was the room called where the scribes worked to copy the Holy Scriptures?
Seventy.
What is the meaning of the Greek word Septuagint?
Done without proper caution and care.
Why was there a problem with the Latin translations during the time of Augustine?
Because he violated the rules of the monastery.
Why did the monk get put into a prison cell?
To count
What does the Hebrew word "sopherim" mean?
Eleventh Century AD
When did monasteries have their own scriptoriums?
Nearly 2,000 ancient Greek manuscripts.
How many preserved copies of the Septuagint do we have today?
To have the closest translation to the original Hebrew and Greek text of the Holy Bible.
Why did Pope Damasus have the brightest Jewish scholars produce an authorized form of the Latin Bible?
Latin
What language is the Codex Gigas written in?
To make sure none of the Bible's text was added to or left out.
Why were scribes required to count all the letters of the Holy Bible as they made copies of it?
Single Exemplar
Who would read the words of the Bible aloud for the scribes in the scriptorium to multiple copies?
The Septuagint
What is the name given to the Greek translation of the Holy Bible?
The Vulgate
What was the name given to the Latin Bible translated by Jerome?
160
How many donkeys did it take to make the Godex Gigas?
By hand.
How were books made before the invention of the printing press?
Scriptoria
What is another name for the Scriptorium?