Languages
The original language of the Old Testament
What is Hebrew?
Name of the Latin translation of the Bible
What is the Vulgate?
They held the power in the british isles between approximately 400 -700 CE
Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
The word "scriptorium" comes from the latin verb scribere meaning this
What is "to write"
A monastery was founded on this tidal island in 634
What is Lindisfarne
Name of the Greek translation of the Old Testament.
What is the Septuagint?
An Oxford scholar, he created the first full {old} English translation of the Latin Vulgate in the 1380s
Who was John Wycliffe
Name 2 individuals or groups that brought Christianity to the British Isles.
Who are: the Romans, Saint Patrick, Augustine
The word "monastery" comes from the greek word "monos" meaning this
What is "one"
Prayer books, sermons, hymnals
What are, texts copied in a scriptorium
The Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible occurred in this ancient city
What is Alexandria, Egypt
This technological invention revolutionized the availability of the written word and facilitated the spread of ideas.
What is the printing press
These vicious invaders arrived at the tidal island of lindisfarne in 793
Who were the Vikings
It means "holy island" in Latin
What is "insula sacra"
He is best known for inventing the printing press
Who was Johannes Gutenberg?
The greek translation of the hebrew bible was completed in this year before Christ
What is 280 BCE
He translated both testaments from the original languages into Latin, the common language of the empire at the time.
Who was Saint Jerome?
He felt the Bible should be available to people in their own language, so he translated it into his language, German, in the 1530s
Who was Martin Luther?
One scribe took 10 years to create a very special Latin edition of these books of the bible
What are the Gospels
The original language of the New Testament
What is Greek?
This English king permitted an English translation of the Bible in 1611
Who was King James
He was burned at the stake for the audacity of distributing his English translation of the Bible
Who was William Tyndale
A priest named aldred altered the famed Lindisfarne text in the year 950 by doing this
What is writing an Old English translation between the lines of Latin text
The earliest evidence of the good news being carried to the far east is captured on a stone called this
What is the Nestorian Stele?