Languages
What was the common language, not counting Greek, of the Jewish people at the time of Jesus?
Aramaic
What type of early Christian interpretation is based on numerical values of letters?
Numerology or Gematria
What term meaning "to draw out" refers to the act of explaining the Bible's meaning in its original context.
Exegesis
What is the name for the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament?
Septuagint
What name is used to describe a group of documents discovered in the Judean wilderness that contained the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Old Testament?
The Dead Sea Scrolls
What historical figures was most responsible for Greek becoming the dominant language of the Mediterranean world?
Alexander the Great
What type of early Christian interpretation presents a figurative explanation for difficult or certain historical texts?
Allegory
What term, meaning "to interpret," refers to the attempt to translate the original meaning of the text into a more contemporary context.
Hermeneutics
What phrase describes all possible meanings of a word?
Semantic Range
The false idea that a word's meaning is necessarily comprised of its component parts is called what?
Root Fallacy
Who produced the first complete Greek New Testament around 1515 AD?
Erasmus
What type of early Christian interpretation establishes a connection between an earlier person or event that creates a pattern and a later person or even that fulfills that pattern?
Typology
What Latin phrase was used by reformers like Martin Luther to identify the need to rely on the Bible alone and not church tradition?
Sola Scriptura
What does the word Hellenism refer to?
The spread of Greek culture
Who were the scholars of the Middle Ages who added vowels and accents to the Hebrew Old Testament?
Masoretes
Name one of the three ancient Greek manuscripts that are considered to be the best and most reliable?
Sinaiticus
Vaticanus
Alexandrinus
What type of early Christian interpretation views every text potentially as prophecy?
Pesher
What is "epigraphy"?
The study of ancient inscriptions.
What term is used for the original copy of a book of the Bible?
Autograph
What is Semantic Obsolescence?
When you assume that a word in the Bible still has a meaning that is no longer in effect.
What were the three main types of ancient Greek, corresponding to different time periods?
Archaic, Classical and Koine
Name one characteristic feature of early Christian interpretation.
Imaginative
God speaks directly to us (revelation)
Christological
What is numismatics?
The study of ancient coins
What is a "hapax legomena"?
A word that occurs only one time in the Bible.
What are the three general rules or steps that textual critics use to determine the original wording?
External Evidence
Transcriptional Probability
Intrinsic Probability