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The Canon
Translation History
Names and Dates
Bonus for all
100
3 ways in which ancient writers recorded their texts.
What is on stone, clay, papyrus or leather.
100
According to tradition this Old Testament leader compiled and edited most of the Hebrew Scriptures.
Who is Ezra
100
These factors led to the making of the Septuagint.
What is the dispersal of the Jewish people, Greek was established as a universal language or fewer people learning Hebrew.
100
Bishop Bede wrote the Gospel of John into Old English in this year.
What is 735 AD?
200
Scrolls were made in this form and a codex in this form.
What is sheets glued together side to side and rolled up and sheets stacked and bound on the left edge.
200
The Septuagint contributed to the establishment of the Hebrew Canon in this way.
What is the translators had to select which manuscripts to translate.
200
This person translated the entire Bible into Latin around 400AD.
Who is Jerome?
200
Around 1382 this person translated the Vulgate into Middle English.
Who is John Wycliffe?
300
The reason we have copies and not the original papyrus manuscripts.
What is papyrus and leather deteriorated.
300
This number of books was in the Hebrew Canon.
What is 24.
300
This major factor led to the translation of the Bible into languages other than Latin in the 5th and 6th centuries.
What is the end of the Roman empire.
300
Erasmus, a scholar and theologian, published a Greek New Testament which was the basis of the Textus Receptus in this year.
What is 1516?
400
The maximum number of corrections allowed and what happened to those with more than this number.
What is 3 and buried.
400
The way that early Christians decided whether a text had authority of Scripture.
What is Apostolic Authority and benefit to the churches.
400
This person translated the Vulgate into English in 1384.
Who is John Wycliffe.
400
The Textus Receptus was used by the translators of this popular version of the Bible.
What is The King James Bible?
500
A discovery made in 1947 demonstrating the exceptional accuracy of the Hebrew scribal tradition.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
500
This was the role of the early church councils in establishing the New Testament Canon.
What is They confirmed the books that were already recognized as scripture.
500
This event sparked a large number of translations being made in the sixteenth century.
What is the protestant reformation?
500
In 1535 this person published the first complete English Bible.
Who is Miles Cloverdale?
500
Name 3 Bible published in the 20th and 21st Centuries and give a one sentence description for each!
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