Communication
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
What was Jesus' main message?
3000BCE, wheeled carts were used mostly for this.
What is war?
Period of relative peace from 27BCE to 180CE
What is Pax Roman/Peace of Rome?
His music, due to its complexity and beauty, is opening doors to the Gospel in Japan.
Who is Bach?
The study of ancient New Testament manuscripts.
What is textual criticism?
Symbols that represented objects pressed into wet clay.
What are pictographs?
Well-paved and relatively straight.
Who is Nero?
The most translated and viewed film of all time.
What is The Jesus Film?
6000
The approximate number of Greek New Testament manuscripts that we currently have.
Allowed writers to communicate concepts by adding phonograms
What is cuneiform
This kind of presence on the roads made traveling safer.
What is Roman military presence?
Augustus Caesar
Who is the first Roman Emperor?
If the Gospel writers had made up Jesus or embellished a historical person, then this is the expectation of Jesus' impact on history.
What is a minimal/small/isolated impact of Jesus on history?
Spelling differences, word order changes, omissions, additions are called this.
What are textual variants?
The alphabet the Romans adopted and taught the world to read and write with.
What is the Etruscan alphabet?
250,000
What is the number of miles of roads the Romans built?
Rome allowed conquered peoples to continue their worship of their god(s). This was different than previous empires in history.
What is Roman religious tolerance?
The type of structure mastered by early church builders.
What are domes?
The origin or history of a manuscript or artifact.
What is provenance?
What is the Phoenician alphabet?
The year the major route that connected East and West was available to travel.
What is 130BCE?
The year that widespread persecution of Christians began.
What is 64AD?
The three groups of early writers who wrote about Jesus.
Who are Christians, non-Christians who liked Jesus, and non-Christians who did not like Jesus?
How a manuscript was copied, circulated and preserved is called this.
What is transmission history?
The material used for communication that was safer and easier to travel with. It was made from reeds on the Nile.
What is papyrus?
The building of bridges, tunnels and viaducts advanced during this period of development.
What is the building of Roman roads?
Language used for trade and civic interactions for the Roman Empire.
What is koine Greek?
The Great Commission of Jesus to his followers, which included the command to teach others, led to this Fallout.
What is the educational fallout?
The study of ancient handwriting that helps date manuscripts and where it was written.
What is paleography?
Allowed for greater expression and complexity of thought. Symbols stood for vowels and syllables.
What are phonograms?
The development of this road enabled trade between the East and West.
What is the Silk Road?
How Christianity was initially viewed by Rome.
What is a sect of Judaism?
What is the scientific fallout?
Ancient form of biography where the writers sought to provide an accurate portrayal of the subject.
What is the genre of the Gospels?