Study Guide Bibl110

Study Guide: Module/Week 1

Derived from the course text book, The Essence of the New Testament: A Survey (2012),

and the New Testament documents.

Chapter 1: How We Got the New Testament

1. How many documents does the New Testament consist (1)?

2. The New Testament was written approximately between AD ____ and ____ (1).

3. What materials were the New Testament documents written upon (1)?

4. What are the original New Testament document called (1, 2)?

5. What is a codex in reference to the early New Testament writings (2)?

6. What is the name of the Latin codex collection (2)?

7. In the study of the New Testament, to what does the term canon refer (2)?

8. What three languages did God choose as the media for his self-revelation (2)?

9. The Old Testament was primarily written in ______ (2).

10. Parts of the Old Testament were written in ______ (2).

11. The New Testament was written in ______ ______(2).

12. ______ ______was the language of the common people during the first century AD (2).

13. Why do you think God allowed the autographs to vanish (3)?

14. In spite of the absence of the autographs, approximately 5,000 Greek manuscripts and an additional 13,000 fragments of the New Testament documents exist, providing significant manuscript evidence for New Testament scholars (3).

15. Motivators for canonizing the New Testament include the heretic ________ and the heretical movement, __________ (3).

16. Marcion was a _____________ who held a negative view of God as presented in the Old Testament (3).

17. Marcion rejected the Old Testament and as a consequence, he only accepted the Gospel according to Luke and ten Pauline epistles (3).

18. ____________ was a movement that developed in the second century. This heretical movement believed that salvation was found in attaining “special knowledge” (3).

19. Why are Marcion and Gnosticism so important in relation to a New Testament canon...