Religion Chapter 2

What is the earliest surviving manuscript of the New Testament to date?

A fragment of the Gospel of John.

papyrus

A reed-like plant that grows principally around the Nile, whose stalk was used for the manufacture of a paper-like writing surface in antiquity.

By what means have early Christian truth claims been handed down from one generation to the next?

All of the above. (orally, life styles, written)

Textual Criticism

An academic discipline that seeks to establish the original wording of a text based on the surviving manuscripts

Which of the following represents an intentional scribal error?

Changing the text to fit doctrine.

Scribes, Christian

Literate Christians responsible for copying sacred scripture

In the story of Jesus in the last minutes before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:43-44), the account of his "sweating blood" while contemplating his imminent suffering is most likely:

Not an original part of any Gospel.

Who created the verse divisions that we have today?

Robert Stephanus.

What is the style of writing called that leaves out punctuation, capitalization, paragraph divisions, sentence divisions, and spaces between words?

Scriptio continua

New Testament manuscripts do not:

Show a lack of passion for their topics.

What is the name of the academic discipline devoted to the study of ancient manuscripts to determine the most likely earliest readings?

Textual criticism.

Most copies of New Testament manuscripts come from what time period?

The Middle Ages.

Scripto Continua

The ancient practice of writing without using spaces to separate words.

autograph

The original manuscript of a literary text, from a Greek word meaning "the writing itself."

Earlier scribes who copied the New Testament were more precise than later ones (T/F)

false

How many original copies of books of the New Testament do we have?

none

There are more differences between the manuscripts of the New Testament than there are words in the New Testament (T/F)

true

We do not have the original copy of any New Testament book (T/F)

true