Mod 6

Question 1

Dead Sea Scrolls

Answer 1

A collection of manuscripts discovered in the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea written by a Jewish community around the first century AD.

Question 2

Masoretic Text

Answer 2

The Hebrew text of the Old Testament as preserved and marked with vowels by Jewish scholars called the Masoretes.

Question 3

Talmud

Answer 3

The written record of the Jewish oral law (Mishnah) and subsequent commentaries on it (Gemara).

Question 4

Autograph

Answer 4

The original text written by the author.

Question 5

Textual Criticism

Answer 5

The theory and methods of determining earlier forms of a text.

Question 6

Textual Visualization

Answer 6

An occurrence of two manuscripts of the same text are different in wording.