Number 9 Flashcards
Skeptics and false religions had long claimed that in the centuries of copying and re-copying, the text of the Old Testament had sustained so many mistakes, errors, and revisions as to make it completely unreliable
True
The discovery of the dead Sea scrolls has silenced this charge. Here was a classic test for the liberal charges. Had our Bible change through time due to copying? A comparison of these manuscripts with our oldest copies of the Old Testament revealed that the copying process was incredibly an absolutely accurate.
True
_____ ______ translated the first whole English Bible
John Wycliffe
______ _______ flooded England with the first printed New Testaments
William Tyndale
What version was the first English version to divide the text into verses
The Geneva version
What was the first English version to omit the Apocrypha?
The Geneva version
What version was the most loved Bible of the common people and went through over 160 editions
The Geneva version
This version was translated in Geneva, Switzerland, during the vicious persecution by Mary Tudor in England. It was translated by William Whittingham, brother-in-law to John Calvin.
The Geneva version
This version was the Bible of John Bunyan, Shakespeare, and the pilgrims of the Mayflower
The Geneva version
This version of the Bible is undoubtedly, the most beloved, beautiful, and popular English translation of all time! it was also probably the only translation in which no parties involved had an ax to grind. The goal was to produce a nonsectarian Bible to unite the Christians of England. The stress was therefore on accuracy, not promoting a certain doctrine viewpoint. The scholarship of its translators is also beyond all dispute. It is still considered the height of English literature.
King James Version
What year was the King James Version introduced
AD 1611
The translation work of the King James version was actually done by_____ scholars divided into six groups, working at Westminster, Cambridge and Oxford
47
Each translator’s work was examined by every member of his committee. Each committees work was then examined by all of the other committees. This degree of scholarship and I’ve cross examination of every translators work by all other translators has never been duplicated since what version is this
King James
The King James version rest on Greek text compile by_____, also known as the ______ ______ or _______ _____. This is based upon the _________ text or ______ Text of the New Testament
Erasmus- Textus Receptus or Received Text
Traditional text or Majority Text
It was also produced, With the former translations diligently, compared and revised! The translators avail themselves to and built upon the scholarship which had produced the bishops Bible, Tyndale, Matthews, and Coverdale‘s versions, the great Bible and the Geneva Bible
King James
Re-printing took place to fine-tune the accuracy of the king James version in the years 1629, 1638, 1762, and 1769. Changes were minor in nature and only concerned such details as updating from Gothic to Roman type setting, printing errors, and updated spelling.
True
The KJV was translated from the ______ Text, a body of over_______ Greek manuscripts. This was indisputably the accepted standard Greek text for almost all Bibles from the 400s to the late 1800s in early 1900s.
Majority— 5300
Two distinct families of Greek text or text types had already come into existence by the 300s. Scholars are generally agreed that most corruption of the text occurred during the first 100 years after the originals were written (primarily produced purposely by heretics like diagnostics or Marcion) The Christian churches of these early centuries, examined both of these text families and came to the firm conclusion that one should be rejected as corrupt while the other was the_______ impure word of God, accurately, reflecting the originals
Preserved
All Greek texts, and practically all translations into other languages were based upon this text
Majority text
Other titles for majority text include______ text, _________ text, the _______ text
Receive text, traditional text, and the Byzantine text
The king James version was therefore based upon what had been the accepted Greek text for over_____ years of Christian history. Assuming that the church fathers were indeed correct that this was the preserved word of God, then this text reflected all._____ Years of church history before the King James Bible was introduced in 1611
1200 - 1500
In the late _______, the Greek text unquestionably accepted by true churches, since at least the 300s was challenged by those who argued that, since Codexes Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus predated most of the extant Greek manuscripts of the standard or majority text, then they should be accepted as superior
1800s
The ______ Text are thus a very small number(primarily just____) of older manuscripts, some of which have been discovered since the translation of the king James version. These text were incomplete and have as much or more disagreement between themselves as they do with the majority text.
Minority- 3
In the debate of which manuscript is superior the majority text or the minority text, if the______ texts are correct or inferior, then so are all the modern translations based on these text
Minority
