Exam 27: Appendix: the Canon and Text of the Bible

The last part of the Jewish canon to be collected and designated authoritative was the

The Kethuvim were largely agreed upon by the second century BC.E

We can know the original words of the Bible for certain.

Which of the following was not a criterion for which books of the New Testament were canonized?

All of the books in the Old Testament were accepted as canonical at the same time.

It is impossible to know how much the text of the Hebrew Bible changed before the first century C.E.

Our earliest New Testament manuscript is a small fragment of the Gospel of John from approximately ___________ C.E.

Some manuscripts of Luke report that when Mary and Joseph found Jesus in the Temple when he was twelve, Mary said, "Your father and I have been searching for you," while others read, "We have been searching for you." Which of these do you think represents the more original passage? Why?

____________ is a term that means "second canon."

Orthodoxy was a primary criterion for the canonization of the New Testament

The ____________ is the stabilized version of the Hebrew Bible that eventually became the standard version.

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

The earliest canon list of all twenty-seven New Testament books is from the late fourth century C.E.

Some books found at Qumran are closer to the text of the Septuagint than to the Masoretic Text.

In what year did Athanasius name the current 27 books of the New Testament as authoritative?

Marcion seems to have collected the first Christian canon.

The deuterocanonical books are typically called the ____________ by Protestants.

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

In the story of the women who find Jesus' tomb empty and are instructed by a young man (or angel) to go tell Peter and the other disciples (Mark 16), the last twelve verses of this story in Mark were

The Dead Sea Scrolls indicate that the Jewish canon was already fixed by the first century C.E.