Christian Scriptures

Jewish Old testament is called ?

The Torah

The Torah is

Law and instructions

Ivevi’im is

Prophets

Ketuvim

Writings

How many books in the Bible

Protestant: 66 Catholic:73 Orthodox:81

Cannon

Refers to a measure, rod, ruler, or reed. “ whats in and what’s out”

heretic

a person believing in or practicing religious heresy.

How many authentic Gospels ?

only four authentic Gospels

How do we tell if it's a Gospel

They are written by Jesus true followers - irendeus 2nd century

Who has a clear list of all 27 books in the new testament

Athanasius of Alexandria 4th century

Diatessaron

thought the four gospels/ a mash up of all four gospels

Muratorian cannon

A list of all the books of the new testament, some have more books that are not included in our Bible

What are the names of the books we talked about in class that did not make the cannon?

Gnostics, christology, Heresy/Heretical, Anti- judiasim literatiure, The Didache and Martyrdom stories

Gnostics

Split from the mainstream of Christianity and formed their own gospels “gospel of Mary, Peter philip” and were rejected on theological grounds

Christiology

Reflection on who Jesus was specially in relationship to God

Heresy/Heretical

Deviation from orthodoxy, they wrote reflections about God deemed to be false by the early church

Anti-Judiasim literature

Books in the first and second century that speak negatively against Judaism

The Didache

Never claims to be scripture but is a book containing a set of rules from the early church and orders on how Christians should live

Martyrdom

Greek word for witness

How was it determined what became our new testament

The holy spirit guided the work- scripture bears witness to who and what and what works Jesus did, it was popular amongsu