bsm what is the bible

What is the Bible according to the Bible?

sacred /holy, God-breathed, human and divine product

What is not the Bible?

Not an end in itself not a law book

what is dynamic theory?

God inspired thoughts or ideas of the human authors but the word choice was left up to them

What is verbal Plenary Theory?

God inspired the whole text of the Bible and every word is there by God’s design and oversight

What is dictation theory?

God audibly spoke (or dictated) the specific words he wanted the human authors to write down

protestant canon

• 39 books

• divided into 4 parts

• law

• history

• wisdom

• prophets

hebrew canon

• 24 books

• divided into 3 parts

• Torah law

• nevi’im prophets

• ketuvim writings

protestants didn’t add the apocrypha why?

• it was not important enough for the comprehension of the bible

• goes against many teachings of the prophets such as Moses

transmission

process of how scripture was copied down/written

translation

the process of translating words or text from one language into another.

canonization

the process by which the books of the Bible were discovered as authoritative

scribes

a member of a learned class in ancient Israel through New Testament times studying the Scriptures and serving as copyists, editors, teachers, and jurists

manuscript

handwritten doc usually in reference to smth ancient

codex

A script that is a book mainly a scripture, classics or ancient.

scroll

long sheet of paper/papyrus with writing on one side

papyrus

material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting

parchment

an animal skin which has been prepared for writing or printing

apocrypha

Jewish writing from 300 B.C - 100 A.D that were widely read in both Jewish and Christian communities

dead sea scrolls

most of the old testament books (except Esther) proved the bible existed; found in the Qumran caves; manuscripts of the OT

codex vaticanus 300 AD

• most important witness of NT

• contains almost all OT and NT

• oldest manuscript of Greek bible

• codex of 759 leaves of vellum

• vatican library in rome

Septuagint

• bible of apostles and early church

• we have thousands of manuscripts of this

Codex Alexandrinus

a fifth-century manuscript of the Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Septuagint and the New Testament; in athos

Codex Sinaiticus 350 AD

• abt half the Greek OT

• complete NT

• oldest complete manuscript of NT

• scattered mostly in london tho

masoretic text 500-1000 AD

• kept a tally of the number of letters; added footnotes to the hard parts to understand of the text

• lennigrand codex