Unit 2: Vocab

Transmission

Process of how Scriptures were written or copied down

Translation

Translating Bible into other languages

Canonization

Process of recognizing book of Bible as authentic

Scribe

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

Manuscript

Written by hand, not typed

Codex

In book form, ancient manuscript

Scroll

Roll of paper used for writing

Papyrus

Ancient materials made from the papyrus plant

Parchment

Writing material made from animal skin

Apocrypha

Set of books not included in the canon

Dead Sea Scrolls

Jewish manuscripts found over 10 years

Codex Vaticanus

It’s the oldest set of Greek manuscripts of the entire Bible and it is named after where it is currently stored

Septuagint

Greek Bible translated from Hebrew by 72 people

Codex Alexandrinus

A fifth-century manuscript of the whole Greek Bible that gets its name from where the manuscript was produced

Codex Sinaiticus

This manuscript was discovered at St. Catherine’s monastery by the scholar Tischendorf and is currently divided among four different countries

Masoretic Text

Jewish canon (24 books)