New Testament CH 1-2 Review

Infallible

The Bible is ———— in content.

Intertestamental period

400 silent years between the Testaments

Jesus Christ

Main theme of the Bible

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

The Gospels

Acts

History

Paul’s Epistles

Romans, I/II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, I/II Thessalonians, I/II Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

General Epistles

Hebrew, James, I/II Peter, I/II/III John, and Jude

Prophecy

Revelations

Autographs

The original writings

Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek

Three languages of the Bible

Canon of holy scripture

Books and epistles selected by the church fathers, standard or criteria

Jerome

Latin Vulgate Bible

John Wycliffe

1378 - Wycliffe’s New Testament in English

Erasmus

1516 - Greek New Testament edition or Textus Receptus

William Tyndale

1526 - English New Testament

Miles Coverdale

Completed Tyndale’s work; 1535 - First complete English Bible

John Rogers/Thomas Matthew

1537 - Matthew’s Bible, martyred during Queen Mary’s reign

1539 - ‘Great’ Bible

large in size, setup upon every Church door, chained to the pulpit to prevent theft

1560 - Geneva Bible

First complete translation into English from Hebrew, first to use Roman type

The Bishop’s Bible

translated with the encouragement of the Archbishop of Canterbury and approved by the church, never won the hearts of the people like the Geneva Bible

Authorized Version (AV) or King James Version (KJV) or Textus Receptus or Recieved Text

completed in 1611 - nine-tenths the work of Tyndale, King James Stuart of Scotland, Puritans, translated from Erasmus’s Greek New Testament, accuracy and beauty of diction surpassed all previous translations

Biblical English

not used on ordinary occasions even by the translators who produced the King James Version

Masoretic Hebrew text

Hebrew text translated from

Johan Gutenberg

invented the printing press, 1456 - first printed Bible