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The first list of books that corresponded exactly to the twenty-seven books of the modern New Testament appeared in the ___________________. |
| | A) | first century C.E. |
| | B) | second century C.E. |
| | C) | third century C.E. |
| | D) | fourth century C.E. |
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The word "canon" is derived from the Greek term kanon, which means "godly." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were given these four titles by the early church because these books could be associated somehow with _______________, whom Jesus of Nazareth had called to be his close followers. |
| | A) | apostles |
| | B) | priests |
| | C) | prophets |
| | D) | rabbis |
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The Muratorian Canon is one example of a composite gospel, containing stories gleaned from all four of the canonical Gospels. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In writing about the composition of the New Testament canon, this early church historian divided Christian books into three different categories: acknowledged, disputed, and rejected. |
| | A) | Clement of Alexandria |
| | B) | Jerome |
| | C) | Alexander the Great |
| | D) | Eusebius |
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From the earliest days of the Christian Church, there was almost universal agreement about the contents of the Christian canon. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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This prominent member of the Roman Church advocated that Christians abandon the Hebrew canon of Scriptures and replace it with a carefully edited version of the Gospel of Luke and Paul's letters. |
| | A) | Paul |
| | B) | Marcion |
| | C) | Jerome |
| | D) | Athanasius |
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The movement known as ________________ advocated that persons achieved salvation by attaining special, spiritual "knowledge" about heavenly truths that are denied to the average person. |
| | A) | Ebionism |
| | B) | Gnosticism |
| | C) | Sabellianism |
| | D) | Arianism |
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One of the two main purposes for the evolution of the early Christian canon was to help clarify what beliefs early church leaders considered true and acceptable. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible was known as the __________________. |
| | A) | Vulgate. |
| | B) | Diatessaron. |
| | C) | Septuagint. |
| | D) | Muratorian Canon. |
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The oldest copy of any New Testament book is a small fragment from a copy of the Gospel of John. It is usually dated around _____________, or only twenty to thirty years after the Gospel of John was written. |
| | A) | 125 C.E. |
| | B) | 367 C.E. |
| | C) | 450 C.E. |
| | D) | 550 C.E. |
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The oldest complete copies of the New Testament, including ____________________, survived in part because they were written on animal skin rather than papyrus. |
| | A) | Tatian's Diatessaron |
| | B) | Jerome's Vulgate |
| | C) | Codex Sinaiticus |
| | D) | the Septuagint |
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Early Christians pioneered the use of the _____________, a type of book construction that featured binding on one edge in the manner of the modern bound book. |
| | A) | majuscule |
| | B) | codex |
| | C) | parchment |
| | D) | scroll |
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Some of the most important codex editions of the New Testament, such as the Codex Sinaiticus, are known as ______________ or majuscules because they were written in all-capital letters. |
| | A) | lectionaries |
| | B) | uncials |
| | C) | minuscules |
| | D) | parchments |
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Most of the 5000 ancient manuscript copies of the New Testament are exactly alike. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The first person to translate the entire Bible from the Latin into English was ________________. |
| | A) | Desiderius Erasmus. |
| | B) | James I. |
| | C) | William Tyndale. |
| | D) | John Wycliffe. |
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The first English Bible translator to work directly from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts was __________________. |
| | A) | Desiderius Erasmus. |
| | B) | James I. |
| | C) | William Tyndale. |
| | D) | John Wycliffe. |
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The King James Bible is by far the most popular English Bible of all time. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The invention of the printing press was an important event that helped assure the widespread availability of the Bible in English. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The ____________________ is a very popular Bible translation that was produced in the 1970s and that reflects a generally conservative Protestant viewpoint. |
| | A) | King James Version (KJV) |
| | B) | New American Bible (NAB) |
| | C) | Scholars Version (SV) |
| | D) | New International Version (NIV) |
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