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1. QUESTION: What is a codex?
ANSWER: A codex is an ancient manuscript book compiled and by, what was
used as a writing material such as papyrus but also some parchment may have
been used. It was much easier to read in this matter that a manuscript scroll.
2. QUESTION: What language was the New Testament written in? Why was that language
used?
A. ANSWER: There are various reasons as to why it was needful for the New
Testament to be written in Greek. One is that due to the Babylonian captivity
many of the Jews fail to recall the Hebrew language. This was due to the conquest
of Alexander the Great while the Jews were in captivity and very likely that he
insisted on the Hellenic language (Greek). Not saying that all Jews during the 1st
century didn’t know how to read Hebrew.
B. Another reason why the Greek language was used to translate the New Testament
was that it was the “lingua franca” or the common language of the 1st century
both in commence, and in cultural.
3. QUESTION: What is an autograph?
ANSWER: An autograph is an original manuscripts, the implication of the author’s own
writing, or written by the author. However “copies” of the “autographs” are called
manuscripts, which the denotation is manuscripts, or “manuscrito” written by hand.
Nevertheless, even though we do not have the original autographs, the manuscripts do
not impact the integrity of major doctrines.
4. QUESTION: What is a manuscript? What is its usual abbreviation (Singular and plural)?
A. ANSWER: A manuscript is a copy of an autograph.
B. Its usual abbreviation for a singular manuscript was “MS” and a plural was
MSS.
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5. QUESTION: How many Greek MSS of the NT are in existence today?
ANSWER: There are over 5,830+ plus Greek manuscripts today, and will continue to be
discovered in various libraries.
6. QUESTION: Why can we trust the NT manuscripts even though they had no Masoretes
and no rules for copying and preserving the exactitude of a text?
ANSWER: The transmission of the New Testament can be trusted because we have a
high number of MSS from different periods of history that we can compare one to
another and see where the difference are where the errors are located. In addition to the
Greek and Latin manuscripts there are quotations from the N.T. by church fathers, in
and since the discovery of more manuscripts, some of them only fragments, have added
to the accuracy of the New Testament.
7. QUESTION: What is the approximate percentage of purity of the text of the New
Testament?
ANSWER: A.T. Robertson, the Greek scholar, and others, have carefully evaluated the
evidence and have concluded that the N.T. text is over 99 percent pure, the evidence for
the integrity of the New Testament is outside of a question.
8. QUESTION: Why did critics of the New Testament thought the Gospel of John was written
in the third of fourth century?
ANSWER: The reason that critics of the N.T. believe the Gospel of John was written in
the second to the fourth century is because it has a “high Christology’ which means
Jesus is God, or the divinity of Christ, John 1:1, 14 John 14:9
I and My Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered
them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you
stone Me?” The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for
blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God. John 10:30-33
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9. QUESTION: What is the importance of MSS P52 (John Rylands Papirus)?
ANSWER: MSS P52 is a fragment of the Gospel of John 18:31-33. This creates a
problem with those critics say that the Gospel of John was written probably from the
third or third or fourth century. This is evidence that the Gospel of John was written
100-125 A.D. Hence the Gospel of John is the oldest manuscript that we have.
10. What are three most famous vellum uncial manuscripts?
ANSWER:
1) The Codex Alexandrinus(A)
2) The Codex Vaticanus- (B)
3) The Codex SinaiticusAll of these vellum uncial manuscripts are of great importance, each in its own way, one
was a gift to King Charles 1, and it was able to be saved from the fire of 1731. The Codex
Vaticanus (B) was so heavily guarded, yet Constantine von Tischendorf had such a
hungry for biblical manuscripts that he copied 20 sheets of the Codex Vaticanus. Yet,
after many years it was available to scholars in 1889.
11. Describe the importance of the Vatican manuscript?
ANSWER: The Codex Alexandrinus was a copy of the New Testament from the 400s.
The Codex Vaticanus contained most of the Old Testament and New Testament in Greek.
The Old Testament was the Septuagint or LXX (50+10+10). It is called the Vaticanus
because it is located at the Vatican, hence the reason for its name.
12. QUESTION: Who was scholar that discovered the Sinaitic manuscript and where did he
find it?
ANSWER: The scholar that discovered the Sinaitic (Sinai), the oldest New Testament
manuscript was Constantine Von Tischendorf. He discovered this finding in Mount
Sinai at St Catherine Monastery. When he was describing his life, he calls this finding
“the pearl of all his researches.” With his persistence in his search he was able to
examine the manuscripts, the Septuagint, and the New Testament.
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