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Who Wrote the Bible Part 2

Act VII Godspell

  1. What empire ruled Judea at the time of Jesus?
  1. What are the parts of the New Testament “library”?
  1. What language were the books of the New Testament written in?
  1. About when was the Gospel of Mark written?
  1. What is the issue with knowing who actually authored the Four Gospels?
  1. What is the oldest fragment of the New Testament ever found?
  1. What tells us that the Gospel of Mark may have been written in a foreign country?
  1. What does the term “Synoptic Gospel” mean?
  1. What is the “Q” source?

Act VIII: A New Testament Emerges

  1. Who wrote almost half of the New Testament? What is his importance?
  1. What did Paul do as he travels?
  1. How were Paul’s letters written?
  1. Which is the most controversial book in the New Testament?
  1. Who might the author John have been?
  1. What did Marcian’s list of books include and not include?
  1. What books got a “free ride” into the New Testament?
  1. What is the Apocrypha? Why weren’t they included in the Hebrew Bible?
  1. How is the Catholic Bible different from Jewish and Protestant Bibles?
  1. What happened at the Council of Nicea?

Act IX: Out of the Past

  1. Why was the finding of the “Wisdom of Ben Sirach” important?
  1. What was found in Egypt at Nag Hammadi?
  1. Why did the Gnostics (yes, that’s spelled correctly)have to go into hiding?
  1. What Gospel was found as part of the Gnostic writings?
  1. How is that gospel different from the other gospels?

Act X: Emergence

  1. What does Jerome of Dalmatia do? What was it called?
  1. In 300 CE, where does the Roman capital relocate to under Constantine?
  1. What was the main material for writing on in the ancient world?
  1. What was the Aleppo codex?
  1. What kind of codex was kept at St. Catherine’s monastery?
  1. Who copied the oldest Bibles by hand?
  1. How did the Bible get in the hands of the common man?
  1. What does Martin Luther “usher in”? What does he do to the Bible?
  1. When did the Bible first appear in English?
  1. What did Tyndale base his translation on? What was it eventually incorporated into?
  1. Who commissioned the “Geneva Bible or the “Bible of the People”?

Act XI: Mystical Text

  1. What is a belief about Hebrew to many Jewish people?
  1. What specifically is required when a new Torah is commissioned?
  1. What is one Mystical beliefs about the Torah as a whole (hint: deals with a name)?
  1. What do Mystics believe about the Hebrew letters?
  1. How do numbers relate to Hebrew letters? How is it used my Mystics?
  1. What percentage of words in the Hebrew Bible are disputed?

Act XII: Living Words

  1. The question is often not “Who wrote the Bible?” but…
  1. Why is the Bible still relevant today?
  1. Why can scholarship help people who have faith in the Bible?
  1. What prediction does the documentary make about the future of the Bible?