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-Scripture attests to its own authority
-OT phrases like "thus says the Lord" indicate equality between the prophet's and God's words
-Narrators refer to God speaking "through" the prophets
-NT: 2 Timothy "All scripture is God-breathed"
-Jesus supports belief in divine origin of scripture
-Historical Witness: The Bible is a reliable historical document
-Prophets as witness: Prophecies stated in the OT come true 1,000 years later in the NT correct
answers Witnesses to the authority of scripture
-Hebrew OT: Torah, prophets, writings
-English OT: Law, history, poetry, prophets
-Hebrew Torah means law which is a better word than law
-Hebrew characterized Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel, and Kings as former prophets
-Protestants label "law" does not describe the fullness of Gen-Deut. correct answers Canonical
divisions of Hebrew/Jewish scriptures and the English/Protestant OT and the
strengths/weaknesses of the division labels
-66 books
-OT 39 books
-OT about 35 different authors, many different genres, covers more than 2,000 years of
Israel/God's history
-NT 27 books
-NT Written by less authors correct answers Characteristics of the Bible, as well as OT and NT
-4 categories divided by theme:
-Law
, -History
-Poetry
-Prophets
-First five books of the Bible are called Torah correct answers Old Testament Divsions
-The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)
-The acts of the apostles (aka history)
-The epistles (or letters) by Paul
-The general epistles (written by Paul and others)
-Revelation (apocalypse of John) correct answers New Testament Divsions
-OT originally passed down orally through generations
-Hebrew scribes preserved text meticulously. They were called "counters" because they counted
the words and letters in sentences
-They also updated the text with spelling/vowels (grammar) correct answers The tendencies in
textual transmission
1). Giving of the book of the Covenant and Decalogue after the Exodus
2). National revival under Josiah
3). Time of the fall of Jerusalem and Exile in Babylon
4). During reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah correct answers Periods of OT transmission
Most of our knowledge of the Hebrew text in the early period comes from Dead Sea Scrolls
correct answers Significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls
-Group of scribes
-They added vowels to the Hebrew text