1.
Apostolic authorship: most important criterion for determining which books were included in NT canon
2.
Canon: the books accepted by the church to serve as the standard of judging proper christian belief and conduct, yardstick standard
3.
Erasmus: a catholic humanist, edited the first published Greek NT in 1516 which became known as the Textus Receptus
4.
How to decide between manuscripts...: preference goes to: the reading found in the oldest and most carefully copied manuscripts, the most difficult reading, the shortest reading (except for accidental omissions)
5.
How we got the NT: Step #1: God gave the NT writers the inspired Word of God
6.
How we got the NT: Step #2: Christians wrote copies of the different books of the NT
7.
How we got the NT: Step #3: the church identified the books that should be included in the canon of the NT
8.
How we got the NT: Step #4: The Greek NT began to be printed instead of copied
9.
How we got the NT: Step #5: The NT was translated into english
10.
Inspiration: God guided the human writers of the Bible so that what they wrote was the Word of God
11.
Jesus' answer to the question of authority...: points to the OT, His own teaching, and the teachings of the apostles
12.
John Wycliffe: translated the Bible from latin to english 1382
13.
Lectionaries: includes scripture readings from NT, organized according to how they were read in the church calendar, books used in church worship
14.
Marcion: middle of 2nd century, heretic who taught that the God of the OT and the God of Jesus were two different Gods, first to come up with the idea of a set canon of christian books but it only included some of paul's epistles and a chopped up copy of luke's gospel
15.
Minuscule Manuscripts: written on parchment in small or cursive letters, from 10th to 15th century
16.
Origen: early 3rd century, a well known church father who encouraged believers to think through the limits of the canon
17.
Papyri Manuscripts: written on papyrus (made out of a reed plant from delta river), come from 2nd to 4th century
18.
Uncial Manuscripts: written on parchment in capital letters without spaces, from the 4th to 9th century
19.
William Tyndale: first translation of the NT from greek to english in 1525, executed before he could finish the OT