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1 About two centuries later at the time of ________ and Lactantius, the phrase was being used to designate a particular collection of books that some believed embodied this new covenant.

2 In the US, ________ is commonly rejected by fundamentalists who put stronger emphasis on a literal interpretation of Genesis.

3 The ________ has a fondness for paraphrase and is generally the longest.

4 ________ - Pauline authorship is rejected by modern scholarship[9][10][11], and even in antiquity its authorship was debated.

5 For example, in Against ________ book 3,[18] chapter 14, he wrote:

6 Christian scholars such as Professor Peter Stoner see the Bible having compelling and detailed fulfilled ________ and argue for the Bible's inspiration.

7 New Testament Byzantine Greek Original Side by side with the English (King James) and Russian (Synodal) translation - Commentary by the Greek Fathers - Icons from ________

8 The dominant view among non-theologian scholars is the ________.

9 It includes many writings unfavourable to the position of the orthodoxy, such as ________ writing.

10 The Gospel of Matthew, traditionally ascribed to the Apostle Matthew, son of Alphaeus according to Papias, (see the ________) Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus and Eusebius.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • many of the earliest known copies of the New Testament are remains of papyrus books from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt (papyrus pictured)?
  • leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, for 25 years?
  • between 1836 and 1846, the Congregationalist missionary Edward Stallybrass, who had proselytized in Siberia, published translations of the Old and the New Testament into Mongolian?
  • although the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus (pictured) is sitting at the right hand of God the Father, the New Testament also depicts him as standing and walking?
  • the Calvinist philosopher and New Testament scholar Vern Poythress argues that mathematics is the rhyme of the universe?
  • the New Testament's "camel passing through the eye of a needle" is an example of adynaton, an extreme form of hyperbole used to imply impossibility?
  • the phrase "peace on earth, good will to men" derives from the Annunciation to the shepherds (pictured), but reflects a dispute over a single letter in the Greek text of the New Testament?
  • the Codex Carolinus is one of very few Gothic fragments of the New Testament on parchment that has survived to the present day?
  • the United Bible Society and Norwegian Protestant Mission have provided a New Testament in the Khassonké language for the Malian commune Tomora?
  • according to some scholars, Christ's agony at Gethsemane was added to the New Testament to counter docetism?
  • Professor Ernst von Dobschütz (pictured) expanded the list of New Testament manuscripts?
  • Minuscule 714, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also a fragment of Sentences of Peter Lombard?
  • Lectionary 232, a manuscript of the New Testament, was variously dated in the past?
  • Lectionary 226 of the New Testament, in some parts is a palimpsest, contains lessons from the Old Testament?
  • Minuscule 715, the manuscript of the New Testament, contains also extracts of Eulogius of Alexandria and of Hesychius?
  • Papyrus 110, a Greek manuscript copy of the Gospel of Matthew from the New Testament, may have been composed as early as the 3rd century?
  • Vangjel Meksi was the first to translate the New Testament into the Albanian language?
  • Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University, and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy?
  • Papyrus 45 may have been one of the earliest manuscripts to collect more than one New Testament genre into a single codex?
  • Codex Vaticanus 2061, a double palimpsest, contains some parts of the New Testament, homilies of several authors, and Strabon's Geographica?
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