11 Questions
According to the text, the New Testament consists of how many books?
27 books
When was the 27-book New Testament first formally canonized?
393 AD
Who is credited with using the phrase 'New Testament' to describe a collection of Christian Greek scriptures?
Tertullian
Who are the Four Evangelists mentioned in the text?
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Which term is used to describe the collection of Christian writings in Eusebius' Hist. Eccl.?
Covenanted books
According to the New Oxford Annotated Bible, scholars generally agree that the Gospels were written forty to sixty years after the death of Jesus. They thus do not present eyewitness or contemporary accounts of Jesus's life and teaching.
Luke claims to have retrieved eyewitness testimony and traveled with Paul the Apostle.
Who was the first author to explicitly name the canonical gospels?
Irenaeus of Lyon
What does the word 'gospel' mean in Old English?
Good news
What does the word 'testament' in the expression 'New Testament' refer to according to the text?
A new covenant that completes or fulfills the Mosaic covenant.
What is the original Hebrew word for 'covenant'?
Brit
Why did the translators of the Septuagint choose the term 'diatheke' to translate the Hebrew word 'brit'?
To emphasize the characteristics of a 'will left after death' in the reinterpretation of the Old Testament covenant.
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