Quiz: Exetgetical Methods 03/22/2006

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I. Part 
Answer all the questions. You will get one point for each correct answer.

  1. How do you write an "h" in Greek? 
  2. Where do you find explanations for the critical marks in the text of the Nestle-Aland edition? 
  3. "Version" is a technical term in text criticism. What does it refer to?
  4. What is the abbreviation in the Nestle-Aland edition of the Greek New Testament for "Praxapostolos"?
  5. Explain the technical term "scriptio continua".

II. Part
Choose two out of the three questions. Each answer can earn you up to 3 points.

  1. Name the two rules of the thumb widely used by scholars on how to discern the older of two text variants.
  2. What is a synchronic approach to literature?
  3. What is the significance of the codex form in Christianity?

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III. Part
Choose one out of the two questions. The correct answer can earn you up to 4 points.

  1. List the four oldest manuscripts, which originally included all four volumes of the New Testament: Name, abbreviation in the apparatus, century, present location.
  2. Structural analysis: How do you proceed?

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