Bible History Master List Day 1 Classroom Rules and Regulations and Class Procedures ot – 1 Creation of the Modern Bible Bible

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  Derived from the Greek Biblia (books)
  

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  The formation of the Canon was a process, not an event
  

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  The criteria for selecting the books of the OT was not known
  

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  The criteria for the selection of the NT books revolved around the “apostolicity” of the early church writers
  

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  It took several hundred years to reach finality in all parts of the Roman empire
  

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  There are 22 letters in the Hebrew language – not one of them is a vowel
  

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  In many of the ancient texts, all the consonants are strung together, with no spaces between the words
  

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  Hebrew is read from right to left
  

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  The language is more than 3,500 years
  

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  Aramaic was the chief Semitic language of the Persian Empire
  

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  It became the common language of the Jews after the exile
  

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  From that time they started translating the Old Testament into Aramaic
  

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  In New Testament times Aramaic was the language all Jewish boys and girls spoke at home
  

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  It was the language of Jesus and the Disciples