Deck 1: What Is the Bible

Question 1

In Jewish tradition, what are the three major divisions of the Hebrew Bible? What are the characteristics of the books found in each of these divisions? Describe the processes that led to the canonization of each of these components.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Compare the Jewish and Christian canons of the Old Testament. How do they differ? What are the reasons for the differences in the order and content of these collections?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What is involved in the process of textual criticism and what is the goal of the textual critic? What role has it played in scholars' efforts to translate the Bible?

Answer 3

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Question 4

To what does the term "the Bible" refer? What problems arise in trying to define "the Bible"?

Question 5

All the books in the Hebrew Bible were accepted as canonical at the same time.

Question 6

The Hebrew Bible includes all of the writings that the Israelites produced.

Question 7

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, was also the first book of the Bible to be written.

Question 8

The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Bible produced by an unknown individual.

Question 9

The Latter Prophets are the books named after individual prophets.

Question 10

Both the Jewish and Christian canons put the books of the Hebrew Bible in the same order.

Question 11

The books of the Apocrypha are not included as a part of the Jewish canon because they were hidden from early Jewish communities.

Question 12

The books of the Hebrew Bible were separated into chapters and verses in ancient times.

Question 13

The Torah was probably the first division of the Bible to gain canonical status.

Question 14

The Dead Sea Scrolls provide evidence for a fixed canon already in the first century CE.

Question 15

In Jewish tradition, all are parts of the Bible except:

A) Torah
B) Apocrypha
C) Writings
D) Prophets

Question 16

Which book is not a part of the Torah?

A) Exodus
B) Deuteronomy
C) Joshua
D) Numbers

Question 17

The thirty-nine books that make up the Jewish Tanakh and that are also included in all Christian versions of the Old Testament are known as:

A) the Hebrew Bible
B) the Pseudepigrapha
C) the Writings
D) Chronicles

Question 18

During the _______________, the Bible was first divided into chapters.

A) Middle Ages
B) Reformation
C) Roman period
D) Hellenistic period

Question 19

The Former Prophets begin with the divine appointment of ______________ as
Leader of Israel.

A) Moses
B) Saul
C) David
D) Joshua

Question 20

In the Tanakh the book of ____________ is found in the Writings, but in the
Christian canon it follows the book of Judges.

A) Ruth
B) Job
C) Psalms
D) Proverbs

Question 21

In the Christian canon the book of ______________ was moved from the
Writings to the Latter Prophets.

A) Job
B) Isaiah
C) Esther
D) Daniel

Question 22

After the Protestant Reformation in the ________ century, the Apocrypha was
Excluded from Protestant Bibles.

A) 16th
B) 5th
C) 14th
D) 8th

Question 23

The word torah means:

A) book
B) law
C) history
D) prophet

Question 24

The distinction between the Minor Prophets differ from the Major Prophets is primarily based on ___________.

A) date
B) theological value
C) length
D) theme

Question 25

For a book to be canonical in Jewish tradition, it must be written in:

A) Greek
B) Aramaic
C) Yiddish
D) Hebrew

Question 26

The distinction between the Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets is primarily based on____________:

A) date
B) theological value
C) length
D) genre

Question 27

Which book is found in the Apocrypha?

A) Ezekiel
B) Nahum
C) Malachi
D) 1 Maccabees

Question 28

The _____________________ is a category of noncanonical Jewish literature from the Hellenistic and Roman periods attributed to famous biblical characters.

A) Apocrypha
B) Prophets
C)Pseudepigrapha
D) Writings

Question 29

The Council of ____________ in 1546 decreed that all forty-six books of the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha, were canonical and equally authoritative.

A) Nicaea
B) Trent
C) Ephesus
D) Constantinople

Question 30

Most scholars identify the ____________ as the group for whom the Dead Sea Scrolls served as a library.

A) Romans
B) Sadducees
C) Essenes
D) Pharisees

Question 31

According to legend, ___________ translators of the Torah independently produced identical translations and thus proved that the Septuagint was as inspired as the original.

A) 60
B) 70
C) 600
D) 700

Question 32

The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, ___________, and Greek.

A) Arabic
B) Ugaritic
C) Akkadian
D) Aramaic

Question 33

Scholars use ____________ criticism to account for the editorial processes that produced the biblical texts.

A) redaction
B) form
C) historical
D) Textual

Question 34

The earliest manuscripts for the Hebrew Bible date from the ___________ century BCE.

A) fourth
B)third
C)second
D)first

Question 35

The technical term for the official list of books comprising the Bible by a religious community is _________________.

Question 36

The frequently used acronym for the Jewish Bible is _________________.

Question 37

_________________, ____________________, and ________________ are the three major divisions of the Old Testament.

Question 38

The _________________ was published in 1611 as the culmination of the work of dozens of translators over seven years.

Question 39

The Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther are collectively known as the five _______________.

Question 40

The _______________ Text is the stabilized version of the Hebrew Bible that eventually became the standard version.

Question 41

___________________ involves examining the evidence from thousands of ___________________, or hand copies of the Bible, to determine the earliest form of a text.

Question 42

The books of the ____________________ are also designated "Deuterocanonical."

Question 43

The _________________ is the Christian term for the books of the Jewish Bible.

Question 44

According to ancient Jewish tradition _________________ wrote the Torah.