Bible 1
How Many Books are in the Bible?
66
How many books are in the Old Testament
39
How many books are in the New Testament?
27
How many authors wrote the Bible?
40
The Bible was written over a period of how many years?
1,500
Who wrote Revelation? and in what year?
John in 90 AD
What language was most of the Old Testament written in?
Hebrew
Who wrote Genesis? And in what year?
Moses 1,400 BC
Anything strange in a book that would make it outside the Canon of the Bible was called?
apocrapha
What was the name of both the plant and the paper product called?
Where did they find this?
papyrus
The Nile River
What does the Canon of the Bible refer to?
The Canon of the Bible refers to the books that have been considered to be the inspired word of God
When was the Old Testament Canon closed?
After the book of Malachi was written in 430 BC
The Bible classifies people into two groups
Jews and Gentiles
What language was most of the New Testament written in?
Greek
The Bible was originally written in what three languages?
Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek
Describe how they made papyrus
They cut it down from the river, next they cut strips, they hammered it out flat, soaked it in water to bring the sugar content down, they weaved the pieces together, and then let it dry
What translation was a word for word translation that tries to be both readable and accurate?
ESV
What was the name for a person who meticulously copied one manuscript to another?
scribe
What translation was very readable , written in modern conversational language?
NLT
A thought for thought translation popular for both church and personal study?
NIV
Tell me 4 things they looked at when looking if a book made the Biblical Canon
1. Did it contain consistency of doctrine
2. Did the book bear evidence of high moral and spiritual values that would reflect the work of the Holy Spirit?
3. was the book being accepted by the Body of Christ at large?
4. was it written by an apostle or someone closely related to an apostle
Tell me one book that was not included in our Canon, and why it was excluded?
up to Mrs. Smith
Tell me the verse 1 Peter 3:15
Mrs. Smith will listen and decide
What does inerrancy of scripture mean?
If God inspired the Bible then it must be 100 percent true
The Bible tells us of things that have happened in the past ________________ things that are happening now_________________and things that will happen in the future _______________.
history
current events
prophecy