Structure
This is another name for the first 5 books of the old testament.
What is the Torah?
This is the reason a prophet was given either "major" or "minor" when referred to in the books.
What is the length of the book?
The word Deutero-canon can be translated to.
What is second canon?
(Protestants will use the word apocrypha meaning hidden)
This group of books is rejected by Protestant denominations, but is included in the Orthodox and Catholic churches.
What is the Apocrypha?
Joseph or Moses
Who is Joseph?
After the final book of the OT, this was the last prophet right before Jesus.
Who is St. John the Baptist?
The Deutero-canonical books are this many in number.
What is 7?
Including the Apocryphal books, this is the total number of books found in the Orthodox OLD Testament
What is 46?
The Book of Judges or King David
Who is King David?
The last of the official Old Testament prophets.
Who is Malachi?
The earliest copies of the septuagint including the deutero-canonical books were found in this language.
What is Greek?
These three books encompass the time the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness before entering the promised land.
Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
It was after this King of Israel that the kingdom split into North and South.
Who is King Solomon?
King Cyrus decreed that all Jews should return to Jerusalem. During this time and after, the temple was rebuilt. The prophets at the time were ___, ___, and ___ (Hint: ZEN)
Zerubabbel, Ezra, and Nehemiah
True or False?
There were only one or two translations of the Old Testament during the time of Jesus.
What is False?
Among the many, are the Targum, Septuagint, Aquilan, Theodotion, and Simmacaus translations
True or False.
The Deutero-canonical books were added many years after Jesus to the end of the Old Testament.
The deutero-canonical books were found in the earliest and most common translation of the Old Testament called the Septuagint
Which of the following nations took over the kingdom of Israel first?
Assyrians
Babylonians
Who are the Assyrians?
Which of the prophets were those that prophesied to the Northern Kingdom of Israel?
Who are Jonah, Amos, and Hosea?
One of the reasons the deutero-canonical books were removed from the Old Testament by Reformation Protestant is.
What is too expensive to print?
OR
What is there was no Hebrew translation found at the time?