Bible Summative Review

Bible Basics

100

How many languages was the Bible originally written in?

It was written in 3 languages originally.

200

How many books are there in the Bible?

There are 66.

300

What are the six stages of the "Big Story of the Bible"?

1. Creation

2. Fall

3. Israel

4. Jesus

5. Church

6. Restoration

400

How many books are there in the Old and New Testaments?

Old Testament: 39

New Testament:27

500

How many books of prophecy are there in the Old Testament?

There are 17 books of Prophecy.

Genres

100

Name the four genres of the Bible we covered in class.

Narrative; Poetry; Epistle; Gospel 

200

Name two books of the Bible that are considered Narratives. 

Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings,  Ezra, Nehemiah, Luke, Acts, Ruth, Esther

300

What genre is the following verse: 

"Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus..."

It is an Epistle. 

400

What genre is the following verse, and how can you tell?

"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."

This verse is Poetry. 

It uses imagery, personification, and poetic language. 

500

What genre is the following verse?

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

It is from a Gospel book. 

Bible Study Tools

100

Name 3 bible study tools.

- Bible atlas

- Bible dictionary

- Commentary

- Concordance

- Parallel-text Bible

- Study Bible

- Topical Bible

- Word study tools

- Bible encylopedia/handbook

- Bible background books

- Biblical/systematic theologies

200

Which tool is this?

- Alphabetical listing of Bible words with references and verse fragments

Concordance

300

What Bible Study Tool is this? 

-Historical and cultural studies of Biblical places and people groups

Bible encyclopedia/handbook

400

Which Bible Study Tool would you use to answer this question? 

-What does the Bible have to say about alcoholic beverages?

Topical Bible

500

Define what a Bible atlas is.

Maps of Bible lands during biblical times

Translations

100

Who translated old and new testament into Latin, creating the Vulgate?

Jerome!

200

Describe the difference between scrolls and codex.

Scrolls were glued together end to end. Codex were stacks of paper.

300

Name three of the ways in which ancient writers recorded their texts.

They recorded them on clay, rocks, leather or papyrus.

400

Name two translations and the year they were established

We will have a paper to confirm, we don't want to write all of them in this tiny box :)

500

Give the names of three full or partial English Bibles that were published before the King James Version. 

Bede; King Alfred the Great; John Wycliffe; Erasmus; William Tyndale; Miles Coverdale; Great Bible; Geneva Bible; Bishops Bible; Douay-Rheims Bible

Miscellaneous

100

What two categories do Bible scholars divide God's revelation into?

General and Limited.

200

What was the Septugint?

A Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament.

300

What is Mrs. Ereen's Starbucks order

- If no one can answer: What is her favourite color?

Vanilla Cappuccino

- Purple

400

What discovery in in 1947 demonstrated the exceptional accuracy of the Hebrew Scribal tradition? 

The Dead Sea Scrolls

500

Write out the theme verse in NIV, and one thing you like about Alaya. 

But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. 

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Everything about her is lovely <3