The Book of Books
This word comes from Greek and simply means "the books."
What is the Bible?
In the first creation story, this is how God makes everything.
What is by speaking?
Genesis 3:1 calls the serpent the most this of all the wild animals God had made — but never once calls it Satan.
What is crafty?
God calls Abraham out of "Ur of the Chaldeans," which is a city that is in this region.
What is Mesopotamia?
Jacob wrestles all night at the Jabbok River and walks away with this new name.
What is Israel?
This is the name of the Jewish Bible. It's an acronym, and its "T" stands for Torah.
What is the Tanakh?
The first creation story is organized into this many days.
What is seven?
Asked where his murdered brother is, Cain answers with this question of his own.
What is "Am I my brother's keeper?"
These are the three promises God makes to Abram in Genesis 12
What are land, descendants, and blessing?
Joseph's brothers do this to him, which is how he ends up in Egypt in the first place.
What is sell him into slavery?
This is the term for the official list of texts that function as Scripture in a given tradition.
What is the canon?
This is the very last thing that happens in the first creation story.
What is God resting on the seventh day?
Genesis 3 never uses the word "sin." What the humans actually gain from eating the fruit — and what God confirms at 3:22 — is this.
What is the knowledge of good and evil?
Unable to have a child of her own, Sarah gives Abraham this enslaved Egyptian woman, who becomes the mother of Abraham's first son.
Who is Hagar?
Jacob takes two different things from his brother Esau — one for a bowl of stew, one by disguise.
What are the birthright and the blessing?
Jewish Bibles do not contain this part of the Christian Bible at all.
What is the New Testament?
In the second creation story, God forms the first human out of this, then breathes into his nostrils.
What is the dust of the ground?
Genesis 6 names this as the thing that had filled the earth and brought on the great flood.
What is violence?
Sarah laughs when she hears she will have a son, and the boy ends up with this name, which comes from the Hebrew word for laughter.
What is Isaac?
Jacob's entire family moves down to Egypt as refugees because of this.
What is a famine?
The Old Testament and the Tanakh contain exactly the same books. This is the one thing that is different about them.
What is the arrangement (or the order of the books)?
In the second story, God says it is not good for the man to be alone — and tries this solution first, before making the woman.
What is making the animals?
At Babel the people say "let us make a __________ for ourselves." A few verses later, God promises Abram this exact thing.
What is a name (or great name)?
This is how many words of protest Abraham speaks when God tells him to offer his son as a burnt offering.
What is none?
Joseph is sold, enslaved, and imprisoned, and ends up holding this position in Egypt.
What is second in command over all of Egypt?