Biblical Characters
Who was Amos? (Very basic answer required)
Who is a prophet?
How did Esther become Queen?
What is a beauty pageant?
What is the traditional English translation of the Hebrew word "hevel" in the book of Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes)?
What is “vanity”?
What specific quality of Song of Songs makes it unique from other Biblical texts?
What is celebration of erotic love and intimacy?
What are psalms for the purpose of explaining frustration to God called?
What are complaint psalms or psalms of lament? (only 1 required)
Why did Ruth move?
Why did she stay loyal to her mother in law?
What nation destroyed the temple of Solomon?
What is Babylon?
Why is detecting humor in ancient texts, like the book of Jonah, challenging?
What is difference in humor between cultures?
What writings reaffirm the legitimacy and authority of the Davidic Dynasty?
What are the royal psalms?
What metaphor do Hebrew prophets sometimes employ to describe the relationship between God and his chosen people?
What is marriage/husband and wife?
Which Hebrew prophet ran away from God upon being asked to go to the city of Nineveh and call its people to repentance?
Who is Jonah?
What surprising focus does the book of Proverbs have in its final section?
What is a woman of strength?
What is diaspora literature primarily defined by?
What are themes of identity in their adopted countries?
What is a classification of biblical literature that encompasses Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesastes?
What is wisdom literature?
What single word could describe the state of Israel at the end of the Hebrew Bible’s major canonical divisions?
What is exile?
What phrase is commonly associated with Job's attitude towards his hardships?
What is"The patience of Job."?
What happens when Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refuse to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s idol?
What is sentenced to burn to death in a furnace?
What literary genre do some scholars speculate Jonah could fall into?
What is parody/satire?
What main topics do the psalms focus on in temple liturgies?
What is the Kingship of Yahweh?
Which Syrian emperor destroyed the Jerusalem temple? (Hint: Daniel- Bible Odyssey).
Who was Antiochus IV?
How did the story of Isaiah start?
What was a vision from God?
What did the group of Israelites returning from the Babylonian exile who resisted intermarriage call themselves?
What is the “Holy Seed?”
What does the Hebrew word hevel, often translated as "vanity" in Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), actually mean?
What is “meaningless” or “smoke”?
What are the two books of the Hebrew Bible that do not specifically mention God?
What are Song of Songs and Esther?
Who are the two groups condemned for intermarrying in Ezra and Nehemiah, sparking debates about ethnicity and identity?
What are “The remnant” and foreign women?