Bible 101
Canonization
Bible Origins
Inspiration
Authors & Translations
100
God is bigger than this.
What is the Bible?
100
The word canon comes from a word that means this.
What is measuring rod?
100
The Old Testament was written primarily in this language?
What is Hebrew?
100
Inspiration for our purposes refers to how persons were moved to write and how the canonization processed worked under this person's guidance?
Who is God?
100
The most reliable version of the bible used by scholars because it uses the best manuscripts and is free of bias is this.
What is the NRSV?
200
Approaching the Bible as the word of God requires this.
What is faith?
200
This person was the first canon of the church or standard we use to evaluate everything in the canon.
Who is Jesus?
200
The New Testament was written in a street form of this language.
What is Greek?
200
In spite of the Bible's inspiration, it is not God's perfect revelation to humankind, that title belongs instead to this person.
Who is Jesus?
200
The process of translation was to change the Bible from one of these into another.
What is language?
300
More than simply a book, the Bible is really this.
What is a library?
300
For the most part, in order for books to be included in the canon, they had to be believed to be this.
What is inspired?
300
These persons, part of the 1% who were literate, hand copied the biblical pages likely introducing errors into the text.
Who are scribes?
300
The Bible is inspired in part because it is relevant to these persons.
Who are persons in relationship with God?
300
In spite of labels on Bible books, the authorship of the books is not always this.
What is straightforward or clear?
400
It is best to view the Bible is this, rather than as a collection of facts.
What is truth?
400
This man came up with the list of 66 books in a letter in 367CE.
Who is Athanasius?
400
This term refers to the original manuscripts or the first pieces authored by persons like Paul.
What is an autograph?
400
Inspiration refers to the power behind the book and informs this.
What is why we should care what it says?
400
Scholars are able to tell authorship based on content, dating and this.
What is writing style?
500
The gospels demonstrate the fact that what is presented as history, due to bias, is not always this.
What is historically accurate?
500
This term refers to teachings that were deemed wrong and unacceptable i.e. Gnosticism.
What is heresy?
500
This is the form of the Hebrew Bible translated into Greek by 70 scholars.
What is the Septuagint?
500
This theory of inspiration holds that God told the writers exactly what to write word-for-word.
What is plenary verbal inspiration?
500
This term refers to "false writings" or people writing in the name of other people in some cases who were dead at the time of composition?
What is pseudepigrapha?
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