Bible Knowledge
The number of books in the Bible
What is 66?
The earliest form of sharing stories, involving telling stories through the spoken word
What is oral tradition?
Writing aid made using tall plants, used in ancient times for writing
What is a reed pen?
This alphabet contains no vowels, punctuation, or spaces, and was written from right to left in all capitals
What is the Hebrew alphabet?
Where pictographs and cuneiform first developed
Where is Mesopotamia?
The author of the first 5 books of the Bible
Who is Moses?
A form of writing that uses simple images to record messages
What are pictographs?
Broken pieces of pottery, used like scrap paper
What are potsherds?
This is the alphabet that we use today in English
What is the Latin alphabet?
These people were the only ones educated in reading and writing, and often carried writing materials with them
What is a scribe?
The number of authors God used to write the Bible
What is 40?
This type of writing uses images to create messages, used in Egypt
What are hieroglyphics?
The centres of these plants were layered to create this writing material
What is papyrus?
A benefit of the alphabet system
What is easier to learn?
The way the Bible is like an umbrella
What is we need to open it and read it for it to help us?
The number of years that it took to write the Bible
What is 1400 years?
A language using wedge-shaped symbol to record messages, with over 500 symbols
What is cuneiform?
A type of paper made using animal skins
What is parchment?
The New Testament was written in this alphabet, making it available to more people
What is the Greek alphabet?
A disadvantage to oral tradition
What is details can be changed?
The Latin word biblios means...
What is book?
The cursive form of hieroglyphics
What is hieratic?
A piece of ivory or wood, covered in was that could be erased and reused
What is a tablet?
One of the earliest alphabets, used by the Israelites when they were still in Egypt, using symbols to represent the sounds instead of images
What is the Canaanite alphabet?
Most of the Old Testament was written in using this alphabet
What is the Hebrew alphabet?