Canon
The "Second Temple" books, not included in our Protestant Christian Bible is called...
the Apocrypha
The reigning empire at the time of Jesus' birth
Roman Empire
The Jewish holiday that commemorates when the Maccabees took back the temple from the Seleucid emperor.
Hannukah
The first scrolls of the Bible were written on
papyrus
The reason why the Pharisees were so legalistic, is because they were trying to avoid...
Exile
Name the 5 Books of Moses, or the "Torah."
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Alexander the Great conquered which empire?
Persian
Name the the three Roman procurators in the Gospels and Acts.
Pilate, Felix, and Festus
The second "version" of the books of the Bible after a traditional scroll is called a....
The Maccabean ideal formed the basis for which sect?
The Zealots
The Old Testament (Jewish) canon is called the...
TaNaK
Name the 2 empires that took over after Alexander the Great died.
Ptolemaic and Seleucid
Fill in the blanks on Typology:
Jesus is the new _________. He is replicating a new __________.
Moses; Exodus
The group living at Qumran, most likely responsible for transcribing the Dead Sea Scrolls...
Essenes
This sect excluded women from membership and required a 3-year initiation process.
The Essenes
What were the 3 criteria for books to be included in the New Testament canon?
Apostolic, Orthodox, Relevance
The name of the leader who slaughtered a pig on a Jewish altar and abolished their rituals...
Antiochus Epiphanes
Name the typology [similar character] of Herod the Great from the Old Testament
Pharaoh
The first translation of the Old Testament (Hebrew into Greek) is called the...
This Jewish sect did not believe in angelic spirits, nor did they believe in the resurrection, causing disbelief in Jesus' resurrection.
The Sadducees
The New Testament books became canon at the end of the ____ century...
4th
Antiochus Epiphanes' name means...
"To Manifest God"
The three symbols of Jewish inheritance were...
The Land, the Law (Torah), and the Temple
The Bible was not mass produced until the invention of the printing press in the _________ century.
15th (1440)
This Jewish sect had a close relationship with the Roman government, reaping benefits of wealth.
The Sadducees