Bible
The 3 original languages of the Bible.
What are Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic?
The emoji that signifies the Bible in Unit 1.
What is fire emoji?
The primary function of marriage in biblical antiquity.
What is to produce an heir?
The Gospel that was primarily written to Gentiles.
What is Luke?
How the Bible was first transmitted.
What is orally?
A better image of what “The Bible” is.
What is a library or scroll of books?
The art and science of interpretation.
What is hermeneutics?
The creation of sun, moon, and stars according to Genesis 1 occurred on this day.
What is day 4?
Israel is located at the intersection of which 3 continents?
What are Africa, Asia, and Europe?
A fear of foreigners.
What is xenophobia?
How the book of Jonah ends.
What is a rhetorical question?
The primary reason why scholars say there are 2 creation accounts in Genesis.
What is the change in the divine name? Gen 1 (God). Gen 2 (Lord God).
The group of people who most likely wrote the first creation account in Genesis 1.
Who are priests?
The books included in the Torah.
What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?
An origin story.
The Greek translation of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible.
What is the Septuagint?
2 Greek words that make up theology.
What are theos and logos?
A theme that is exemplified in the stories of Isaac, Jacob, Rachel, Joseph, and Ephraim.
What is God’s preference for the younger sibling or underdog?
The individual who first mentioned the 27 books of the New Testament as a definitive list in 367 CE.
Who is Athanasius?
The name of the translation that refers to the "Spirit of God."
What is the King James Version (KJV)?
2 Questions: 5 literary genres of the Bible and the first 5 books of the Bible.
What are history, narrative, law, wisdom, prophecy, poetry, gospel, epistle, and apocalypse? What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy?
The 4 "theological" senses of Scripture.
What are literal, allegorical, moral, anagogic?
The group of people who most likely were addressed by the Gospel of Matthew.
Who are Jews?
The world's oldest Bible.
What is the Sinai Codex?
The three dimensions or characteristics of hermeneutics.
What are context-dependent, interest-driven, and self-revealing?