What's in it?
The two major parts of the Bible
What are the Old and New Testaments?
The very first stories in the Bible are about this.
What is creation?
The New Testament describes this person as both fully human and fully divine.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Laws given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The Gospels tell the story of ________.
Who is Jesus (life, death, resurrection)?
Christians share parts of our Bible with these two other major religions.
What are Judaism and Islam?
This person led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.
Who is Moses?
This person travelled around the Ancient Mediterranean founding churches and writing letters to them.
Who is the Apostle Paul?
The word "Gospel" means this.
What is "good news?"
The four Gospels in the New Testament.
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, John?
Before they were written down, most of the stories in the Bible circulated this way.
What is orally?
The Jewish Scriptures were originally written in this language.
What is Hebrew?
The New Testament was originally written in this language.
What is Greek?
This book in the New Testament tells a story of how the early Church began and how Christianity spread.
What is the Book of Acts?
Jesus often taught in stories/metaphors called ____.
What are parables?
Name three genres of literature contained in the Bible.
What are history, law, fiction, poetry, prophecy, letters, apocalypse?
God promised this person the land and descendants that became the place and people of (Biblical) Israel.
Who is Abraham?
This apocalyptic book is the last book in our Bible.
What is Revelation?
The three-year cycle of readings that tells us what Scripture to read in church on Sundays.
What is the lectionary?
This was the last Gospel to be written.
What is the Gospel of John?
Word that means "a common set of texts generally recognized as Scripture."
What is a canon?
Name the four major parts of the Jewish Scriptures.
What are Torah/Pentateuch, History, Poetry/Wisdom, Prophecy?
This book tells the story of how the Church began and how Christianity spread.
What is the Book of Acts?
What are the two "greatest commandments?"
What are
"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind" and
"You shall love your neighbor as yourself?"
(Matthew 22:37-39)
These three Gospels have a lot in common and are called the "Synoptic Gospels."
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke