Introduction & General Principles
The One Principle Author of all of Scripture
Who is God? (Or Who is the Holy Spirit?)
The Pentateuch (a.k.a., the Books of the Law, the Torah, the five books of Moses).
What are the first five books of the Bible called?
The number of Gospels in the Bible.
What is 4?
What we call a hand-written copy of the Bible (or usually just part of the Bible). [In the case of the Bible, none of the ones we have anymore were written by the original authors; 500 point bonus for saying what that would be called.]
What is a manuscript? [500 point bonus: What is an autograph?]
A reason that a manuscript might have been accidentally copied wrong.
Any one of the following: Bad eyesight of the copyist; tiredness; distractedness; bad lighting; margin notes taken to be text; dividing up words wrong that were originally written in unical (all caps, no spaces);"typos"/misspellings
The meaning of the word "Bible" ("biblia") in Greek.
What is "[the] Books"?
The books of the Law, the books of the Prophets, and the Writings (a.k.a., Wisdom Literature).
What are the 3 types of books in the Old Testament?
The number of books of the New Testament?
What is 27?
The people who were most responsible for copying, propagating, and preserving Scripture throughout the middle ages, before the printing press.
Who are monks?
The cost to buy a complete copy of the Bible before the printing press, as equivalent in today's terms of buying one of these. [Choose from A. an encyclopedia set; B. a large-screen TV; C. a car; D. a house; or E. a skyscraper]
What is (d) a house?
The number of books in the [Catholic] Bible. [Extra 100 points for also the number in most Protestant Bibles]
What is 73? [Protestant Version: What is 66?]
The number of books in the [Catholic] Old Testament. [Extra hundred points for also saying the number of books in the Protest OT.]
What is 46? [Protestant Version: What is 39?]
The type of N.T. book that was written, usually to a Christian community, to correct an incorrect belief or practice. [Double points for telling how many of these books were written by St. Paul.]
What are the Epistles [or Letters]? [2x Points: What is 13? [I'll accept 14 because, at the time Henry Graham wrote his book, Hebrews was thought to have been written by St. Paul.]
The word for animal skins that were used as "paper" in ancient times; this is what all the ancient copies of scripture we have now were written on. [Extra 500 points for also the more expensive & later material made for younger animals' skins.]
What is parchment? [Bonus 500 pts: What is vellum?]
The word that Martin Luther added to his translation into German of the verse that says that we are saved by faith.
What is "alone" or "only"?
The two main languages that the Bible was originally written in. [Double points for stating a 3rd language that some parts of it were written in.]
What are Hebrew and Greek? [Extra Points: What is Aramaic?]
The language of the Septuagint, i.e., the OT was translated into by 70 scholars within a few centuries before Christ.
What is Greek?
The two Apostles who wrote 2 of the the 4 Gospels, and one of the other of the 12 Apostles who wrote one or more of the non-Gospel books of the New Testament.
Who are Matthew and John, and who is [either James, Peter, or Jude]?
The approximate number of biblical manuscripts known to exist today.
What is 25,000? (as of 2024, as discussed in class) -- OR -- What is 3,000? (the number listed by Rev. Graham in our 1911 book)
The approximate number of variations in biblical manuscripts, as stated in the book. [Choose from A. 2000; B. 20,000; C. 200,000; D. 2,000,000; E. 20,000,000]
What is (c) 200,000?
The approximate number of years between the writing of the first book (Genesis) & last (Revelation) of the Bible. (A. 100 years; B. 300 years; C. 700 years; D. 1500 years; or E. 5,000 years)
What is 1500 years?
The language of the Vulgate, the very-important translation of the Bible by St. Jerome in AD 382 (NT) and 392-404 (OT).
What is Latin?
The local Church Council in 397 that settled the canon (list of books) of the Bible, which was then approved of by the Pope.
What is the Council of Carthage? [I'll accept the Council of Hippo, which produced the same list 4 years earlier (in 393), but that canon was not approved by the Pope.]
The inventor of the printing press -- OR -- the approximate year it was invented. [Extra 200 points for both answers.]
Who was Johannes Gutenberg (originally "Gensfleisch", whose name Henry Graham translates "John Gooseflesh")? -- OR -- What is 1440 or 1450?
The word for non-biblical margin notes and such that are translated as if they are part of scripture. [Choose from A. glosses; B. notations; C. alienations; D. figurations; E. eccentricities]
What are glosses?