Test Questions & Answers Chapter.1 What Is The Bible? 4e

Chapter 1: What Is the Bible?

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Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1. In Jewish tradition, what are the three major divisions of the Hebrew Bible? What are the characteristics of the books found in each of these divisions? Describe the processes that led to the canonization of each of these components.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2. Compare the Jewish and Christian canons of the Old Testament. How do they differ? What are the reasons for the differences in the order and content of these collections?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3. What is involved in the process of textual criticism and what is the goal of the textual critic? What role has it played in scholars’ efforts to translate the Bible?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4. To what does the term “the Bible” refer? What problems arise in trying to define “the Bible”?

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1. All the books in the Hebrew Bible were accepted as canonical at the same time.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2. The Hebrew Bible includes all of the writings that the Israelites produced.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3. Genesis, the first book of the Bible, was also the first book of the Bible to be written.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4. The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Bible produced by an unknown individual.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

5. The Latter Prophets are the books named after individual prophets.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 01 Question 06

6. Both the Jewish and Christian canons put the books of the Hebrew Bible in the same order.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 01 Question 07

7. The books of the Apocrypha are not included as a part of the Jewish canon because they were hidden from early Jewish communities.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 01 Question 08

8. The books of the Hebrew Bible were separated into chapters and verses in ancient times.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 01 Question 09

9. The Torah was probably the first division of the Bible to gain canonical status.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 01 Question 10

10. The Dead Sea Scrolls provide evidence for a fixed canon already in the first century CE.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1. In Jewish tradition, all are parts of the Bible except:

a. Torah

b. Apocrypha

c. Writings

d. Prophets

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 02

2. Which book is not a part of the Torah?

a. Exodus

b. Deuteronomy

c. Joshua

d. Numbers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3. The thirty-nine books that make up the Jewish Tanakh and that are also included in all Christian versions of the Old Testament are known as:

a. the Hebrew Bible

b. the Pseudepigrapha

c. the Writings

d. Chronicles

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4. During the _______________, the Bible was first divided into chapters.

a. Middle Ages

b. Reformation

c. Roman period

d. Hellenistic period

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

5. The Former Prophets begin with the divine appointment of ______________ as

leader of Israel.

a. Moses

b. Saul

c. David

d. Joshua

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 06

6. In the Tanakh the book of ____________ is found in the Writings, but in the

Christian canon it follows the book of Judges.

a. Ruth

b. Job

c. Psalms

d. Proverbs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 07

7. In the Christian canon the book of ______________ was moved from the

Writings to the Latter Prophets.

a. Job

b. Isaiah

c. Esther

d. Daniel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 08

8. After the Protestant Reformation in the ________ century, the Apocrypha was

excluded from Protestant Bibles.

a. 16th

b. 5th

c. 14th

d. 8th

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 09

10. The distinction between the Minor Prophets differ from the Major Prophets is primarily based on ___________.

a. date

b. theological value

c. length

d. theme

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 11

11. For a book to be canonical in Jewish tradition, it must be written in:

a. Greek

b. Aramaic

c. Yiddish

d. Hebrew

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 12

12. The distinction between the Former Prophets and the Latter Prophets is primarily based on____________:

a. date

b. theological value

c. length

d. genre

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 13

13. Which book is found in the Apocrypha?

a. Ezekiel

b. Nahum

c. Malachi

d. 1 Maccabees

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 14

14. The _____________________ is a category of noncanonical Jewish literature

from the Hellenistic and Roman periods attributed to famous biblical characters.

a. Apocrypha

b. Prophets

c.Pseudepigrapha

d. Writings

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 15

15. The Council of ____________ in 1546 decreed that all forty-six books of the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha, were canonical and equally authoritative.

a. Nicaea

b. Trent

c. Ephesus

d. Constantinople

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 16

16. Most scholars identify the ____________ as the group for whom the Dead Sea Scrolls served as a library.

a. Romans

b. Sadducees

c. Essenes

d. Pharisees

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 17

17. According to legend, ___________ translators of the Torah independently produced identical translations and thus proved that the Septuagint was as inspired as the original.

a. 60

b. 70

c. 600

d. 700

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 18

18. The Bible was originally written in Hebrew, ___________, and Greek.

a. Arabic

b. Ugaritic

c. Akkadian

d. Aramaic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 19

19. Scholars use ____________ criticism to account for the editorial processes that produced the biblical texts.

a. redaction

b. form

c. historical

d. textual

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 Question 20

20. The earliest manuscripts for the Hebrew Bible date from the ___________ century BCE.

a. fourth

b.third

c.second

d.first

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 01

1. The technical term for the official list of books comprising the Bible by a religious community is _________________.

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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 02

2. The frequently used acronym for the Jewish Bible is _________________.

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 03

3. _________________, ____________________, and ________________ are the three major divisions of the Old Testament.

a.Torah

b. Prophets

c. Writings

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 04

4. The _________________ was published in 1611 as the culmination of the work of dozens of translators over seven years.

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 05

5. The Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther are collectively known as the five _______________.

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 06

6. The _______________ Text is the stabilized version of the Hebrew Bible that eventually became the standard version.

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 07

7. ___________________ involves examining the evidence from thousands of ___________________, or hand copies of the Bible, to determine the earliest form of a text.

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 08

8. The books of the ____________________ are also designated “Deuterocanonical.”

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 09

9. The _________________ is the Christian term for the books of the Jewish Bible.

a. Old Testament

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Title: Chapter 01 Question 10

10. According to ancient Jewish tradition _________________ wrote the Torah.