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Exploring Biblical Texts and Traditions

This quiz explores key concepts, texts, and traditions related to the Bible, including significant historical and religious contexts.

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1 Many ________, Muslims, and Jews regard the Bible as inspired by God yet written fallibly by imperfect men.

2 "little papyrus books")[5] was "an expression Hellenistic Jews used to describe their sacred books several centuries before the time of ________,"[6] and would have referred to the Septuagint.

3 ________ denies any connection of the Torah, Written or Oral, with God.

4 ________, So—Shir ha-Shirim (שיר השירים)

5 Bible, Rani Lakshmibai and Revelstoke, British Columbia are all:

6 The ________ is read on Yom Kippur.

7 The ________, or "Writings" or "Scriptures," may have been written during or after the Babylonian Exile.

8 ________ and those of the Modern Protestant traditions do not accept the deuterocanonical books as canonical, although Protestant Bibles included them in Apocrypha sections until around the 1820s.

9 Broadly speaking, it is the same as the ________.

10 ________ (Baruch Chapter 6)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Philippine Commission on Elections cited the Bible and the Koran to disqualify the Ang Ladlad LGBT Party from the 2010 party-list election.
  • the Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded by an American Indian in 1881 which incorporates Catholic, Protestant, and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible and other written scriptures.
  • the Lazarus syndrome is named after Lazarus of Bethany (pictured), who the Bible says was raised from the dead by Jesus.
  • the first person shooter computer game Requiem: Avenging Angel was influenced by the Bible and Christian Mythology.
  • in his later years, Union Army general Thomas Alfred Davies published a number of books supporting the divine inspiration of the Bible, and refuting the materialistic philosophy.
  • former Texas State Senator Max Sherman sold Bibles door-to-door in the mid-1950s to pay expenses toward attending Baylor University.
  • in 1820, the missionary William Jowett bought the 9,539-page manuscript of Abu Rumi's first-ever translation of the Bible into Amharic "on terms which appeared... equitable to all parties".
  • the Ostrog Bible of 1580 was the first complete printed edition of the Bible in a Slavic language.
  • the Perek Shirah, an ancient Jewish text, contains 84 songs of various elements of creation, ranging from the heavens to dogs, based upon Biblical and Talmudic verses.
  • theories about the Shugborough inscription ciphertext include a love message, a biblical verse, a clue to a preserved Jesus bloodline or a reference to the Priory of Sion and the Holy Grail.
  • two local Christians stopped by the dedication ceremony for Spring Glen Synagogue's Torah scrolls and presented the congregation with a Bible.
  • the founding of the Church in Malta is described in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible.
  • the ancient Bible text, British Library Manuscript, Add. 14448, is lacunose.
  • the Winchester Bible, the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible, incorporated the skins of 250 calves.
  • the album cover artwork of Behemoth's Evangelion is a depiction of "The Great Harlot of Babylon", the figure of evil mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible.
  • crop losses caused by the desert locust are described in the Bible and the Qur'an.
  • among those who do not believe John the Apostle was the author of the Johannine works of the Bible, John the Evangelist is the most commonly mentioned possible alternative author.
  • Johann Phillip Fabricius, a German Christian missionary, completed the first translation of the Bible to Tamil.
  • John Baldwin named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible, and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip.
  • Jose C. Abriol was the first person to translate the Catholic Bible into Tagalog.
  • Charles B. Thompson, who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa.
  • Arumuga Navalar, a Hindu revivalist, also helped translate the Bible into Tamil.
  • Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak-Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi-Balinese-Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971.
  • Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16.
  • Kjell Magne Yri, a linguist at the University of Oslo, began his career as a Bible translator and priest in Ethiopia.
  • Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible, unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
  • The Voice of the Turtle, the ninth longest-running play in Broadway history, derives its name from a verse in the Bible’s Song of Solomon.
  • according to Ronald Enroth's book Churches That Abuse, "spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible-preaching, fundamentalist, conservative Christianity".
  • Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story.
  • Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster (pictured) is reputed to have thrown either a Bible or a Prayer Book at the head of King George IV.
  • Onesimos Nesib, who translated the Bible into Oromo, was accused of blasphemy for delivering sermons in his native language and not Amharic, the language of the local Orthodox priests.
  • Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University, and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy.
  • 16th-century Genevan reformer John Calvin held Bible studies in the Calvin Auditory.
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