Multiple Choice Quiz


1	The term “Bible” comes from a Greek word which means
		A)	the holy book
		B)	the Word of God
		C)	Scripture;
		D)	little books


2	The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are also called:
		A)	The Pentateuch
		B)	apocrypha
		C)	Nevi’im
		D)	the codex vaticanus


3	Tanak comes from the names of the three sections of the Hebrew Bible. These sections are known as Torah, Nevi’im, and
		A)	koine
		B)	Septuagint
		C)	Kethuvim
		D)	the prophets


4	One of the main differences between the Tanak and the Christian Old Testament is:
		A)	the Christian Old Testament concludes with the prophetic books
		B)	The Christian Old Testament does not include Deuteronomy
		C)	the Tanak includes only those books written in Hebrew
		D)	The Christian Old Testament does not include any erotic poetry


5	The Dead Sea Scrolls are important for biblical study because they include numerous copies of
		A)	books of the Hebrew Bible
		B)	the New Testament
		C)	the Gospel of Thomas
		D)	the codex sinaiticus


6	The person who translated the Bible into Latin was
		A)	Eusebius
		B)	Constantine the Great
		C)	Athanasius
		D)	Jerome


7	The New Testament was written in a form of Greek known as
		A)	Aramaic
		B)	koine
		C)	Septuagint
		D)	Latin


8	The term used for the common ancient practice of books written by an unknown author in the name of a famous, often biblical, figure is
		A)	apocrypha
		B)	deuterocanon
		C)	plagiarism
		D)	pseudonymity


9	The type of Biblical scholarship that examines the significance of the text as we now have it is
		A)	source criticism
		B)	textual criticism
		C)	literary criticism
		D)	genre


10	The King James Version of the Bible is inadequate because
		A)	it is based on the Vulgate
		B)	it was produced by English Puritans
		C)	thousands of ancient manuscript copies of the New Testament have been discovered since it was produced
		D)	its translators did not know Hebrew

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