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QUESTION 1
1. The books of the Old Testament were originally written in what language?
Hebrew
Greek
Latin
Aramaic
QUESTION 2
1. What was the one great contribution of the ancient Hebrew people?
alphabetic writing
Hammurabi's Code of Law
belief in one God, all powerful, all knowing.
political conquest of the Middle East
QUESTION 3
1. Why does Cain kill his brother Abel?
Because God was more pleased with the offerings of Abel
Because Adam loves Abel more
Because Abel teases him
Because the serpent told him
QUESTION 4
1. How many sons does Jacob have?
Three
Ten
Twelve
Four
QUESTION 5
1. The book of Genesis begins this way:
"And it came to pass..."
"In the beginning..."
"And the Lord said..."
"There was a man in the land of Uz..."
QUESTION 6
1. How does God feed the Israelites in the desert?
By miraculously providing fish from the Red Sea
By a strange bread-like substance from heaven
By food produced from Moses' staff
By an endless supply of produce from Egypt
QUESTION 7
1. The ancient area controlled by the Hebrews
Assyria
Babylonia
Sumeria
Palestine
QUESTION 8
1. The sacred name of the Hebrew God, often called the Tetragrammaton, as rendered in the Roman alphabet
YHWH
Elohim
Allah
Alpha
QUESTION 9
1. A revolt against the roman Enperoor Hadrian in A.D. 141-134, result in the removal of the Hebrew people from Palestine. As a result they are known as children of the ___?
Garden of Eden
the Great Flood
the Ark of the Covenant
the Diaspora
QUESTION 10
1. The Lord asked Jonah to go to what city to warn against their wickedness?
Nineveh
Jerusalem
Sodom
Uruk
QUESTION 11
1. What is Jacob's alternate name?
Isaac
Ishmael
Judah
Israel
QUESTION 12
1. What object that God gives Moses allows him to perform signs and wonders?
The stone tablets
A wooden staff
A colorful robe
A golden censer
QUESTION 13
1. Biblical story based on an oral folktale of the patient sufferer that shows a faithful servant of God being tested
Job
Joseph
Cain and Abel
Exodus
QUESTION 14
1. Utnapishtim's story from Gilgamesh provides the basis for the story of
Cain and Abel
Noah
Joseph
Job
QUESTION 15
1. The first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, is also called
Genesis
Exodus
Deuteronomy
Torah
QUESTION 16
1. The twin brother of biblical Esau
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Abel
QUESTION 17
1. The Old testament books of the Bible date from what periods?
2500-1500 B.C.
1000-300 B.C.
500B.C.-100 A.D.
1000-1500 A.D.
QUESTION 18
1. How does God first appear to Moses?
As a group of three men
As an angel
As a flaming sword
As a burning bush
QUESTION 19
1. The ancient Hebrew state that was reestablished in the twentieth century
Palestine
Israel
Egypt
Babylon
QUESTION 20
1. Which of the following are not signs of God's covenant, or promise, with Abraham?
The rite of circumcision
God provides Sarah with a son, Isaac
God renames Abraham and his wife Sarah
God destroys the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
QUESTION 21
1. From which catastrophe does Joseph save Egypt?
Famine
A Plague
Military invasion
A flood
QUESTION 22
1. The Old Testment is made up of fragmentarry manuscripts labelled by the letters J, E, P, and
G (Genesis)
M (Moses)
N (Numbers)
D (Deuteronomy)
QUESTION 23
1. Among the formalistic devices that lend rhythm to the poetry of the Old Testament are
Consistent end rhyme
ballad stanza
heroic couplets
parallelism and repetition
QUESTION 24
1. How does Jacob steal his brother Esau's inheritance rights?
By sleeping with his mother
By exposing Esau's plan to murder his father
By tricking his father with the help of his mother
By killing his brother
QUESTION 25
1. Who were the two great kings of the Hebrew people who ruled during a brief period of prosperity (1005-925 B.C)?
Abraham and Isaac
David and Solomon
Alexander and Ptolemy
Hamurabi and Akhenaten