Episode 16 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 16: Four Main Parts. See how much you know about the superstructure of the Old Testament and its various versions by clicking START below!

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The composition of the Bible, from its earliest fragments down to Revelation, probably took about:

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The enormous “Priestly” or “Prescriptive” portion of the Bible’s first five books contains which of the following?

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This section of the Old Testament contains the enormous texts attributed to Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

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Which of the following books of the Old Testament engages most lengthily with the question of the “Problem of Evil?”

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This section of the Old Testament includes Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs.

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The main narrative portion of the Pentateuch, or first five books of the Old Testament, is about:

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A modern print novel averages about 100,000 words. The Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha together weigh in at about:

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The Hebrew word for the Old Testament.

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Select the answer below that has the four most popular bibles arranged from shortest to longest (in terms of number of books).

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The main languages in which (1) the Old Testament and (2) the New Testament were originally written.

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This part of the Old Testament tells of the time between the Israelites’ first arrival in Canaan down to their forced exile to the city of Babylon.

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You find references to bull scrotums in:

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The Rosetta Stone, which helped catalyze a general European interest in the Ancient Near East, was discovered in:

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Two different names for the first five books of the Bible.

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Which of the following do the Prophetic Books, the fourth of our four main parts, NOT prophesize?

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