Episode 21 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 21: The Bible’s Magic Trick. See how much you can recall about the Psalms, their general organization, and their content by clicking START below!

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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. / He makes me lie down in green pastures is a passage from:

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Our mnemonic device for remembering the categories of the Psalms was “Reading Psalms takes lots of work.” Which categories do these letters stand for?

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How many Psalms are there in the Catholic, Protestant, and Hebrew bibles?

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The “Categorical” approach to the Book of Psalms involves:

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The Psalms pervasively use a linguistic device called:

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The “Aggregative” approach to studying the Book of Psalms tries:

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The eighteenth-century bishop and Hebrew language scholar Robert Lowth noticed the line pairings in the Psalms and proposed that:

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The Psalms, unlike the Pentateuch and Historical books that come before them in Catholic and Protestant bibles, often make use of:

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The “Functional” approach to understanding the Psalms involves:

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The Psalms have traditionally been attributed to:

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