Religion Exam 2

Front 1

How many testaments are in the Bible?

Back 1

2 (New and Old)

Front 2

How many Old Testament books in Protestant Bible?

Back 2

39 (Does not include the 7 books written in Greek)

Front 3

How many Old Testament books in Catholic Bible?

Back 3

46

Front 4

Who decided that the 7 Greek books would not be included in the Protestant Bible?

Back 4

Martin Luther

Front 5

How are the Old Testament and New Testament interconnected?

Back 5

They both deal with God's relationships. OT talks about God's relationships with the Patriarchs (Abraham), and the NT deals with God's relationships through Jesus.

Front 6

What are the two types of inspiration in the Bible?

Back 6

Verbal and Non Verbal (Contextual)

Front 7

What are the two types of inerrancy in the Bible?

Back 7

Total and Religious

Front 8

What question does Biblical Inerrancy answer?

Back 8

Aren't there mistakes in the Bible?

Front 9

What does TaNaK stand for?

Back 9

Torah, Nevi'im and Kesuvim

Front 10

What does Torah mean?

Back 10

Law

Front 11

What does Nevi'im mean?

Back 11

Prophets

Front 12

What does Kesuvim mean?

Back 12

Writings

Front 13

Name the 4 divisions of the Old Testament (according to Christians)

Back 13

Pentateuch
Historical Books
Wisdom
Prophets

Front 14

What does Pentateuch mean?

Back 14

First 5 books of the Bible

Front 15

Name the first 5 books of the Bible (The Pentateuch)

Back 15

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

Front 16

What are the 2 types of writings found in the Pentateuch?

Back 16

History and Laws

Front 17

What is the oldest section of the Bible?

Back 17

Exodus ( The Psalm of Miriam; Exodus 15)

Front 18

When was the Psalm of Miriam written?

Back 18

12th century BCE (Before the Common Era)

Front 19

What is a canon?

Back 19

Rule List; The books of the Bible.

Front 20

When was the Christian canon set?

Back 20

4th century

Front 21

How did the Bible come about? (4 steps)

Back 21

Oral traditions
Primitive lists of stories
Redacted (edited) stories
Autograph manuscripts (final edited text)

Front 22

What is the Bible's basic storyline?

Back 22

The story of one loving relationship through history between a people and their God

Front 23

What does it mean to say that the Bible is the living word of God?

Back 23

Becomes alive in us through the Wesleyan Quadrilateral

Front 24

What is the Wesleyan Quadrilateral?

Back 24

The four ways that we encounter God;
Scripture
Tradition
Experience
Reason

Front 25

What does verbal inspiration mean?

Back 25

Exactly what is written is truth (Islamic faith)

Front 26

What does non-verbal inspiration mean?

Back 26

God revealed himself to the chosen few. There may be discrepancies

Front 27

What is total inerrancy?

Back 27

The Bible is without errors in all matters

Front 28

What is religious inerrancy?

Back 28

The Bible is without errors in matters that deal with our salvation.

Front 29

What are the two ways that the Bible can be interpreted?

Back 29

Fundamentalist- Word for word dictation
Contextual- Stresses historical context

Front 30

What are the five criticism's in the contextual approach to interpretation?

Back 30

Historical
Textual
Form
Source
Redaction

Front 31

The Old Testament covers how many years of writing?

Back 31

1000

Front 32

When was the Jewish canon set?

Back 32

2nd century CE (common era)

Front 33

What does the word "testament" mean?

Back 33

covenant

Front 34

Biblical Authority: What does the Propositional Truths Model say?

Back 34

The Bible is totally inerrant; It is a collection of moral truths; Bible is an answer book, like an owner's manual. View of Evangelicals

Front 35

Biblical Authority: What does the Transformative Word Model say?

Back 35

The Bible has authority because it can change people's lives; Not an answer book; View of Protestants.

Front 36

Biblical Authority: What does the Narration of God's Identity Model say?

Back 36

Bible tells story of who God is and what we are called to be.

Front 37

What are the Jewish divisions of the Bible?

Back 37

Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim; Law, Prophets and Writings

Front 38

Highlights from the Historical Books

Back 38

-Settle in the Promised Land
-The rise of King David
-The return from exile
-The Jewish resistence to Greek domination (Not in Protestant bibles)

Front 39

Highlights from the Wisdom Literature

Back 39

-Search for the meaning of life
-Discover moral lessons in everyday experiences
-Good and wise living will be rewarded.

Front 40

Highlights from the Prophets

Back 40

-Gave warnings against idolatry
-God would forgive their sins if they turned to him

Front 41

What was the first gospel to be written?

Back 41

Mark

Front 42

What was the last gospel written?

Back 42

John

Front 43

Who wrote the apocolyptic writings of the Book of Revelation?

Back 43

John

Front 44

What is the Septuagint?

Back 44

A collection of 46 books of ancient Jewish Scriptures written in Greek.

Front 45

The Yahwist source of the Torah

Back 45

-Focused on the southern kingdom of Judah
-Emphasized God's closeness to humanity
-Anthropomorphic

Front 46

The Elohist source of the Torah

Back 46

-Referred to God as Elohi or Lord
-Focused on the northern kingdom of Israel
-God speaks through symbols

Front 47

The Deuteronomist source of the Torah

Back 47

-Emphasized the law as the foundation of the kingdom of Judah
-Emphasis on obedience
-Called people back

Front 48

The Preistly source of the Torah

Back 48

-Portrayed God as more distant
-Formal writings
-Concerned with worship (the Sabbath)

Front 49

What is a prophet?

Back 49

Someone called by God to speak on God's behalf to the people and to deliver a message

Front 50

Where can you find the only true apocolyptic text in the Old Testament?

Back 50

Book of Daniel

Front 51

Which was written first in the Genesis creation stories?

Back 51

Genesis II