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Question 1

How did god go about revealing himself

Answer 1

God went about revealing Himself to us gradually over a period of many years

Question 2

Which group wrote down the oral tradtions and stuff

Answer 2

The isrealites jews

Question 3

In the Catholic belief…

Answer 3

Christ is the main point of all Holy Scripture

Question 4

The total number of books in the Christian (Catholic and Orthodox) Bible (including Old Testament and New Testament combined) is

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73.

Question 5

In general, the most influential and well-known character in the Old Testament is

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Moses

Question 6

The Ancient Hebrew Patriarchs are

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (some listings include Joseph on the list too.)

Question 7

what did Joshua do

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Joshua led the Hebrews out of the wasteland of Sinai by crossing the River Jordan and entering and conquering the land of Canaan.

Question 8

Three names (in historical order) are used to designate the Jewish people:

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Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews.

Question 9

Deborah was

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a female Judge of ancient Israel who directed the Israelite general, Barak, in his attack against the Philistines.

Question 10

Samuel is the prophet that said

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the Israelites did not need an earthly king (since the Lord God is already the king of His people, Israel.

Question 11

The last of the Ten Plagues brought on Egypt because of Pharaoh’s defiance of GOD was

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the death of all firstborn Egyptians.

Question 12

The ancient Law of God given to the Hebrews while wandering in the wilderness of Midian is referred to by various names:

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The Decalogue, The Ten Commandments, The Law of Moses, Torah, The Sinai Covenant, et.al.

Question 13

The event of the ancient Hebrews making a statue of a golden calf as a “god” to replace Yahweh is found in the Biblical book named

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Exodus.

Question 14

The conquest of Canaan can easily be characterized by a period of

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nearly continuous war with other tribes and nations.

Question 15

YHWH was

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the extremely great king of Israel prior to the rise of the monarchy.

Question 16

The Judean rebel that drove the Helenizers (Greeks) out of Jerusalem, and reconsecrated the Temple that had been violated with pagan worship, was named

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Judas Maccabeus

Question 17

Who is samuel

Answer 17

Samuel was the Judge and Prophet who anointed the first (and second) king of Israel.

Question 18

The first three kings of ancient Israel in order were

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Saul, David, and Solomon

Question 19

The book of the Bible that is often referred to as the prayer book of Jesus Christ is called

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(the) Psalms.

Question 20

What was king david known for

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composing Psalms, and unifying the Twelve Tribes of Israel

Question 21

King Solomon was a very powerful ruler who accomplished many things

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great Temple of Jerusalem built, author of a couple of Wisdom Books found in the Bible

Question 22

The Book of Ecclesiastes (found in the Biblical Wisdom Books) answers this very important question:

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what is the meaning of life?

Question 23

The kingdom of the ancient Jews under the rule of King David saw

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the unification of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
The names of these two kingdoms were Israel and Judah.

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the Assyrian Empire.

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took over the northern kingdom of isreal

Question 25

The southern kingdom of Judah was taken over by a later empire, also from the north; the name of this empire is taken from the name of its capital city, which is

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called Babylon

Question 26

There are some common sense rules for reading the Bible, one of these rules is

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“Don’t think you are the first person to correctly interpret the Bible.”

Question 27

What is a Cathloic way to read the bible

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A traditional Catholic way of reading the Bible is to understand that all of the Old Testament is a type or a foreshadowing (typology) that in some way prefigures and foretells the life, teaching, and accomplishments of Jesus Christ.

Question 28

The Biblical Canon is the

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official collection of books recognized as Divinely Inspired by Jesus and the early Church.

Question 29

The Alexandrian Canon of the Old Testament was translated in Egypt by 70 Jewish scholars (thus it is called the

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Septuagint Version)

Question 30

The Biblical collection of ancient Jewish songs, chants, and musical reflections is called

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the Psalms.

Question 31

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel are categorized as the Major Prophets, because

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they clearly have longer texts than the Minor Prophets.

Question 32

The first five books of the Old Testament are often referred to in ancient Greek as the

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Pentateuch.

Question 33

Generally, the greatest prophet (apart from Moses) of the Old Testament is

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Elijah.

Question 34

The assistance given by the Holy Spirit to the authors of the Bible (so they could express what God wanted to tell all people of all times and places) is called

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Divine Inspiration.

Question 35

The process of editing the Biblical text to correct typographical errors and clarify obscure meanings is called

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redaction.

Question 36

Alexander the Great and his army defeated the Jewish armies in 332 BC; subsequently, the Greek rulers of Palestine expected the Jewish people to accept Greek culture, language, and tradition - this process is called

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Hellenization.

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infallibility.

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The Catholic doctrine that the books of Sacred Scripture (Bible) are free from error regarding the truth God wishes to reveal to all human beings is called

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A covenant is a

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name for the promise God and His people made throughout the history of the Chosen People. `

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contextualism.

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The element of Biblical understanding and interpretation that takes into account the things and events that surround any particular Biblical story or teaching is called context - the viewpoint itself is called

Question 40

Natural Revelation

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the way the order, power, and beauty of Creation can reveal many important things about God, but not some of the most important ones

Question 41

Divine Revelation is

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the way GOD reveals something about Himself directly to a person(s)..

Question 42

Salvation History is

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a popular term used to emphasize God’s presence and involvement throughout the course of all human history.

Question 43

Typology is

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the study of patterns of Divine activity and foreshadowing as found in the Bible; it principally involves reading the Old Testament in light of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Question 44

A word relating to a social institution where the rulers, elders, leaders, and husbands are male (the term also relates to the persons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) is

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Patriarch or Patriarchal.

Question 45

what does the first three of the 10 commmandments do

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The first three of the ten refer directly to GOD.

Question 46

The Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches use an Old Testament that has

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46 books