Fundamentals I Flashcards
The earliest known Sumerian limestone tablet is from about ______________.
3500 B.C.
Egyptian hieroglyphics were in a developmental stage about ___________.
3000 B.C.
_________ was the material used earliest in most any region.
Stone
What was the primary material used for writing in Assyria and Babylon?
Clay
What is seen historically as the primary material used by the Hebrews?
Leather
The most important feature of vellum and parchment is its ____________.
Durability
If the material used was clay a __________ was used to write; if the material was used was papyrus, a _________ was used to write.
Stylus / Reed
The word “Biblia” means _________.
Book
The first person, biblically, to whom something written was attributed was ________ in _________.
Moses / 1500 B.C.
The Latin Vulgate was derived from the _______.
LXX
What was the three-fold division of the OT, as recorded in Luke 24:44?
Law, Prophets and the Psalms
After Babylonian Exile (c. 500 B.C.) _________ became the common man’s language in Palestine.
Aramaic
What phrase uttered by Jesus is an example of the use of Aramaic in the NT?
Talitha Cumi
Who said, “That Book is the rock on which this republic rests?
Andrew Jackson
Who said, “The first and almost the only book deserving of Universal distinction is the Bible”?
John Quincy Adams
