Exam 1: What Is the Bible

The books of the Hebrew Bible were separated into chapters and verses in ancient times.

The books of the ____________________ are also designated "Deuterocanonical."

In Jewish tradition, all are parts of the Bible except:

The books of the Apocrypha are not included as a part of the Jewish canon because they were hidden from early Jewish communities.

The Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther are collectively known as the five _______________.

The thirty-nine books that make up the Jewish Tanakh and that are also included in all Christian versions of the Old Testament are known as:

For a book to be canonical in Jewish tradition, it must be written in:

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, was also the first book of the Bible to be written.

The word torah means:

In the Tanakh the book of ____________ is found in the Writings, but in the Christian canon it follows the book of Judges.

The _________________ is the Christian term for the books of the Jewish Bible.

The earliest manuscripts for the Hebrew Bible date from the ___________ century BCE.

The _____________________ is a category of noncanonical Jewish literature from the Hellenistic and Roman periods attributed to famous biblical characters.

All the books in the Hebrew Bible were accepted as canonical at the same time.

The _______________ Text is the stabilized version of the Hebrew Bible that eventually became the standard version.

The technical term for the official list of books comprising the Bible by a religious community is _________________.

According to legend, ___________ translators of the Torah independently produced identical translations and thus proved that the Septuagint was as inspired as the original.

In Jewish tradition, what are the three major divisions of the Hebrew Bible? What are the characteristics of the books found in each of these divisions? Describe the processes that led to the canonization of each of these components.

The distinction between the Minor Prophets differ from the Major Prophets is primarily based on ___________.

In the Christian canon the book of ______________ was moved from the Writings to the Latter Prophets.