Chapter 1 Self-Quiz

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

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

. The Latter Prophets are the books named after individual prophets.

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

. The Torah was probably the first division of the Bible to gain canonical status.

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

. 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:

. The Former Prophets begin with the divine appointment of ______________ as leader of Israel.

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

. The word torah means:

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

. Which book is found in the Apocrypha?

. The Council of ____________ in 1546 decreed that all forty-six books of the Old Testament, including the Apocrypha, were canonical and equally authoritative.

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