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CLAN: The beginning of the Hebrew race (Genesis chapters 12 to 50)

The Correct Answer is '1600'

The picture is from the Book of Judges in the Guttenberg Bible

Seven Cycles of Israel's sin, judgment and repentance are recorded. The book of Judges stands in stark contrast to the book of Joshua. In Joshua, Israel obeyed and followed God and the land had rest from war (Joshua 11: 23, 14: 15 etc.). In the book of Judges, however, the Israelites are idolatrous and disobedient and ultimately people did what was right in their own eyes (Judges 21: 25). About 15 judges were raised up to bring God's message time and time again. Some Key Verses of the Book of Judges is: Judges 2: 16-19; Judges 10: 15; Judges 21: 25. The book of Judges is a testament to God's faithfulness despite our unfaithfulness.

The picture shows part of the restored wall built by Nehemiah

This CONSTRUCTION period is found generally from Ezra to Esther.

The Book of Ezra is devoted to events occuring in the land of Israel at the time of the return from the Babylonian captivity and subsequent years, covering a period of approximately one century. Chief among the activities of this period is the building of the Temple under Zerubabel.The book of Nehemiah, possibly also written by Ezra details the building of the wall by Nehemiah. Both the books of Ezra and Nehemiah were originally one book which is why it is likely, as held by tradition, that Ezra wrote this composite piece later split into two books. The book of Esther was also written after the Babylonian exile. The author of the book of Esther is not known, but it was presumably either Mordecai, or Ezra or Nehemiah. Any one of them would have been familiar with Persian customs

The Correct Answer is 'Luke'.

Luke also wrote the Gospel according to Luke. Both the Gospel and the book of Acts are addressed to an individual named Theophilus.

CAPTIVITIES: A time-period in which Israel was taken Captive by Assyria and Babylon (2 Kings chapters 17 to 25)

CONFINEMENT: The Hebrew race in bondage in Egypt (Exodus chapters 1-19)

John Wycliffe (1330 - 1384) was a scholar, preacher and social reformer in England who spoke out against corruption in the Church and non-Biblical Church teachings. He wanted to make the Bible accessible to the common people instead of just the few scholars and clergymen who could read Latin. So, he took on the task of translating the Latin Vulgate into English.

The English Version of the Bible known under King James I of England was completed in 1611, printed by the King's Printer, Robert Barker and involving the scholarship of 47 scholars from the Church Of England

William Tyndale traslated several portions of the Bible into the English vernacular (common language) of his day. In 1526 he completed the printing of the complete New Testament. Much of his work later found its way into the King James Bible.

The picture is a fragment of the epistle to Philemon called Papyrus 87

"Papyrus 87 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), designed by ⁸⁷, is an early New Testament papyrus. It is the earliest known manuscript of the Epistle to Philemon. The surviving texts of Philemon are verses 13-15, 24-25. The manuscript paleographically had been assigned to the early 3rd century (or late 2nd century)." [From Wikipedia]

Onesimus was a runaway slave on behalf of whom Paul wrote to Philemon

The picture is a painting by James Jacques Tissot (French painter and illustrator, 1836-1902). This is showing the widow's mite. Nearly all of Tissot's paintings of the Life of Christ (1884-1896) are rendered in opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper and are owned by the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

The answer to the question is '1 Timothy'

By the way, the ring in the picture has the words "Jesus Saves" written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.

Most of the Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and some portions were written in Aramaic.

The entire New Testament was originally written in Greek.

Jerome translated the Bible into the Latin vernacular (common language) in the fourth century A.D. which came to be known as the Latin Vulgate. Latin, however, was not one of the original languages in which the Bible was written

The Gospel accounts of Matthew, Mark and Luke are very similar to each other and thus these three are called the synoptic gospels. The word 'synoptic' means "to see together with a common view." It is commonly held by scholars that Mark was the Gospel account written first and Matthew and Luke may have taken some material from Mark's gospel account. Luke records in Luke 1: 1-4 that many had undertaken to compile a narrative of all the events that transpired among them and he (Luke) felt that he also needed to compile an orderly account as well. This indicates that Luke may have referred to other accounts of the Life and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ, including possibly the Gospel according to Mark. We need to also recognize that the same Holy Spirit inspired all three of these writers so that they wrote accounts that are quite coherent and similar.

CAMPING: Unbelief in God forces the Israelites to wander in the wilderness for 40 years (Numbers)

The painting is by Jean Fouquet and is entitled The Taking of Jericho

CONQUEST: This is the time-period during which Israel conquered most of Canaan (Joshua)

The Correct Answer is 39

One may note 12 C's in the Old Testament which correspond to various portions of the Old Testament.

The 12 C words are: CREATION, CLAN, CONFINEMENT, COMMANDMENTS, CAMPING, COVENANT, CONQUEST, CYCLES, CROWNS, CHASM, CAPTIVITIES CONSTRUCTION

CREATION: The beginning of the human race (Genesis chapters 1 to 11)

CLAN: The beginning of the Hebrew race

CONFINEMENT: The Hebrew race in bondage in Egypt

COMMANDMENTS: Moses receives the 10 Commandments

CAMPING: Unbelief in God forces the Israelites to wander in the wilderness for 40 years

COVENANT: A new generation of Israelites are exhorted to love God

CONQUEST: This is the time-period during which Israel conquered most of Canaan

CYCLES: Seven Cycles are recorded, time-periods in which Israel repeatedly falls into sin, is judged, and repents

CROWNS: The united Kingdom of Israel under Saul, David and Solomon.

CHASM: A time-period in which the Kingdom of Israel was divided due to Solomon's sins

CAPTIVITIES: A time-period in which Israel was taken Captive by Assyria and Babylon

CONSTRUCTION: This is the time-period--a Construction period-- in which Judah returns to God and Jerusalem

Daniel is a Major Prophet.

The 12 books of the Minor Prophets are:

Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

The title 'Minor Prophets' originated in Augustine's time (late 4th century A.D.). These are called 'minor' only because these books are shorter than the books of the 'Major Prophets'. So note that the Minor Prophets were not Minor because they were inferior to the Major Prophets, but merely because they wrote less compared to what the Major Prophets wrote.

The picture visually depicts the Decalogue, or The Ten Commandments. It was created (painted) by Lucas Cranach the Elder who was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was a close friend of Martin Luther, the Reformer.

COMMANDMENTS: Moses receives The 10 Commandments (Exodus chapter 20)

The Correct Answer is 'The Books of Poetry'

There are 5 books considered books of Major Prophets and include: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel

Habakuk is considered a Minor Prophet.

There are 8 so-called General Epistles and include:

Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude

All of the so-called Prison Epistles were written by Paul and include Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon.

Ephesians is a treatise among other great subjects on the Church of Christ while Colossians would highlight the Christ of the Church. According to Ron Barnes, the main theme of Philippians is "Joy in Christ gives us Joy in Crisis". The main theme of Philemon is Brotherly Love. Paul wrote these Epistles during his first imprisonment when he was under house arrest (Acts 28: 30-31). Tychicus carried both the Epistles of Colossians and Ephesians to the respective churches (Colossians 4: 7-9; Ephesians 6: 21). Onesimus himself was sent to deliver the letter regarding himself to Philemon (Philemon 12, 15, 17). The letter to the Philippians mentions Paul's imprisonment and the hope of being released soon (Philippians 1: 7, 12-18; 2: 23). The mention of Cesar's household indicates that the imprisonment was likely in Rome (Philippians 4: 22)

The picture is by Remrandt entitled: David and King Saul. David plays the lyre (depicted here as a harp) to the king "tormented by an evil spirit"

The period which is designated CROWNS includes that time period in which the kingdom of Israel was still united under Saul, David and Solomon. The portions of Scripture corresponding with this time operiod is all of 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel and also 1 Kings chapters 1 through 11

CROWNS: The united Kingdom of Israel under Saul, David and Solomon. (1 Samuel to 1 Kings chapter 11)

The books of the Law written by Moses include:

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

A German goldsmith named Johann Gutenberg invented the movable type press in the 1440's and began production of his printed edition of the Latin Vulgate. Gutenberg lost his printing shop to financier Johann Fust in a 1455 lawsuit, but is believed to have completed the major part of the production prior to that time.

The following information is taken from greatsite.com:

"Between 1450 and 1455, the Gutenberg Bible was completed. Early documentation states that a total of 200 copies were scheduled to be printed on rag cotton linen paper, and 30 copies on velum animal skin. It is not known exactly how many copies were actually printed. Today, only 22 copies are known to exist, of which 7 are on velum."

"If an entire Gutenberg Bible should become available on the world market, it would likely fetch an estimated 100 million dollars! Even an individual leaf (a single two-sided page) from the original Gutenberg Bible can fetch around $100,000. Gutenberg’s work is the most rare and valuable printed material in the world." [Information taken from Greatsite.com]

One way of remembering the number of books in the Bible, the Old Testament and the New Testament is:

The Old Testament is made up of 39 books. 3 multiplied by 9 is 27 which is the number of books in the New Testament. 39 + 27 = 66.

Also remember that the Book of Isaiah also has 66 chapters.

The picture is created by Chris Harrison and is a visual depiction of all the chapters in the Bible.

"The bar graph that runs along the bottom represents all of the chapters in the Bible. Books alternate in color between white and light gray. The length of each bar denotes the number of verses in the chapter. Each of the 63,779 cross references found in the Bible is depicted by a single arc - the color corresponds to the distance between the two chapters, creating a rainbow-like effect."

There are 1189 chapters in the Bible. The middle chapter is likely Psalm 118. There are 929 chapters in the Old Testament and 260 chapters in the New Testament.

There are 31, 173 Verses in the entire Bible.

King James commissioned a group of 47 scholars to produce a new English version of the Bible, and the work began in 1604 and it was first published in 1611. The translators were masters of English style, and the KJV has enjoyed wide public acceptance among Protestants to this day. In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from the Textus Receptus (Received Text) series of the Greek texts. The Old Testament was translated from the Masoretic Hebrew text.

The book of Hebrews as well as the Letter of James was written to Hebrew Christians but not necessarily to a specific church

The Letters written to specific churches are written by Paul and include: Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians

Note that the Book of Revelation is a book of Prophecy and has 7 churches mentioned within it, called the Seven Churches of Asia Minor, which also had specific messages from the Lord Jesus written to them by the hand of the apostle John

The shortest verse is John 11: 35--"Jesus wept".

1 Chronicles 1: 25 is the second shortest verse in the Bible--'Eber, Peleg, Reu.'

The longest verse in the Bible is Esther 8: 9

The picture shown is part of the Dead Sea Scrolls Collection and is called the Dead Sea Psalms Scroll.

According to Wikipedia, "The Dead Sea scrolls consist of about 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Qumran Wadi near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include some of the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 BCE and preserve evidence of late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus. These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE to 70 CE."

There are 12 books of history in the Old Testament:

Joshua, Juges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

All of the so-called Pastoral Epistles were written by Paul and there are only three:

1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus

CHASM: A time-period in which the Kingdom of Israel was divided due to Solomon's sins--having multiple wives and serving false gods. (1 Kings 12 to 2 Kings 16)

The Correct Answer is 27

The Correct Answer is 'Deuteronomy'

The Correct Answer is 'Approximately 2500 times'

There were 5 Epistles written to individuals and thay include:

1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, 3 John

The picture is depicting Moses beginning his second discourse (Deuteronomy chapters 5 to 26)

COVENANT: A new generation of Israelites are exhorted to love God (Deuteronomy)

The book of Ezra falls under History. The Books of Poetry in the Old Testament are:

Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

The New Testament begins with the four Gospel accounts of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Please note that there is only one Gospel and 4 gospel accounts written by 4 different men. While Jesus Christ is the Perfect Prophet, that was not John's main message.

John's main message is--Jesus Christ as God manifest in the flesh. He shows that Jesus' miracles prove His deity (i.e. prove the fact that He is God) so we need to trust Him alone for eternal life.

The book of Nehemiah is considered among the Historical Books of the Old Testament. Note that there are 12 books of history in the Old Testament--from Joshua to Esther. Isaiah and Jeremiah are classified among the Major Prophets and Zephaniah is classified among the Minor Prophets