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LUOA Apologetics Quiz Week Eighteen

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What is thematic unity in reference to the Old Testament?
Common themes that run throughout the Old Testament.
About how many authors are there for the 39 Old Testament books?
30
What time period was the Old Testament written over?
About 1,100 years
Although the writers of the Old Testament books came from various walks of life, choose four different occupations below that Old Testament writers held.
Judge
Prophet
King
Leader
The Old Testament was written over a period of approximately 1,100 years, from about 1500 - 400 B.C.
Answer 1:1500
Answer 2:400
Identify four common themes that run throughout the Old Testament books.
Every book points to Jesus.
God desires to bless his people.
Sins must be atoned for.
God uses those who aren't necessarily qualified.
After the initial discovery was made in 1947 by a Bedouin shepherd boy, archaeologists uncovered over [ Select ] ["2,500", "1,900", "9,000", "900"] manuscripts in [ Select ] ["4", "39", "21", "11"] different caves, some which dated as far back as 200 B.C. These manuscripts came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Answer 1:900
Answer 2:11
Answer 3:200
When they were found, the Dead Sea Scrolls contained verses from every book of the Old Testament except for one. Which book is this?
Esther
How similar is the modern Old Testament to the Dead Sea Scrolls? What are the main differences?
95% - spelling and grammar
After archaeologists conducted a number of digs in the mid-1900s in Jericho, they found four key things that verified the historical events of the Joshua 6 account of the destruction of this city. What are these four key things?
the walls were leveled
the city was burned
the siege was short
the city was once strongly fortified
The stone found in Tel Dan had what phrase engraved on it?
"house of David"
The historicity of the Assyrian king, Sargon (Isaiah 20:1), was called into question for a number of years. What did archaeologists discover in Iraq that confirmed his existence as a historical figure?
Sargon's palace
For a number of years, skeptical historians doubted whether Nehemiah rebuilt the walls in Jerusalem after the Israelites returned from Babylonian exile. In 2007, archaeologists confirmed the historicity of this event when they uncovered the very thing that Nehemiah actually rebuilt.
Answer 1:walls
Answer 2:Jerusalem
What is ancient testimony in regards to the Old Testament?
Testimony from outside the Old Testament that affirms it to be Scripture.
The apostle Paul, in the 1st century A.D., stated that the Old Testament had been " [ Select ] ["sought", "breathed", "written", "head"] out by [ Select ] ["humans", "angels", "God", "man"] ."
Answer 1:breathed
Answer 2:God
What did Peter say about Old Testament prophets/prophecy in 2 Peter 1:21?
Prophecy came from God.
At the time of Jesus, Jews were using the same Old Testament that we use today as Christians. What first century Jewish historian helped us to make this connection?
Josephus
How many Old Testament books did Jesus quote from? While walking on the road to Emmaus alongside two men, what did Jesus say every Old Testament book was about?
24; himself
What does the Prologue to Ecclestiacus state about the Old Testament?
It is to be divided into three parts; these are the same parts the Hebrew Bible is divided into.
Choose the word below that fills in the blank in the following sentence. The Council of ________ (teaching house of rabbis) in 90 A.D. affirmed the Hebrew Old Testament to be Scripture (same OT we use today as Christians).
Jamnia
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