Historicity of the Bible - Quiz
A) Around the 12th century BCE B) Around the 10th century BCE C) Around the 8th century BCE D) Around the 6th century BCE
A) Jerusalem and Shechem B) Cisjordan and Transjordan C) Israel and Philistia D) Judea and Samaria
A) Iron Age IIa B) Late Bronze Age C) Iron Age IIb D) Iron Age I
A) Foreign trade agreements B) Large gold and silver treasures C) Extensive written royal archives D) Fortified cities, literacy, and city planning
A) Simultaneously from a shared capital B) As colonies of Egypt C) As a single unified empire D) Separately and as distinct entities
A) Transjordan and Cisjordan B) Khirbet Qeiyafa and Judah C) Jerusalem and Samaria D) Shechem and Jerusalem
A) The Ophel B) Khirbet Qeiyafa C) The City of David D) Tel Dan
A) An urban society that existed in Judah in the late eleventh century BCE B) An uninhabited wasteland C) A Philistine fortress city D) A small country village from the eighth century BCE
A) The City of David B) The Ophel C) Khirbet Qeiyafa D) Upper Samaria
A) The Tel Dan Stele and Mesha Stele B) The Stepped Stone Structure and the Large Stone Structure C) The temple of Solomon D) The Ophel fortifications
A) William G. Dever B) Israel Finkelstein C) Avraham Faust D) Amihai Mazar
A) William G. Dever B) Israel Finkelstein C) Zev Farber D) Ussishkin
A) Ussishkin B) Avraham Faust C) Amihai Mazar D) Israel Finkelstein
A) The Israel Antiquities Authority B) William G. Dever and Amihai Mazar C) Israel Finkelstein and Ussishkin D) Avraham Faust and Zev Farber
A) The City of David and the Ophel B) Samaria and the Judean hills C) Tel Dan and Transjordan D) Khirbet Qeiyafa and Shechem
A) Iron Age IIa B) The 1990s C) July 1993 D) Late eleventh century BCE
A) The Bronze Age B) The 9th or 8th century BCE C) The late 11th century BCE D) The 10th century BCE
A) bytdwd B) Shechem and Jerusalem C) Cisjordan D) Upper Samaria
A) House of David B) Temple of Solomon C) Capital of Jerusalem D) United Monarchy
A) The Large Stone Structure B) The Stepped Stone Structure C) The Mesha Stele D) The Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription
A) That they only ruled a small country village in the Judean hills B) The existence of a polity ruled by them, on a more modest scale than described in the Bible C) That they never existed and were entirely mythical figures D) That they ruled a vast empire stretching from Egypt to Mesopotamia
A) Only the City of David and Khirbet Qeiyafa B) Large sections of Cisjordan and probably parts of Transjordan C) The entire Near East without exception D) Upper Samaria and Shechem exclusively
A) Current territories of Israel and West Bank B) Judea and Samaria as an empire C) All of Cisjordan and Transjordan D) Only Jerusalem and its immediate surroundings
A) The Moabites B) The Philistines C) The Ammonites D) The Egyptians
A) They were peacefully negotiated B) They were larger than described in the Bible C) They are historically proven by the Tel Dan Stele D) They are fictitious
A) Only regarding political history B) No C) Yes D) Only in the books of Moses
A) Rabbi Ishmael B) Rabbi Akiva C) W.F. Albright D) Abba Arika
A) Rabbi Ishmael B) Rabbi Akiva C) Abba Arika D) W.F. Albright
A) Abba Arika B) Abraham Joshua Heschel C) William Dever D) W.F. Albright
A) Infallibility B) Telepathy C) Chronology D) Ethnicity
A) Every single event in his life is scientifically verifiable B) He never actually existed as a person C) He wrote the gospels himself D) He was a historical figure crucified under Pontius Pilate
A) Pontius Pilate B) William G. Dever C) An unnamed biblical literalist D) Thomas L. Thompson
A) Biblical archaeology B) Biblical literalism C) Biblical minimalism D) Biblical maximalism
A) Scholasticism B) The Age of Enlightenment C) The Renaissance D) The Ionian Enlightenment
A) Tertullian B) Augustine C) Justin Martyr D) Faustus of Mileve
A) Faustus of Mileve B) Herodotus C) Augustine D) Tertullian
A) An infinite number B) Almost all of them C) Very few D) Very many
A) Fewer copies overall B) Higher consistency C) Greater length D) Lower consistency
A) Apocryphal volumes B) Text types C) Canon categories D) Enlightenment subsets
A) The myths of other religions B) The apocrypha C) The modern translation D) The hypothetical original
A) Thomas Hobbes B) Abraham ibn Ezra C) Baruch Spinoza D) Jean Astruc
A) Deuteronomy 34 B) Leviticus 10 C) Numbers 22 D) Genesis 1
A) Tractatus Theologico-Politicus B) The Pentateuch C) Leviathan D) Higher Criticism
A) 1651 B) 1678 C) 1753 D) 1670
A) Thomas Hobbes B) Baruch Spinoza C) Julius Wellhausen D) Jean Astruc
A) 1678 B) 1670 C) 1651 D) 1753
A) Julius Wellhausen B) Abraham ibn Ezra C) Richard Simon D) Jean Astruc
A) Julius Wellhausen B) Jean Astruc C) Thomas Hobbes D) Richard Simon
A) Four B) Three C) Five D) Two
A) Abraham ibn Ezra B) Jean Astruc C) Thomas Hobbes D) Julius Wellhausen
A) Hobbesian B) Ezraic C) Jahwist D) Mosaic
A) Historical B) Prophetic C) Elohist D) Traditionist
A) Mosaic B) Levitical C) Reformist D) Deuteronomist
A) Royal source B) Scribal source C) Prophetic source D) Priestly source
A) Prophetic poetry B) Literal scientific data C) Strict historical records D) Philosophical anthropology
A) James Hutton B) William Albright C) Martin Noth D) Charles Darwin
A) Adam Sedgwick B) John Van Seters C) David Ilan D) Hermann Gunkel
A) James Hutton B) William Dever C) Thomas L. Thompson D) Charles Darwin
A) A highly schematic literary work representing theology/symbolic mythology B) A legal contract from the Bronze Age C) An eyewitness account written by Adam D) A strictly accurate historical and scientific chronicle
A) William Albright B) St Augustine of Hippo C) Martin Heide D) Hermann Gunkel
A) Biblical archaeology movement B) Assyrian trade guild C) Tradition history school D) Evangelical literalist school
A) Hutton B) Albright C) Augustine D) Darwin
A) John Van Seters B) Maimonides C) Thomas L. Thompson D) Adam Sedgwick
A) Albright's B) Darwin's C) Hutton's D) Gunkel's
A) Literalist evangelical commentary B) Ancient oral tradition preservation C) The newer secular archaeology D) Traditional biblical archaeology
A) 200 years B) 100 years C) 40 years D) 430 years
A) 2.5 million B) 603,550 C) 22,273 D) 600,000
A) 600,000 B) 500,000 C) 2.5–3 million D) 10 million
A) William G. Dever B) Ronald Hendel C) Richard Elliott Friedman D) Kenton Sparks
A) Ronald Hendel B) Gili Kugler C) Donald Redford D) Kenton Sparks
A) Exodus 12 B) Genesis 46 C) Ezekiel 20 D) Deuteronomy 23
A) Greek B) Egyptian C) Persian D) Mesopotamian
A) Numbers 1 B) Exodus 12 C) Deuteronomy 23 D) Genesis 46
A) No information whatsoever B) Certain information C) Only fictional names D) Complete and flawless documentation
A) Strictly biographical B) Entirely factual C) Scientifically proven D) Legendary
A) Foreign languages B) Anachronisms C) Poetic verses D) Mathematical formulas
A) Every single individual B) None at all C) Only a negligible fraction D) A significant number
A) By guessing randomly B) Through modern media C) Solely through biblical text D) Independently
A) South American petroglyphs B) European runes C) East Asian hieroglyphics D) Northwest Semitic inscriptions
A) Modern newspaper articles B) Fictional novels C) Other archeological sources D) Oral myths from the 20th century
A) 1200 - 539 BC B) 1 AD - 500 AD C) 5000 - 4000 BC D) 1000 - 2000 AD
A) An ancient king B) An anonymous blogger C) A team of fictional writers D) Lawrence J. Mykytiuk
A) Hazor B) Beitin C) Tel ed-Duweir D) Jericho
A) Beitin B) Tel ed-Duweir C) Hazor D) Jericho
A) Piotr Bienkowski B) John Garstang C) Amnon Ben-Tor D) Lorenzo Nigro
A) Merneptah B) Amenhotep C) Thutmose D) Ramses
A) 1930s B) 1950s C) 1970s D) 1960s
A) Israel Finkelstein B) Kathleen Kenyon C) Lorenzo Nigro D) John Garstang
A) A stone fortification B) A mudbrick wall C) A wooden palisade D) An iron gate
A) Moses B) Joshua C) Deborah D) Jabin
A) Stratum III B) Stratum VII C) Stratum XIII D) Stratum X
A) Thutmose B) Ramses C) Merneptah D) Ibni Addi
A) Ibni B) Hazor C) Canaan D) Addi
A) John Garstang B) Amnon Ben-Tor C) Israel Finkelstein D) Sharon Zuckerman
A) 2005 B) 2012 C) 1998 D) 2018
A) Amnon Ben-Tor B) Kathleen Kenyon C) Richard Elliot Friedman D) Sharon Zuckerman
A) Moses B) Pharaoh Ramses C) The prophetess Deborah D) Joshua
A) Camels B) Donkeys C) Elephants D) Horses
A) Non-existent B) Average for the period C) Extremely small D) Gargantuan
A) Babylonians B) Assyrians C) Persians D) Kushites |
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