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