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  • 1. When was the first Spanish translation of the Bible made?
A) 1553
B) 1569
C) ca. 1280
D) 1430
  • 2. What term is used in Spanish scientific literature for medieval Bible translations?
A) Biblia del Oso
B) Ladino texts
C) biblias romanceadas
D) Reina-Valera
  • 3. Which manuscript translation was created in 1430?
A) Vetus Latina
B) Ferrara Bible
C) Alba Bible
D) Textus Receptus
  • 4. What was the Ferrara Bible (1553) printed in?
A) Syriac script
B) Latin characters
C) Hebrew characters
D) Judaeo-Greek script
  • 5. Who was the Ferrara Bible dedicated to?
A) Casiodoro de Reina
B) Francisco de Enzinas
C) Duke Ercole II d'Este
D) Cipriano de Valera
  • 6. Why were restrictions placed on private ownership of Spanish Bibles?
A) Because they contained errors
B) Because they were too expensive
C) To promote Latin usage
D) As a measure against Protestantism
  • 7. What is the classic Spanish translation of the Bible?
A) Alba Bible
B) Ferrara Bible
C) Reina-Valera
D) Enzinas Bible
  • 8. Who authored the first whole Bible in Spanish printed in 1569?
A) Casiodoro de Reina
B) Juan Pérez de Pineda
C) Francisco de Enzinas
D) Cipriano de Valera
  • 9. What nickname is given to the 1569 Spanish Bible?
A) Biblia del Oso
B) Biblia del Rey
C) Biblia del León
D) Biblia del Papa
  • 10. Where was the first whole Bible in Spanish printed?
A) Geneva
B) London
C) Amsterdam
D) Basel
  • 11. Which Greek text was the New Testament of the 1569 Bible likely derived from?
A) Vetus Latina
B) Syriac manuscripts
C) Textus Receptus
D) Ferrara Bible
  • 12. Who published New Testament portions in Geneva in 1556?
A) Cipriano de Valera
B) Francisco de Enzinas
C) Juan Pérez de Pineda
D) Casiodoro de Reina
  • 13. When was the first Reina-Valera print published?
A) 1569
B) 1596
C) 1602
D) 1603
  • 14. What is the Reina-Valera Bible widely regarded as the Spanish equivalent of?
A) Vulgate
B) Geneva Bible
C) King James Version
D) Septuagint
  • 15. What divine name is used in most Reina-Valera revisions in the Old Testament?
A) El Eterno
B) El Señor
C) Jehová
D) Adonai
  • 16. Which revision of the Reina-Valera uses 'El Eterno'?
A) 1960
B) 1990
C) 1602
D) 2011
  • 17. Which organization authorizes the use of the Reina-Valera in its Spanish services?
A) Episcopal Church
B) Lutheran Church
C) Orthodox Church
D) Catholic Church
  • 18. What was the purpose of the 'Monterrey Revision Project'?
A) To replace Jehovah with Yahweh
B) To remove the Apocrypha
C) To modernize Spanish spelling
D) Revision according to the Textus Receptus
  • 19. Where were Bibles printed for Sephardi Jews using Ladino and Judaeo-Greek?
A) London and Amsterdam
B) Rome and Florence
C) Madrid and Toledo
D) Constantinople and Salonica
  • 20. Who revised the Bible translation of Casiodoro de Reina?
A) Cipriano de Valera
B) Duke Ercole II
C) Juan Pérez de Pineda
D) Francisco de Enzinas
  • 21. Which ecclesiastical council decreed the Catholic canonical text infallibly in 1570?
A) Council of Trent
B) Synod of Rome
C) Council of Carthage
D) Council of Hippo
  • 22. Which Spanish Bible translation is considered by traditionalist Catholics to be the best?
A) Nácar-Colunga
B) Biblia Latinoamericana
C) Torres Amat
D) Jerusalem Bible
  • 23. How does the Jerusalem Bible render the divine name in the Old Testament?
A) El Señor
B) Adonai
C) Dios
D) Yahvé
  • 24. In what year was the first complete Catholic Bible printed in Spanish?
A) 1944
B) 1280
C) 1785
D) 1823
  • 25. Which organization approved the ecumenical version 'Dios Habla Hoy' for study purposes?
A) United Bible Societies
B) The Holy See
C) Spanish Episcopal Conference
D) CELAM
  • 26. What is the primary reason for avoiding the use of 'Dios Habla Hoy' in liturgy?
A) Claims of inaccurate translations in key passages
B) It uses archaic Spanish
C) It is not approved by the Pope
D) It lacks the Deuterocanonical books
  • 27. What was the first version of the Bible translated into Castilian Spanish?
A) Torres Amat
B) Nácar-Colunga
C) Alfonsine
D) Pre-Alfonsine
  • 28. Which king commissioned the Alfonsine version of the Bible?
A) Alfonso XII
B) Alfonso X
C) Alfonso XI
D) Alfonso VI
  • 29. Who identified the canonical text confirmed by the Synod of Rome in 382?
A) Saint Jerome
B) Pope Damasus I
C) Pope Francis
D) Alfonso X
  • 30. The Nácar-Colunga translation was first published in which year?
A) 1951
B) 1944
C) 1947
D) 1972
  • 31. What distinguishes the Catholic Bibles regarding the source text?
A) They are only translated from modern Spanish
B) They exclude the Deuterocanonical books
C) Contain the entire canonical text identified by early councils
D) They are exclusively translated from Greek
  • 32. In what year was 'Las Sagradas Escrituras, Versión Israelita Nazarena' published?
A) 2013
B) 2010
C) 2012
D) 2011
  • 33. How is the Messiah's name rendered in the Versión Israelita Nazarena?
A) Yahoshua
B) Yahweh
C) Yeshua
D) Jesus
  • 34. What is the Hebrew word 'mal’ākhīm' translated as in the Versión Israelita Nazarena?
A) profeta
B) ángel
C) espíritu
D) mensajero
  • 35. Who authored the 1989 English translation that became the 'Nuevo Testamento Judío' published in 2011?
A) Dr. David H. Stern
B) Casiodoro de Reina
C) Cipriano de Valera
D) J.A. Alvarez
  • 36. Which organization published 'La Biblia de las Américas'?
A) The Lockman Foundation
B) United Bible Societies
C) Tyndale Español
D) Thomas Nelson
  • 37. From which language was the 1966 'Biblia de Jerusalén' translated?
A) Hebrew
B) Latin
C) French
D) English
  • 38. In what year was the 'Nueva Versión Internacional' (NVI) published?
A) 1992
B) 1999
C) 1989
D) 2003
  • 39. Who published the 'Nueva Traducción Viviente' (NTV) in 2010?
A) Tyndale Español
B) Sociedad Bíblica Emanuel
C) Thomas Nelson
D) Editorial Mundo Hispano
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