Bible 101 Class Notes

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2 Tim. 3:16-17  

The word Bible comes from the Greek word ___________, which means ____________. __________ is a
plant used for making paper.

God’s word was originally passed on by ________________.

Storytellers and entertainers would travel from village to village telling the wondrous stories of Almighty
God. As people became familiar with the stories it is likely that they would not allow storytellers to add to
or take away from the original story. This is very similar to how children today monitor and supervise the
familiar stories that their parents read to them.

_________ is the first person identified as a writer in Bible.

Moses time was around ________.

________, _________, _________, _________, & ____________ are the books associated with Moses
according to Jewish tradition.

Some scholars think that ________ may have written about himself in Genesis a few hundred years before
Moses. _________ came from the Persian Gulf region where writing was about 1000 years old.

Most of the Old Testament is written in __________.

Hebrew means _________________________.

A few sections of the Old Testament are written in ___________. ___________ is similar to Hebrew. In
fact, it is a language that the Jews picked up while exiled in Babylon .

______________ conquered the Middle East in the 300’s BC. _______ then became the primary language
of that part of the world.

Around 200 BC an Egyptian king decided to create some new holdings for his library in Alexandria .
Legend has it he asked the high priest in Jerusalem to loan him about 70 top scholars who would translate
the revered books of Moses into Greek. The result was the first _______ translation. It became known as
the ___________ (meaning 70). Over the next 100 years the rest of the Hebrew Bible was translated into
Greek.

When New Testament writers quoted the Old Testament, they quoted from the Greek.

Jews have a wide array of revered books, so no one knows exactly when the books that make up the Old
Testament were decided upon.

There were a group of books called the _____________ that were published in the popular Greek
translation. However, these books were eventually eliminated, partly because of the question of
___________ and partly because they were not originally written in __________. However, these books
do appear in the Roman Catholic& Eastern Orthodox Bibles.

Bible 101 Lesson 1

The Old Testament is broken up into 5 sections.

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Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

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Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Esther

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Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Song of Sol.

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Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

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Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zechariah

Malachi