Old Testament Books by Topic

Question 1

Who fathered the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian peoples?

Answer 1

Abraham

Question 2

What is the saving action of God throughout human history?

Answer 2

Salvation History

Question 3

Who are the ancestors of the Israelites (Abraham and his son, Isaac, and his grandson, Jacob, and Jacob’s sons and grandsons)?

Answer 3

Patriarchs

Question 4

What starts Friday at sunset and ends on Saturday at sunset?

Answer 4

Sabbath

Question 5

What is the manner in which Christians honored the commandment to keep holy the Sabbath?

Answer 5

Lord’s Day

Question 6

How has God communicate himself and his plan of goodness throughout history?

Answer 6

Divine Revelation

Question 7

What is the written record of God’s revelation?

Answer 7

The Bible

Question 8

What is a sacred agreement with Old Testament figures such as Noah, Abraham, and others?

Answer 8

Covenant

Question 9

What represent the basic prescriptive moral laws given by God?

Answer 9

The Ten Commandments

Question 10

What means the second canon?

Answer 10

Deuterocanonical

Question 11

What is the belief in one God?

Answer 11

Monotheism

Question 12

What did Jesus become through his sacrifice and death on the cross?

Answer 12

Passover Lamb

Question 13

What was the Israelites passing through the water of the Red Sea to freed by Moses’s guidance?

Answer 13

Exodus

Question 14

What is the natural part of God’s design that is “engraved in our hearts”?

Answer 14

Natural Moral Law

Question 15

What does the natural moral law help us to do?

Answer 15

Discern good and evil through the use of reason

Question 16

What is Jesus’ fulfillment of the law of Moses by giving a new law of love?

Answer 16

New Covenant

Question 17

Who was the New Covenant extended to?

Answer 17

Everyone everywhere

Question 18

What is the Church?

Answer 18

The people of God and the Body of Christ

Question 19

Who are God’s chosen people?

Answer 19

Israelites

Question 20

What are the founding mothers of the people of Israel called? Ex: (Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel and Leah, and now Mary)

Answer 20

Matriarchs

Question 21

What is worshiping many gods?

Answer 21

Polytheism

Question 22

What is Israel’s holiest relic? It is a symbol of God’s protection and presence, his throne in his dwelling place in the tabernacle.

Answer 22

The Ark of the Covenant

Question 23

What is the Hebrew word that means “law”?

Answer 23

Torah

Question 24

What is the Greek work that means “five books”?

Answer 24

Pentateuch

Question 25

When did God's angel of death strike down the first borns of the Egyptians, but passed over the homes of the Israelites?

Answer 25

Passover

Question 26

What is the account of Jewish histroy from the conquest of Canaan to the kingdom of the Maccabees called?

Answer 26

The historical books

Question 27

What are the poetry about religion and love, collections of wise sayings, and the book of Job called?

Answer 27

The wisdom books

Question 28

What are the visions and sermons of a group of Jewish religious reformers called?

Answer 28

The prophetic books

Question 29

What is the explanation or critical interpretation of a passage of sacred scripture?

Answer 29

Biblical Exegesis

Question 30

What is a form of writing that describes the destruction of evil and the coming of God's reign?

Answer 30

Apocalyptic Literature

Question 31

Where is the true message of Jesus as discerned through the Apostolic Tradition of the Church recorded?

Answer 31

The canon of the New Testament

Question 32

What is the Greek word which means "reed" or "measuring stick"?

Answer 32

Kanon

Question 33

What is the establishment of God's relationship with his people through a sacred covenant called? God gives the major moral obligation and prescriptions in the Ten Commandments.

Answer 33

The Law

Question 34

What is the process by which God the Holy Spirit assisted a human author in writing a book of the Bible?

Answer 34

Biblical Inspiration

Question 35

What is the official collection of inspired books of sacred scripture that contain the witness and instruction for our faith?

Answer 35

Canon

Question 36

What word means "seventy"?

Answer 36

Septuagint

Question 37

What is the Greek word that means "a going out"?

Answer 37

Exodus

Question 38

How did historical chronicles, genealogies, laws, and other kinds of cultural lore pass down for one generation to the next?

Answer 38

Oral Tradition

Question 39

What is the representation of abstract or intangible things called?

Answer 39

Symbolism

Question 40

What type of brief narrative fully develops characters and a plot?

Answer 40

Short Story

Question 41

What is a detailed history of a hero who demonstrates both bravery and wisdom and goes through a series of trials?

Answer 41

Epic

Question 42

What is a short illustrative story that teaches a moral or religious lesson, often through the use of comparisons?

Answer 42

Parable

Question 43

What type of literature can be fictitious or true and can illuminate a detail within a genealogy which might otherwise be overlooked?

Answer 43

Narrative

Question 44

What refers to the concrete sensory details that make a literary work vivid and realistic?

Answer 44

Imagery

Question 45

What were written to reveal God's activity in the world?

Answer 45

Historical Accounts

Question 46

What is an explanation of how something came to be called?

Answer 46

Origin Story

Question 47

What literature is attributed to King David, who was a musician, poet, and political leader?

Answer 47

Psalms

Question 48

What is a composite of traditional customs, art forms, tales, and sayings preserved among people called?

Answer 48

Folklore

Question 49

What are words of wisdom or advice given by God through a spokesperson called?

Answer 49

Oracles

Question 50

What is a symbolic story that illustrates views of particular people regarding the relationship between humans and the divine? The stories are universal rather than mainly historical and communicate a reality that transcends experience.

Answer 50

Myth