This is Your Quiz!

Here is a quiz for readers who have been following Just Genesis for a few years. New readers of Just Genesis will find this challenging, but go for it!


Multiple Choice.

Who was Peleg's brother?
A. Dedan
B. Joktan
C. Ramaah
D. None of the above.


What does Terah mean?
A. priest
B. idol worshiper
C. foreigner
D. warrior


What was Abraham's ethnicity?
A. Horite
B. Habiru
C. Hebrew
D. All of the above


How many sons did Abraham have?
A. 2
B. 5
C. 7
D. 9


When did Noah's flood happen?
A. about 4500 years ago
B. about 6500 years ago
C. about 10,000 years ago
D. about 12,000 years ago


The Biblical description of Noah's flood represents...
A. the perspective of Noah and his descendants
B. the account of the Biblical author
C. the collective memory of Moses' Horim
D. All of the above


The answers are here.


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Answers to the Quiz

Here are the answers to the most recent quiz:


Multiple Choice.

Who was Peleg's brother?
A. Dedan
B. Joktan   This is Joktan (Yaqtan) the Elder. Joktan is also the name of Abraham's firstborn son.
C. Ramah
D. None of the above.


What does Terah mean?
A. priest   Tera is an Ainu word meaning priest. Abraham's father was a priest.
B. idol worshiper
C. foreigner
D. warrior


What was Abraham's ethnicity?
A. Horite
B. Habiru
C. Hebrew
D. All of the above  The Horites were a caste or ruler-priests who were called "ha-biru." They were temple attendants in the ancient Afro-Asiatic world. Habiru (hbr) was rendered "Hebrew" in English Bibles.


How many sons did Abraham have?
A. 2
B. 5
C. 7
D. 9  The Septuagint lists Eliezar as a son of Abraham, son of his concubine Masek.


When did Noah's flood happen?
A. about 4500 years ago   Noah's deluge took place during the late Holocene Wet Period in Africa.
B. about 6500 years ago
C. about 10,000 years ago
D. about 12,000 years ago


The Biblical description of Noah's flood represents...
A. the perspective of Noah and his descendants
B. the account of the Biblical author
C. the collective memory of Moses' Horim (the Horites)
D. All of the above   Moses was a descandant of Noah and Abraham. Moses' family was Horite.



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Test Your Knowledge of Genesis

Take the Genesis Trivia Quiz here:

http://christianity.about.com/od/bibletriviaquizes/qt/genesisquiz2.htm


When you are finished, make note of the answers. The answers to numbers 2, 6 and 10 are especially interesting.

Answer #2 - Probably not the person named.

Answer #6 - Incorrect. Canaan is the correct answer, and he was not a son in the literal sense.

Answer #10 - And remember that blood line was factored through the mother, not the father. This means that we should be curious about Tamar's clan, tribe, etc.


Now for an ADVANCED LEVEL QUIZ:

What does the name 'Tamar" mean?

What does the name 'Keturah' mean?

Where did Abraham pitch his tent between Ai and Bethel?

What does the word "Moreh" mean?


ANSWERS:

Tamar means date palm. The date palm was a symbol of fertility.

Keturah means perfume. Keturah, Abraham's cousin bride, was a descendent of Sheba and so was Abraham. There appears to be a relationship between the Sheba clans and the Ketu Clans of the Jebusites.

Abraham pitched his tent near the Oak of Moreh. Teachers, prophets or seers sat under great oaks and date palms. These could be seen for miles away. People came to these trees to meet with the seers associated with them.

Moreh means one who know and instructs, or in a later idiom, one who gives torah. We might render this as prophet or seer.


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