Scripture & RecordScripture & Record

Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

Historical

  • Ruth

    Four chapters, a Moabite great-grandmother for David, and a dating debate that is genuinely open. Its placement in the canon is itself an interpretive act.

  • Bible Trivia: Women of the Bible

    Twelve questions on named women across both testaments — what each one did and where the text places her — at three levels, each answer worked through with the passage behind it.

  • Judges

    The least externally documented stretch of the whole narrative, a chronology that will not add up, and closing chapters this site declines to soften.

  • Bible Trivia for Kids

    Twelve gentle questions for classrooms and Sunday school, with a printable worksheet and a separate answer key for the teacher.

  • Joshua

    A conquest account, three competing models to explain it, and the most useful check of all: the first chapter of the next book, which says the land was not taken.

  • Bible Trivia: Moses

    Twelve questions on the life of Moses from the river to the far side of the Jordan, drawn from Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy rather than from the films.

  • Bible Trivia: The Exile and the Return

    Twelve questions on the fall of Jerusalem, the years in Babylon and the return under Persia — the period where the biblical account and the external record overlap most.

  • Bible Trivia: Kings and Prophets

    Twelve questions across three levels on the prophets who confronted the kings of Israel and Judah — every answer worked through, with the passage that settles it.