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Bible prophecy checked against the historical record

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  • Bible Trivia: Miracles in the Bible

    Twelve questions on the miracle accounts, at three levels — including the honest one about why a campaign leaves tablets and ruins while an event outside ordinary causation leaves neither.

  • Bible Trivia: The Temple

    Twelve questions on the temple: who built it, who rebuilt it, what the prophets said about it, and why the first temple has left no direct archaeological record at all.

  • Bible Trivia: The General Letters

    Twelve questions on Hebrews, James, Peter, John and Jude: which are anonymous, which reuses which, and which entered the canon latest and most reluctantly.

  • Bible Trivia: Jerusalem

    Twelve questions on Jerusalem: who took it and when, why 597 BCE is a date and 587 is a dispute, and what the ground can and cannot tell us about the temple.

  • Bible Trivia: Manuscripts and Translations

    Twelve questions on how the Bible reached us: the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, the great codices, P46, and the passage whose insertion can be traced document by document.

  • Bible Trivia: Archaeology and the Bible

    Twelve questions on the archaeology touching the Bible: the Kurkh Monolith, the Black Obelisk, the Lachish reliefs, the Cyrus Cylinder — and what each one really establishes.

  • Bible Trivia: The Letters of Paul

    Twelve questions on the Pauline letters, at three levels: the earliest surviving Christian document, the missing address in Ephesians, and the inscription that dates the whole chronology.

  • Bible Trivia: The Minor Prophets

    Twelve questions on the Book of the Twelve, at three levels, with every answer explained: who wrote what, which book fixes its own earliest date, and which one gives an examiner nothing to work with.

  • Bible Trivia: Bible Geography

    Twelve questions on the map behind the text — which town is where, which mountain hosted which scene, and what several familiar places were called before they were famous.

  • Bible Trivia: Which Prophet Wrote What

    Twelve questions on the prophets — which of them left a book and which did not, what each was told to do, and which vision belongs to whom.