Kings and empires
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Bible Trivia: Rome and the New Testament
Twelve questions on the empire the New Testament was written inside — governors, citizenship, taxes, and what Roman writers said about the Christians.
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Bible Trivia: Egypt and the Bible
Twelve questions on the state that ruled Canaan for centuries and left the earliest surviving mention of Israel — and on what its records never say.
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Bible Trivia: Babylon and the Exile
Twelve questions on the empire that took Jerusalem, the deportations, and the return — including the parts where the biblical numbers disagree with each other.
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Bible Trivia: Assyria and the Bible
Twelve questions on the empire that ended the northern kingdom and besieged the southern one — with every answer worked through against the Assyrian records themselves.
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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.
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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.
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Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem, 701 BCE
Two accounts of one campaign, written by the two sides, both surviving. They agree on the king, the cities, Lachish and the gold. They disagree on the silver and on how it ended — and the biblical text itself records…
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Bible Trivia: Kings of Israel and Judah
Twelve questions on the two royal lines that follow the split at Shechem — who reigned where, who was murdered by whom, and which king belongs to which kingdom.
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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.