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First man in the bible?

Posted Tuesday 12 July 2011 ~ 2:24pm

Did you know that the first man in the bible is a Scotsman?

- King James.

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James bible we held an exhibition.  Members of the church brought the exhibits: family bibles with details about ancestors, old bibles; bibles that had been given on a special occasion; bibles that had been helpful (we allowed other versions than the Authorised) and one Elizabethan bible and prayer book asking for prayers for ‘her gracious majesty’

There was a lot that was interesting - the man whose grandfather had got off the land (being a tenant farmer) and found a more prosperous living in the then developing railways and the three generations of his descendants who still are members at Holy Trinity; the great grandfather who made a note in the margin beside his grandmother’s name -“she taught me how to shoot”; foreign bibles that had been used by missionaries; picture bibles with vivid impressions of heros from the Hebrew Scriptures; tiny print and huge monastic parchments .. it was all here.

Despite the rain there was quite a lot of interest and we served teas outside in a marquee.  Visitors were invited to take a bible quiz or, if they had a name that was in the bible, to sign a cloth that was stitched into an altar cloth.

We had a great time - learning the important part the English translations have played in shaping our faith and culture.

Here is the quiz:

Holy Trinity Church
King James Bible Exhibition

1. “In the beginning….” are the opening words of two of the books of the Bible.  Do you know which two?  Do you know the words which follow?

2. Some very well-known phrases come from the King James Bible.  Which of the following are not from the Bible?

    …fat of the land…
…filthy lucre…
…eat, drink and be merry…
…wars and rumours of wars…
…ends of the earth…
…a stiff-necked people…
…skin of my teeth…
…reap the whirlwind…
…pearls before swine…
…the patience of Job…

3. Now for some numbers:

How many Gospels?
How many books of the prophets?
How many books of the Bible are named after women?
Where does the Book of Numbers come in the Bible
   

4. There are lots of animals and birds mentioned in the Bible.  Can you match these people with the creature most associated with them?

Daniel raven
Jonah lamb
Elijah whale
Eve lion
Jesus serpent

5. Many, many people are named in the Bible. A lot of these names   are still in frequent use, though some are now rare.  All the names below come from the Bible.  Do you know which are from the Old Testament and which are from the New Testament?

Naomi Samuel
Hannah Philemon
Leah Caleb
Dorcas Barnabas
Deborah Simon
Elizabeth Aaron

   
6. There are lots of exciting stories in the Bible.  Do you know who
 
a) floated on the Nile in a basket of bulrushes?
b) fought a duel with a giant of a man and killed him with a stone from a slingshot?
c) escaped from Damascus by being lowered down the city walls in a basket?

7. The King James Bible was the work of 47 translators.  Do you
know how long they worked on their translation?

8. From what languages did the translators work?

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

1. Genesis and the Gospel of St John.  The Genesis passage continues “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…” and the Gospel of St John continues “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.”

2. They all are!

Fat of the land Genesis 45v18
Filthy lucre Timothy 3v3
Eat, drink and be merry Luke 12v19
Wars and rumours of wars Matthew 24v6
Ends of the earth Psalm 65v5
A stiffnecked people Exodus 33v3
The skin of my teeth Job 19v20
Reap the whirlwind Hosea 8v7
Pearls before swine Matthew 7v7
The patience of Job James 5v11
 
3. There are 4 gospels.  Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
There are 16 books named after prophets, but 17 books classed as prophets – the Lamentations of Jeremiah being the extra one.
Ruth and Esther are the only two books named after women.
The book of Numbers comes in the Old Testament after Leviticus and before Deuteronomy.

    4. Daniel lion
Jonah whale
Elijah raven
Eve serpent
Jesus lamb

5. Naomi, Hannah, Leah and Deborah are in the Old Testament and   Elizabeth and Dorcas in the New Testament.
Samuel, Caleb and Aaron are Old Testament names and Philemon, Barnabas and Simon are in the New Testament.

6. Moses (Exodus 2v3 and v10), David (1 Samuel 17v49) and St Paul (Acts 9v25)

7. The Committee was set up in 1604 and the Bible published in 1611.

8. The translators used texts in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic.  The
Latin Vulgate was also referred to, as were earlier English translations, especially the Bishops’ Bible and the Geneva Bible.

 

   

 

 

 

 

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