Bible crossword puzzle: The world of the New Testament
Based on material in chapter 18, Discovering the Bible by Alex Varughese
Challenge: Can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book by
Varughese?
"I found this fun, and I learned while doing it." -- Joshua H., Nazarene Bible College
student
ACROSS
- 2 A Jewish religious movement which built a community at Qumran and wound up
hiding their scrolls in jars in nearby caves during a Roman invasion
- 6 Religious institution established during the Babylonian Exile which became the
center of the study and teaching of the Torah
- 9 When Paul said in Galatians 4:4 that the coming of Jesus into the world took
place
- 10 A Jewish religious group which required strict adherence to both written and
oral Law, including the interpretations handed down by generations of great rabbis; they believed
in the coming of the Messiah and the resurrection of the dead
- 11 Center of Jewish sacrificial worship destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70
DOWN
- 1 A fanatical revolutionary political movement that opposed the foreign rule of
Judea by the Romans
- 3 These descendants of Assyrian colonists and Israelites were viewed by most Jews
as a mixed and defiled people who did not belong to their nation
- 4 The spreading of Greek language and culture
- 5 A king of Judea who was a skillful and cunning diplomat, a military strategist and
a ruthless and murderous ruler (he was in power when Jesus was born)
- 6The Jewish supreme court which handled all religious violations and breaking of
the rules of the Torah
- 7A Jewish religious group which considered the Books of Moses as their central
authority; they promoted the Temple as necessary for the existence of Judaism while also
rejecting concepts such as resurrection, angels, demons and future reward
- 8 Festival of Lights which celebrates the cleansing and re-dedication of the
Jerusalem Temple at the end of the Maccabean war (during the period between the Old and New
Testaments)
This crossword puzzle was created for use in the course Introduction to Biblical Literature.
The words and clues come from the textbook Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the
Biblical Communities edited by Alex Varughese and published by Beacon Hill Press of
Kansas City, now called The Foundry.
-- Howard Culbertson,
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