Religious activities

Key Unit Competence: Describe the structure of the sacred books and 

highlight their importance in spiritual growth 

and worship

Introductory Activity

Latifah, John and Christian are students in a one of teacher training 

colleges in Rwanda. They often attend the school library to read different 

books in order to supplement their information and knowledge. Latifah 

and Christian are used to read scientific, literary and the Holy Scriptures. 

John also does the same but he never read the Holy scriptures. He always 

blames his classmates about wasting of time in reading the Holy sciptures. 

By the end of term Latifah and Christian receive their school reports with 

good marks but John gets failure in behaviour.

1. Do you think Latifah and Christian performed well in discipline and 

John failed?

2. How do Holy Scriptures influence the behaviour of Latifafh and 

Christian?

3. Why are some writings called Holy Scriptures?

4. The Holy Scriptures are said to be Word of God,do you think God 

took materials and wrote it Himself? Explain.

5. What do you think is based on to structure or to group the biblical 

books? 

6. What is the importance of Holy Scriptures at home, at school and 

in life in general

1.1. Holy Scriptures concepts

1.1. Learning activities: 

1. Basing on your personal experience and using various resources, 

research on the meaning of Holy Scriptures and give some 

examples.

2. What do you think was the process of their writing?

3. Discuss their importance to individual, school community and 

society in general. introduce their friends when together they meet 

new people.

Religious texts or Holy Scriptures are those sacred and central to the teachings 

of almost every given religion. They are significant as these almost every 

given religion. They are significant as these texts convey spiritual truth, 

establish a connection with the divine, foster communal identity, and provide 

the promotion of mystical experiences and spiritual practices.

1.1.1. Bible

Etymologically the word Bible comes from plural Greek “ta biblia” that means 

books or a collection of books, a library. Its singular “to biblion” gives name 

Bible. The Bible is then a collection of books of Word of God consists of the 

Old and New Testament. Bible is therefore a compilation of books considered 

as one book.

1.1.2. Testament

The term Testament came from Latin “testamentum” meaning Alliance or 

covenant: it is defined as treaty for mutual advantages: the following are 

examples of the covenant found in the Bible:

• Abraham formed an alliance with Canaanite princes (Genesis 14:13)

• Abraham formed alliance with Abimelech (Genesis 21:22-23)

• The patriarchs concluded a covenant of alliance by blood of some 

sacrificial animal except birds (Genesis 15:10)

• The Sinaitic Covenant or Mosaic Covenant refers to the Biblical 

Testament between God and His chosen people, Israelites (Exodus 

19-20): the sign of that Testament became the Decalogue or Ten 

Commandments of God.

• Jesus Christ concluded the New and eternal Alliance and with the pillars 

of the Church (Matthew 26:26; Luke 22:14-19): the sign of that Alliance 

has been the Holy Meal, Holy Sacrifice known also as the Eucharist.

Main parts of the Bible

The Old Testament

The Old Testament or Old Covenant is formed of all books about the 

relationship between God and His chosen people, Israel. It is about preparation 

of Human Salvation: creation of all, the fall of man, the call of Abraham, and 

liberation of Abraham’s descendants from Egyptian slavery, conclusion of 

the Alliance at Sinai Mount, giving the Promised Land etc. Christians give 

the name Old Testament to differentiate it from the new one established by 

Jesus Christ. The Old Testament into the Catholic Bible consists of 46 books 

while the Old Testament for Protestant Bible consists of 39 books.

The New Testament

The New Testament is about 27 books that talks about the fulfilment of human 

salvation through Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The books of the 

New Testament are mainly written in Greek language.

1.1.3. Revelation of the Bible

God revealed Himself by Jesus “whoever sees me sees the one who sent me” John 12:45

Divine revelation means that God made Himself known to man. The Bible 

as Word of God, His creation and the incarnation of Verb constitute the 

three main means by which God revealed Himself. By incarnation God 

made Himself a man; God took flesh like us except sin. In Jesus Christ the 

revelation reached its accomplishment and by His Death the Salvation was 

fulfilled (John 19:30). Jesus Christ is the True word of God. By Him God is 

revealed and accessible as it is declared into the Bible “I am the way, the 

truth and the Life (John 14:6)

1.1.4. Inspiration of the Bible

The Bible is an inspired book because it is formed of the books that were 

written under inspiration of the Holy Spirit so, it has God its Author. As the 

Holy Scriptures testify, the authors were free to use their own faculties but 

God acted in them “All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, 

reproving, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God 

may be thoroughly equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17). If 

the Bible has God as its author, it cannot contain the errors. This is called 

inerrancy of the Bible.

1.1.5. Authorship of the Bible

The authorship of the bible refers to its origin and its writing then to whom 

the Bible is belonging. The Bible is a proper word of God written by sacred 

authors called by God. They wrote history between God and people and 

divine mean of education: story of creation and fall of man (Genesis 1-3); 

laws and norms of life (Exodus 20-23); divine callings; men’s reactions like 

praises, thanksgivings, interrogations; preparation and accomplishment of 

human Salvation

Into the Bible God speaks to man. He renewed and communicated His plan 

of salvation when He firstly called Abraham. He concluded promises with 

him (Genesis 12:1-5; 15:1-21). To save all humanity God then chose Israel 

and both sides expressed their relationship in term of Alliance (Exodus 24: 

1-8)

1.1.6. Canonicity of the Bible

The concept canonicity comes from Hebrew word “Ganeh” and a Greek word 

Kanon meaning, rod or reed that was used to measure, rule or standards 

of measurement. Canon refers to the list of the books included in the Bible 

officially accepted as inspired by God. Hence, canonicity is a legal Church 

confirmation of a list of books as inspired books. The Church recognizes 

that the books that were inspired are satisfactory and approved to be the 

guide of Religious teaching. Origen (185-253) an early Christian scholar of 

Alexandria and a theologian used the term Canon to denote the rule of faith, 

standards which are used to measure or to evaluate. 

The Old Testament knew two main canons: 

The first Canon: it is called Hebrew Canon, Protocanonical (prime) or 

Jamnia canon (area in South Tel-Aviv. It was confirmed by Doctor of Laws 

in 70 AC after destruction of Jerusalem. These books were translated in 

Greek in Alexandria with additional books in Greek as original texts. These 

translated books make the canon of Alexandria or Septuagint because 70 

scientific translators separately finished translating them at the same time. 

This translation was made for Jews in Diaspora who used Greek in that time. 

This Old Testament of Hebrew canon considered 39 books while the Greek 

Canon contains 46 books as inspired

 Jesus bore witness to the Old Testament: Jesus bore witness to these 

three divisions of the Old Testament. “These are my words which I 

spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written 

about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must 

be fulfilled” (Luke 24:44). Jesus mentions Psalms because it was the 

first and largest book of the writings.

• Jesus testified to the extent of the Old Testament canon. When arguing 

with the religious leaders Jesus said, “Upon you may fall the guilt of 

all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel 

to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered 

between the temple and the altar” (Matthew 23:35). Abel was the first 

to be murdered and Zechariah was the last to be martyred in the Old 

Testament order. Abel was slain by his brother Cain and Zechariah was 

stoned in the house of God while prophesying. Genesis was the first in 

chronological order and Chronicles the last.

• Jesus testified to the sacredness of Old Testament. He said, “Do not 

think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to 

abolish but to fulfil. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass 

away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all 

is accomplished” (Matthew 5:17-18). Speaking to the disciples after 

His Resurrection He began “With Moses and with all the prophets, He 

explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. 

He said to them, ‘These are my words which I spoke to you while I was 

still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of 

Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then He 

opened their minds to understand the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27, 44-45).

Deuterocanonical (2nd canon) or Apocrypha books

The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by 

the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodoxy to be canonical parts of 

the Christian Old Testamwent but are not present in the Hebrew Bible. The 

word deuterocanonical comes from the Greek meaning ‹belonging to the 

second canon›. These books are the following: Tobit, Judith, 1st Maccabees, 

2nd Maccabees, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) and Baruch.

Note: These books make difference and bring about 2 versions of the Bibles:

a. Bible with 66 Books: These are mostly protestant Bibles who follow 

only the Hebrew Canon. They recognize 39 books of Old Testament 

and 27 books of the New Testament. They consider the 7 books as 

Apocrypha books or non-inspired books hence do not include them 

in their list book books in the Bible. 

b. Bible with 73 books: This is followed by Catholics and Orthodox. 

They followed the Greek Canon. They considered the 7 books as 

deuterocanonical books and consider them as inspired by God.

 Both catholic and some Protestant Churches established the common Bible 

known as Ecumenical Translation of the Bible (ETB) containing both Protocanonical and Deuterocanonical

1.1.7 The Quran

a) Meaning and redaction

The literally meaning of the Quran is “the recitation”. It refers then to the Word 

of God to be recited. It is the sacred book for Muslim believed as a revelation 

from God (Allah). Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed to 

Muhammad through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril) from 610AC up to 632 

the year of his death. These words were Allah’s words of wisdom, truth, 

and commandments to His creation. The Quran (which means recitation) 

was revealed in the Arabic dialect used by the Quraish tribe of Mecca of 

that time. This dialect became the formal Arabic of the Islamic nations due 

to the distribution of Quranic scriptures throughout the Islamic empire. In 

the Arabic, the Quran is poetic in style with rhymes, meter, and shifts in line 

lengths.

The Quran deals mainly with what and how Allah wants mankind to believe 

and do in Man’s moral struggle. Its primary theme is that of complete 

submission to the will of Allah. Other teachings of Quran include;

• there is only one sovereign God (3:191; 5:73; 112:1-4).

• there will be an end of the world and judgment day (:30; 35:33-37).

• those who do not submit themselves to Allah will go to hell (2:24; 3:12).

• that those whose good deeds exceed their bad will obtain paradise 

(3:135; 7:8-9; 21:47).

• social and ethical behavior for Islamic society.

The Quran was not written by Muhammad by his disciples. The main 

message of the Quran is the Oneness of God, God is unique: Allah. The 

Quran is a book with content without mystery. The Islamic theology restricts 

only what intelligent can grasp: God is one, Omnipotent, bounty etc. the 

Quran talks about Jesus not as Son of God but as Prophet and about Mary 

as mother of Jesus

 Short History of Qur’an Writing 

In the year 610 (believed to be the 26th of Ramadan), while in a cave on Mt. 

Hirah, which is now called Mount Jabal Nur, Muhammad said that the angel 

Gabriel appeared to him and commanded him to recite (96:1-19). From 

that point on, Muhammad claimed to have received revelations up to the 

time of his death (23 years later in 632). In these encounters with the angel 

Gabriel, sometimes Muhammad would see the angel, other times he would 

only hear him, and at others, he only heard the sound of a bell through which 

the words of the angel came.

Since Muhammad could not read or write, his companions wrote down what 

he said. These recitations were copied onto a variety of materials: papyrus, 

flat stones, palm leaves, shoulder blades and ribs of animals, pieces of 

leather and wooden boards. Additionally, these sayings were also being 

memorized by Mohammad’s followers. In fact, to this day, great emphasis is 

placed upon memorizing the entire Qur’an, and there are many thousands 

of Muslims who have committed it to memory.

Apparently, there was no attempt made to collect all of the sayings given by 

Muhammad during his lifetime. After all, Mohammad was continuing to give 

‘recitations’ on a somewhat regular basis. But, after he died in 632, AbuBakr, Muhammad’s father in law, became the caliph (religious leader of the 

Muslims); and there was a small effort to collect the fragments of Qur’anic 

sayings into a commonplace.   But, it wasn’t until the fourth leader of Islam, 

Caliph Uthman, that the whole Qur’an was finally assembled, approved, and 

disseminated throughout the Muslim world.

The Quran also contains many biblical figures (Abraham, David, Moses, and Jesus) 

as well as non-biblical figures. However, some of the accounts of biblical characters 

are different from the Bible.

b) Structure/subdivisions of the Quran

• General structure

The Quran is divided into 114 Chapters called “Sῡrah” and Suwar in plural 

which are subdivided into Verses “ᾱyah” in prular “ᾱyᾱt”

The Quran is also divided into 30 equal sections, called juz’ or ajizain plural.

The divisions of the juz do not fall evenly along chapter lines. These divisions 

allow a speed reading of the Quran over a month’s period and reading a 

fairly equal quantity each day. 

 Subdivision into Quarters

The Quran can be divided into 4 quarters based on the themes. Each quarter 

begins with the words “Alhamdulillah” (All praises are for Allah):

• The first quarter: This part mainly discusses the concept of Allah being 

the Sole and Only Creator of everything

• The second quarter: The central theme of this part is that Allah is the 

Only One Who is responsible for caring and nurturing everything after 

creating it.

• The third quarter: This part revolves around the discussion that Allah 

has complete power to control and administer the affairs of the universe 

as He pleases. It emphasises that He is the Supreme Sovereign and 

none can be partner to Him.

• The fourth quarter: This part mainly discusses the fact that Allah shall 

be the Master and Supreme Judge on the Day of Judgment and no 

intercessor can overrule His decree.

While all these themes have been discussed in great detail in the 

respective parts of the Quran, they are all summarized in Surah Fatiha.

“Alhamdulillah” makes mention of the first part. It includes Allah’s name, 

which tells us that He is the Creator of everything. This is so because the 

mention of Allah’s name compels one to acknowledge this fact

• Subdivison according to Juz’ (also known as Para or Siparah

The Quran can be divided into 30 parts, of almost each length, each part is 

called Juz’. That means each Juz’ is 1/30ths of the Quran

1.1.8 Torah

The word Torah literally means “instruction”, meaning some sort of guidance 

in life. Though Torah is a part of the Bible, it was used by Jews as guidance 

to live and offering sacrifice. But when Jews say “Torah,” they’re most likely 

speaking of the Five Books of Moses, the foundation of all Jewish instruction 

and guidance. We also call it the Chumash, from the Hebrew chamesh, 

which means five. Often, when people talk about “a Torah,” they are referring 

to a parchment scroll version of the Five Books of Moses that is kept in the 

ark of the synagogue and taken out to be read during service.

The Torah also commands the elders to «keep the Children of Israel away 

from impurity. Some authors also consider Tenah and Talmud as Holy 

Scriptures of Jewish Religion. 

The following is the summary of Holy Scriptures of some major Religions in 

the world:

1.1. Application activity: 

1. What are sacred books scriptures for Christianity and Islam.

2. Explain these terms: Testament, authorship and Canonicity.

3. Explain to your colleague what apocrypha books are.

4. Using various resources the difference and the similarity between 

Qur’an and the Bible .

5. What should be your attitudes about to the Holy Scriptures? and 

their role in every day life

1.2. Relationship between the New and Old Testament

1.2. Learning activitiy :

From this biblical text “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or 

the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” (Matthew 

5:17). Discuss the links between the two Testaments of the Bible.

On the day of His Resurrection Jesus Himself reminded His disciples the 

accomplishment of the Old Testament into the new one: He said to them 

“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that 

everything written about me in the Law of Moses and in the prophets and 

Psalms must be fulfilled”. Then He opened their mind to understand the 

Scriptures. And He said to them, “Thus it is written that the Messiah would 

suffer and rise from the dead on the third day” (Luke 24:44-46)

The Church becomes New Israel. The sign of the Old Alliance is the Ten 

Commandments of God given at Sinai Mount Ex 20:1-17 while the sign of 

he New Alliance becomes the holy Sacrifice: offering body and blood of 

Jesus Christ.

Jesus summarizes the commandments in love, and we are no longer 

slaves of laws (Romans 6-8). Christ became the concluding mean of God’s 

revelation (John1:18). In Jesus God proved his deepest love (John3:16). The 

New Testament develops the process within human salvation reached its 

fulfilment: conception of Saviour, birth, growth, teachings, miracles, suffering 

death and resurrection. So the Old Testament became a preparation that 

was accomplished into the New Testament

1.2. Application activity:

1. Find out, Explain the sign of Alliance between God and His people.

2. Explain the invention of the sign of the New Alliance between 

Christ and his Church.

3. Prove the link between the Old and New Testament

4. How did God proved His deepest love for humanity?

5. Is the Old Testament important christians. Justify.

1.3. Structure of the Bible

1.3. Learning activitiy:

With your previous readings, information, what you heard from the previous 

lessons and the holy assembly you attendded, research on two biblical 

books for each group below: Historical books; Pentateuch; Prophetic 

books; Gospel; Letters; Poetic and Wisdom books.

1.3.1. Formation and structure of the Old Testament

a) Formation

Before they were written, some contents of the Old Testament were orally 

transmitted: they are from Genesis to the books of Samuel where we find 

history of the Patriarchs, Moses, Judges, Kings, Elisha and Elijah.

In 11th-10th centuries, two schools of scribes wrote Pentateuch. Those 

schools are Yahwistic Tradition in Juda and Elohistic tradition in Israel. 

After the deportation to Babylon (-587-538) the scribes present the book of 

Jonah, Job, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) to increase hope of people. 

In 2nd century BC the persecution against Jews gave birth to spiritual 

resistance: book of Daniel and Judith

The Hebrew Bible (Only Old Testament) consists of 3 main parts:

• Torah: 5 books of Law of Moses that occupies the first place in Jewish 

life

• Nevi’im that means Prophets: book of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and 

Kings

• Ketuvim that means other writings: Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles

b) Structure of the Old Testament

The structure of the Old Testament varies according to the centuries. All 

editions present first the five books of law called “Pentateuch”.

In the 13th century after Christ, the Catholics structured the Bible into three 

collections:

• Historical books with two sub-collections: Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, 

Leviticus, Number and Deuteronomy). Others (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 

Samuel, Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, and 

Maccabees.

• Didactic books: Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Qohelet (Ecclesiastes), Song 

of Songs, Wisdom and Sirach (Ecclesiasticus).

• Prophetic books with two sub collections: Major Prophets (Isaiah, 

Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel) and Minor prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, 

Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, 

Zechariah, and Malachi.

Currently, the Bible consists of four collections with 73 books for Catholic 

Bible and 66 books for Protestant Bible:

Torah or Pentateuch: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers Deuteronomy

Historical books: Joshua, judges, Ruth, 1st Samuel, 2nd Samuel, 1st 

Kings, 2nd Kings, 1stChronicles, 2nd Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Tobit, 

Judith, Esther, 1st Maccabees, 2nd Maccabees. Thefollowing books are not 

found into Old Testament for protestant Bible: Tobit, Judith, 1st Maccabees, 

2nd Maccabees.

Poetic and wisdom books: Job, psalms, proverb, Ecclesiastes, song of 

Songs, Wisdom, Sirach. The books of Wisdom and Sirach are not found into 

Old Testament for Protestant Church.

Prophetic books: 3 Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel)

15 books as minor Prophets (Lamentations of Jeremiah, Baruch, Daniel, 

Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonas, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, 

Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. The book of Prophet Baruchi does not appear 

into Old Testament for Protestant church.

Seven books are not accepted by Protestants because for them their origin 

is hidden and their message is not clear: this is the origin of their name 

“Apocrypha books”. These are: Tobit, Judith, 1st Maccabees, 2nd Maccabees, 

Wisdom, Sirach and Baruch. But the Ecumenical Bible (common Bible for 

Protestants Orthodox and Roman Catholics) contains all 73 books.

1.3.2. Structure of the New Testament

The books of the New Testament are structured in four collections below:

a. Gospel: Good News formed by 4 books that account the fulfilment 

of Salvation: they are Gospel according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and 

John. The contents of three first gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) 

look almost the same reason why they are called Synoptic Gospel.

b. Acts of Apostles: 1 book written by Luke to testify the birth of the 

Church (Pentecost) and the expansion of Good news.

c. Epistles or letters: 21 letters or epistles

• 13 letters of Paul including:

St. Paul, Writer of Biblical Letters

• Oldest letters: the 1st and the 2nd to Thessalonians written in 50 AC

• Big letters: the 1st and the 2nd to Corinthians, letter to Galatians, to 

Philippians and to Romans written between 56-60AC

• Letters of captivity: letter to Colossians, to Ephesians and to Philemon 

written between 61-63 AC

• Pastoral letters: the 1st and the 2nd letter to Timothy, letter to Titus 

written in70 AD

 1 letter to Hebrews probably written by Paul’s disciple.

• 7 Universal letters including: 2 letters of Peter, 3 letters of John, 1 

letter of Jude and 1 letter of James.

The main message of letters has been to create unity of believers, call to leave 

idols, encouragement to faith, peaceful life and respect between leaders and 

believers call to sharing, to work, to be aware of wrong teachings, etc

d. Apocalypse: 1 book written by John Apostle. It is also called “book 

of Revelation” aiming at strengthening Faith and hope of Christians 

exposed to kings and emperors’ harassment.

1.3. Application activity:

1. Talk about the collections of books into the Old Testament and the 

New Testament.

2. Specify the Author for each book: Apocalypse, Acts of Apostles.

3. Identify 7 books found in Catholic Bible that are not found in 

Protestant Bible.

4. What lessons you get from the book of Job and Daniel.

1.4. Importance of Holy Scriptures in the lives of the 

believer

1.4. Learning activitiy :

Read the passage below and respond to the question that follows it:

Every book is bought by its importance. For example the books of Biology 

help learners to get enough information about body functions. The books 

of history recount the past. The books of Geography describe the earth. 

The Bible and the Quran are the most read books in the world. If you 

agree with the passage above how do you see one another important at 

your school, at home or to the society in general?

We are social and religious being formed by visible body and invisible 

soul. The Holy Scriptures then affect many of human fields:

Social and didactic importance of Holy Scriptures

• They highlight the guidelines for social relationship: solidarity, kindness 

and sharing (Luke10:25-37), empathy (Romans 2:15, Matthew 7:12), 

peaceful life (Isaiah 32:17; 57:21; Matthew 5:9), tolerance and anger 

control (Ephsians4:26-27), fellowship (Mark12:31), social justice 

(Prophet Amos) etc.

• They are books for teachers and students

• They are used by witnesses to affirm that they tell the truth (justice)

• They are used by leaders to take oaths of offices for commitment

• They orient political leaders (Romans 23:1; Exodus 9:16)

• They comfort soul in the society (Proverbs 3:5-6; Matthew 5:4)

• They make inner-peace into people (Philippians 4:70

• They are sources of moralities and values: observe commandments of God, 

discipline, obedience, hardworking, courage, forgiveness, unity, control 

of language, etc. (Jeremiah 30:11; Deuteronomy8:5;1Corinthians11:32; 

Proverbs 6:23; Luke11:28; 2Thessalonicians 3;8-10; Galatians 3:26, 

Exodus 14:13, Matthew 5:7, Romans 3:4)

Spiritual importance of Holy Scriptures

As the holy Scriptures were written under the guidance of God’s Spirit they 

mainly contain the spiritual and religious content:

• They are essential for spiritual growth: prayer in order to win devil 

(Psalms141:5), call for repentance (Joel 2:12-27), it highlights the fruits 

of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), New heart and new spirit (Ezekiel 

36:26)

• They comfort soul of sick people (John33:16) and height hope for 

eternal life 

• They call people to be role model (Matthew 5:13)

• They are used in religious ceremonies

1.4. Application activity: 

Discuss the importance of the Holy Scriptures to individual, a family, 

Church and to the society in general

1.5. End unit assessment

1. Refering to the Bible, make the following concepts clear : 

testament, revelation and canonicity.

2. Relate the main parts of the Bible.

3. Describe the sacred book for Muslims and its message.

4. Explain the apocrypha books.

5. Classify the Paulinic letters and highlight their general importance

6. How are the Holy Scriptures important to lives of people in general?