Win-A-Trip Contest Quiz (#3)
Paintings of the Bible
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Identify each painting by its artist and subject. Give at least one biblical citation directly related to the scene pictured in the painting.
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Hurry! We will wait four weeks after the first answers are received and then will choose 25 readers who have submitted four correct answers to this quiz. They will receive a magnificent 34″ x 39″ full-color, museum-quality photograph poster of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock. But all subscribers who submit correct answers to this quiz will be eligible to win a free trip to the Holy und (round-trip airfare from Kennedy Airport, New York City, to Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel plus $500).
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Answers to BR Animals-of-the-Bible Quiz
Correct submissions go into pool for Holy-land-trip prize
The second BR “Win-a-Free-Trip-to-the-Holy Land Quiz,” featuring animals of the Bible, drew an even larger response than our first quiz, Plants of the Bible. Seventy-four readers submitted correct identifications and Bible cites for the four animals shown in the
After answers to the fourth quiz have been received, we will draw one name from the pool of all the correct submissions to the four quizzes. You can enter all four quizzes and increase your chance of winning! The person whose name is drawn will receive round-trip air fare New York-Israel, plus $500.
Answers to questions
1. Nubian ibex (Capra ibex nubiana). Hebrew name: yael.
“Do you know the time when the ibex of the rocks give birth?” (Job 39:1).a
Additional biblical passages include: Deuteronomy 14:5; 1 Samuel 24:2; Psalms 104:18.
The Nubian ibex is one of Israel’s biggest conservation success stories. Just a few decades ago, its population was reduced to a few dozen clustered around the Judean Desert oasis of Ein Gedi (which means “spring of the ibex kid”). Thanks to active conservation efforts this species today numbers about 3,000. Originally distributed throughout the Near East and down into the Sudanese deserts, the Nubian ibex is virtually extinct throughout all of its range, except for Israel, where it prospers in the mountainous deserts.
2. Rock hyrax or coney (Procavia capensis) Hebrew name: shafan selah
“The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies” (Psalms 104:18)
Additional biblical passages include: Leviticus 11:5; Deuteronomy 14:7; Proverbs 30.26.
Rock hyrax have been seen from Eilat all the way to Jerusalem, but appear most frequently in the ravines around Ein Gedi. Although the rock hyrax looks like a marmot or groundhog, it is not a rodent. This biological curiosity is actually most closely related to elephants and aardvarks!
3. Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius). Hebrew name: gamal.
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:24).
Additional biblical passages include: Genesis 24:10; Leviticus 11:4; Isaiah 30:6; Matthew 23:24; Mark 1:6.
A Bedouin adage says, “There are no wild camels in the desert anymore. Nor are there any tame ones.” Biologists have not been able to find any truly wild camels in the Near East, where the camel is still widely used as a beast of burden. But, then, the domestic types are not very domestic; stories of their ill temper abound in regional folklore.
4. Mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella). Hebrew name: zvi.
“My beloved is like a gazelle” (Song of Songs 2:9).
Additional biblical passages include: Deuteronomy 12:15; 1 Chronicles 12:8; 2 Samuel 2:18.
Although Scripture does not distinguish among them, three different gazelles are native to Israel: the dorcas gazelle (Gazelle dorcas), the mountain gazelle and the Arava gazelle, which is so rare that it has not yet been described in scientific literature and consequently has no scientific name. It lives only in the southern Arava valley. There are about 2,000 dorcas gazelles in Israel, about 10,000 mountain gazelles and only about 35 Arava gazelles.
Answers were provided by Bill Clark, former curator of Israel’s Hai Bar Biblical Wildlife Refuge. For more information, see The Paper Ark and “Animals of the Bible: Living Links to Antiquity,” BAR 07:01, both by Clark.
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Identify each painting by its artist and subject. Give at least one biblical citation directly related to the scene pictured in the painting.
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Footnotes
See “‘Do You Know When the Ibexes Give Birth?’” BAR 05:06.