Question

What was the church’s Bible at the end of the apostolic era and the beginning of the post-apostolic era?

The New Testament
The Hebrew Bible
The Shema
The Apocrypha
The Talmud

Answer 1

The Hebrew Bible — specifically the Greek Septuagint for most Gentile churches (which often included the so-called Apocrypha).

Explanation: at the end of the apostolic era the church’s authoritative scriptures were the Jewish Scriptures/Old Testament. New Testament writings circulated and were valued, but the NT canon was not yet fixed. The Shema is a Jewish prayer from those Scriptures (not the whole Bible), the Apocrypha were part of the Septuagint used by many Christians, and the Talmud is later rabbinic material, not the church’s Bible.