Exam #3 Cha
According to Lucas, the following are correct EXCEPT...
***The Song of Songs comes from the Solomon era
Which of the following can be found in Ecclesiastes?
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Who is the author of Ecclesiastes?
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According to Lucas, the following are correct EXCEPT...
Allegorical interpretations of the Song of Songs are anachronistic.
Who objected strongly to poems from the Song of Songs being sung for entertainment at secular gatherings?
Aqiba
When compared to the 1st round of speeches what is unique about the 3rd round of speeches?
Bildad's speech is short, and Zophar's speech is absent as if they have no more to say.
According to Lucas, which of the following is correct?
Descriptive songs often referred to as the wasf parallel some parts of the Song of Songs.
According to Lucas, the following are true EXCEPT...
Ecclesiastes clearly dates back to the pre-exilic times, if not the Solomonic era
According to Lucas, which of the followings NOT correct?
Ecclesiastes is the only biblical book that stands in tension with other parts of the Hebrew Bible
The following are Job's friends EXCEPT...
Elihu
What is the conclusion of Ecclesiastes?
Fear God and keep his commandments
What is the main thesis of Elihu's speeches?
God uses suffering to warn people and turn them away from sin and as a means of disciplining people.
What was Job's response to God's second speech?
He declares that he now has a deeper knowledge of God.
Which of the following describes Job's position correctly?
He has done nothing wrong to deserve the degree of suffering that has been visited upon him.
When Qohelet says there is a time for everything...
He laments humans cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end, implying humans cannot know the proper time for things.
According to Lucas, when Job said, "I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes"...
He was admitting that his previous understanding of God was deficient
Which of the following did Qohelet say (or imply) repeatedly?
Humankind cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to the end.
According to Lucas, the following are true EXCEPT...
In the Song of Songs, the woman rarely takes initiative and is passive indicating that cultural background and male authorship.
After exchanging speeches with God, the following took place EXCEPT....
Job admitted his sinfulness.
The following are what Job's friends did EXCEPT....
Job and his friends took turns to address each other and God.
God spoke to Job that...
Job lacks knowledge and his arguments obscure the truth.
God's first response to Job's cry is...
Job lacks knowledge and his arguments obscure the truth.
Which of the following is correct?
Job regards God as his enemy, trying to destroy him
What is the first thing Qohelet says in the book?
Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.
The following are what Job's friends did EXCEPT....
One of them said "the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord."
Who wrote a ten-volume commentary on the Song of Songs and argued it was a "marriage song'" written by Solomon for one of his wives?
Origen
The narrator's evaluation of Qohelet was...
Qohelet searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true
According to Lucas, the following are true EXCEPT...
Satan in the book of Job is a name of the same character, who also appears in Revelation.
Which of the following is used as an argument against Solomon's authorship of the Song of Songs?
Solomon would not ridicule himself for trying to buy the woman's love.
According to Lucas, the following statements are correct EXCEPT...
Some of the early rabbis debated whether or not Ecclesiastes should be included in the Hebrew canon.
Which of the following interprets the Song of Songs as an allegorical account of God's relationship with Israel form the time of Exodus to the destruction of the second temple and then the coming of the Messiah?
Targum
According to Lucas, the following are reasons scholars use to support that Solomon is not the author of Ecclesiastes EXCEPT...
The Septuagint reveals a different Hebrew tradition that is not reflected in the current Hebrew text
According to Lucas, the following are true EXCEPT...
The Song of Songs clearly indicates Solomon as its author.
According to Lucas, the following are correct EXCEPT...
The Song of Songs comes from the solomonic era
According to Lucas, the following are the message of the book Job EXCEPT...
The battle between good and evil, that is, between God and Satan, is why bad things happen to good people in the world.
According to Lucas and the lecture, the following are true EXCEPT...
The epilogue is stated in 2nd person imperative
According to Lucas, the following are true EXCEPT...
The epilogue is stated in 2nd person imperative
What is an apparent theological tension between the epilogue and the rest of the book?
The prologue links Job's piety and prosperity in the rest of the book this link is shattered, but the epilogue returns to the conventional retributive theology.
The following explain correctly the background of Job's story EXCEPT...
The story of Job seems to be set in early Israel before Israel had established its kingship
When compared to the 1st round of speeches what is unique about the 2nd round of speeches?
The tone of the first is fairly gentle and persuasive, but it becomes quite strong and harsh in the 2nd round
According to Lucas, "Qoheleth" is something of a puzzle because...
The word is feminine in gender but is always used with a masculine form of the verb
According to Lucas, which of the following is correct?
Their is a genuine dialogue between the lovers in the Song of Songs, but the Egyptian love songs are soliloquies in which speakers address their own.
In the prologue the author establishes that Job is innocent of moral fault but suffers. According to Lucas, what is the author asserting by establishing this?
There is a problem with the innocent suffering.
What was Job's burning question?
Why am I suffering this much even though I have done nothing to deserve the degree of this suffering?
What was God's second challenge to Job?
Why has Job accused God of ruling the world unjustly in order to justify himself?
When God spoke out of a storm what were his initial words?
a rebuke
According to Lucas, Ecclesiastes shares similarities with...
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Qohelet says .... is meaningless
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Wasf is...
an Arabic term meaning "description"
Qohelet says ... is a chasing after the wind
applying himself to the understanding of wisdom
The man speaks of the woman's beauty, likening her to a...
beautiful mare
According to Lucas, in ANE it was a mark of wisdom to know the "proper time" for things...
but the Qoheleth asserts that this time is set by God and is beyond human understanding
Job gets to the point of charging God with injustice by...
heedlessly destroying both the blameless and the wicked
The book of Job wrestles with a problem of...
innocent suffering
The essence of the revelation Eliphaz received was that...
no human can claim to be righteous before God.
According to Lucas, the "granted, but on the other hand" explanation is problematic because...
the "buts" do not usually follow on directly from the "granted"
Which of the following Job rejects?
the claim that people get their just deserts in this life
According to Lucas, Songs 5:10- 16 is...
the only wasf in the Song of Songs where the woman describes the man
According to Lucas, "contradictory statements" in Ecclesiastes have been explained as following EXCEPT...
the rambling nature of Qoheleth's thought
When Qohelet says there is a time for everything in the world, he concludes that...
we cannot know the proper time for things