Test Five

The teacher's philosophy of life in Ecclesiastes

"24The best that people can do is eat, drink, and enjoy their work. I saw that even this comes from God, 25 because no one can eat or enjoy life without him." Eat, drink, and enjoy our short time on earth; even these are gifts of God

Features of Hebrew poetry

(meter, rhyme, parallelism, chiasm)

Maxim

- state observations about life in general. Tend to be instructional in nature and optimistic about life

Lament Psalms

1. State ones condition 2. State trust in God 3. Praise

Psalm that David wrote after Nathan confronted him about his sin with Bathsheba

51`

Number of divisions in the Book of Psalms

55

Rhyme

Agreement on ending sounds of poetic lines or verse

Most llikely compiler of the song of Songs

An admirer of King Soloman

Name of Davids chief musician

Asaph

Imprecatory Psalms

Call for God judgment on the psalmists enemies. They include angry content

Most emphasized aspect (between intellect, character, commitment, and discernment) in the Book of Proverbs

Character

The best classification (allegory, drama, etc.) for the content of Song of Songs

Collection of love songs

Basic contribution of the Book of Proverbs

Consolidation of ancient Israel truths based on experience, and offers believers of every generation PRACTICAL ADVICE ON HOLY LIVING

Dialogues

Conversation between two or more people

Author of the largest number of the psalms

David

"Instruction" as wisdom literary type (in relation to Egypt)

Egyptian literary style that highlighted the importance of family in education. The instructor was the parent and the student was the child in many cases.

The major theme of the book of Ecclesiastes

Everything is vanity (or meaningless), life without God at the center, or the fear of God, is meaningless

Penitential Psalms

Express sorrow for sin "o God my God I am sorry for my sin, please forgive me." In addition to expressing sorrow for sins they also appeal to God's grace for restoration

Most important education unit in ancient Egypt

Family

Royal Psalms

Focused on Israel's King, describing him as God special representative to rule Israel

Hymns

Form of praise, writers praised God and thanked him for what he had done

German scholar responsible for the initial classification of the psalms

Herman Gunkel

Identity of the person that taught King Lemuel his proverbs

His mother

Characteristics of different types of Psalms

Hymns, Penitential Psalms, Wisdom Psalms, Royal Psalms, Imprecatory psalms, Lament Psalms

Which of the wisdom books of the OT is closest to the The Babylonian Theodicy

IN the book of Job the dialogue of between a sufferer and his friend has strong similarities with the Babylonian theodicy.

Why Family is the most important unit in ancient Egypt

In instruction the teacher is often father or mother and the student is child or son as in prv1:18. This reflects the concept that the family is the most important educational unit of the ancient world, as was also true of ancient Israel Dt 6:6-7

Ugaritic (in relation to Hebrew Poetry)

It is very similar to Biblical Hebrew language, so it was used to better understand meaning of the scriptures

List of poetical books

Job, psalms proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs

Which theme does Hezekiah's collection of proverbs most often deal with?

Leadership

The best description (preacher, prophet, philosopher, pedagogue) of the word Qohelet

Philosopher

Literary types in Ecclesiastes

Poetry, narrative, proverbial sayings, brief meditations

Hebrew word for the Book of Psalms

Tehilim- which means praises

Best parallel for the wisdom literature of the Book of Proverbs in the Ancient Near East

The Egyptian teachings of Amenemope

Literature containing many statements that clearly parallel the Old Testament proverbs

The instruction of Amenemope from around 1200 B.C. contains thirty chapters of instructions for well- being, man of which closely parallel certain Old Testament proverbs p291

The conclusion reached by Qohelet in Ecclesiastes "Fear God and keep his commandments" (Ecc. 12:13).

The whole of humanity is dependent on God, to fear God is to obey his commandments

Place where most of the ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature was written

UZ probably between Edom and Northern Arabia

Why Ugaritics are useful

Ugaritic poetry helps us understand the polytheistic world that surrounds the Hebrews. It reveals much about Baal and Ashera

Main message of the Book of Job

Wisdom belongs to God and resolute faith in him will be vindicated

Meter

accent pattern or arrangement of words (meter is more important in Hebrew poetry than Rhyme)

Most frequently found characters in Egyptian wisdom literature

brief proverbial maxims often optimistic

Example of Ugaritic (in relation to Hebrew Poetry)

certain rare Hebrew words occur more commonly in the Ugaritic language. It has many similarities to Hebrew poetry including parallelism.

Soliloquies

character speaks to himself relating thoughts or feelings

Nature (discursive, didactic, observational, or analytic) of wisdom literature found in the Book of Proverbs

didactic

Types of wisdom literature

maxims, dialogues, monologues, soliloquies

Parallesism

most important feature of Hebrew poetry. Lines complement each other, typically in thought rather than rhyme or sound

Chiasm

occurs when successive lines of poetry reverse the order in which parallel line appear, resulted in a "criss cross" of each other

Distinguishing feature of Hebrew wisdom literature

parallelism

What the Book of Proverbs identifies as the enemy of wisdom

pride

Monologues

prolonged talk by a single speaker who speaks alone

Wisdom Psalms

relate general observations of life. Writers spend little time defending the truths that they expound, rather, they give self-evident descriptions of the way that god meant life to be

Example of Instruction as wisdom literary type (in relation to Egypt)

the tahhotep which was teaching on human relations and the Amenemope which were instructions on wellbeing that are similar to the proverbs