Old Testament Survey, Final Exam

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Which psalm did David write after Nathan confronted him about his sin with Bathsheba?

Pslam 51

Ecclesiastes

Qoheleth, vanity, meaningless and empty

How did the Israelites view faith and knowledge?

Rational perceptions and faith were not different

Isaiah

"Holy One of Israel", Suffering Servant, Glorious Messiah

Exodus

"I AM", slavery, deliverance, Ten Words, institution of the sacrificial system

Esther

"Such a time as this", Feast of Purim

Define OT wisdom.

"Wisdom is basically the very practical art of being prudent, sensible, and skillfully insightful so that one might prosper and have good success in life"

Modern scholars have classified the books of Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes as

"Wisdom literature,"

There is no conclusive information that identifies who the author of Job was.

..

There are five basic divisions of the book of Psalms

1-41, 42-72, 73-89, 90-106, and 107-50.

How many signs are in the Ugaritic language?

30

How many divisions are in the book of Psalms?

5

I & II Chronicles:

: Supplementary information

Zechariah:

A call to repentance and spiritual renewal, Hearts of Stone

What is the overall structure of Song of Songs?

A collection of songs about sexual love in marriage

What characterizes penitential psalms?

Appeals for forgiveness

Numbers

Census, disobedience, wanderings

What chapter of Ecclesiastes has political corruption as its main theme?

Chapter 5

What is the underlying essence of knowledge or wisdom as presented in Proverbs?

Character > Intellect

X of x is an example of what type of Hebrew literary form?

Chiastic Pattern

Joshua

Conquest, division of the land

Name the major contributors to the book of Psalms.

David, Asaph, sons of Korah, others Psalm 90: Moses Psalms 72 and 127: Solomon

Zephaniah:

Day of the Lord

What type of wisdom literature is usually found in Proverbs?

Didactic

Daniel

Dreams, historical/ apocalyptical, Nebuchadnezzar's dream

In which book is the philosophy "Man should eat, drink, and be satisfied with his work" found?

Ecclesiastes

The meaning of life is a major focus of this book.

Ecclesiastes

The meaning of life is a major focus of which book?

Ecclesiastes

Where was much of ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature written?

Egypt

What type of ancient literature provides the best parallels to the wisdom of Proverbs?

Egyptian

The wisdom literature of the Book of Proverbs parallels what other ancient wisdom literature?

Egyptian instructional wisdom

An ancient parallel to Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 is ________.

Epic of Gilgamesh

What is the Old Testament foundation of wisdom?

Fear of the Lord expressed in genuine faith

Psalms

Five books, Worship, Songs set to music

What makes the book so unique in God's Scripture?

Gives insight into Israelite worship, both private and public Give insight into all aspects of life: praise, forgiveness, sorrow, enemies

Elihu sets the stage for whom to speak?

God

Jonah

God's grace to the Gentiles

Who introduced the initial classification of types of psalms?

Gunkel

Parallelism is the most important feature of ________.

Hebrew poetry

Whose collection of Proverbs most often deals with leadership?

Hezekiah

II Kings

Hezekiah, Manasseh, Josiah, Zedekiah, Exile

What place did Proverbs have in Israelite education?

In the home

Didactic

Intended to teach, used for moral instruction

What is the result of the literary form x of x?

It intensifies an idea

Who was Agur's father?

Jakeh

"Wisdom is God's and human beings can not attain it" is the main theme of ________.

Job

Why bad things happen to good people is a major focus of this book.

Job

What biblical books do modern scholars designate as "Wisdom literature"?

Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes are wisdom literature.

The poetical books

Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs

Obadiah

Judgement on Edom

II Samuel

King David, Jerusalem

I Kings

King Solomon, the Temple, religious syncretism, the kingdom divides

How do you identify divisions in the psalms?

Last verse of each section in a distinctive style

Leviticus

Laws and regulations, offerings, feasts, and festivals

Judges

Leaders/ Delivers, sin, suffering, sorrow, salvation (deliverance)

What is the conclusion of "a man's only goal in life should be to..." reached by Qoheleth in Ecclesiastes?

Life in relationship with God

What type of outlook on life does Ecclesiastes reflect?

Life without God at the center is meaningless

What type of framework does the prologue to Job create?

Literary

Joel

Locusts plague, Outpouring of the Holy Spirit promised

Song of Solomon

Love song, faithfulness in marriage

Finish this quote: A life of folly can be avoided most easily if the young person will

Maintain their relationship with God and adhere to his ways

What is the teacher's philosophy in Ecclesiastes?

Man should eat, drink, and be satisfied with is work

Differentiate between Mesopotamian discursive material and Israelite Wisdom literature.

Mesopotamian documents rarely have moral content and generally refer to skill in magical practices while Israelite wisdom literature is based on the fear of the lord expressed in genuine faith.

What is the distinguishing feature of Hebrew wisdom literature?

Monotheistic perspective

To whom is Psalm 90 often attributed?

Moses

Malachi:

My Messenger, disputation speech - Questions, questions, questions

Nahum:

Nineveh's doom, vindicates God's justice and sovereignty

What is the most important feature of Hebrew poetry?

Parallelism

What is the enemy of wisdom?

Pride

Discuss the date and authorship issues of the book of Ecclesiastes. What is the only sure conclusion concerning authorship?

Probably 3rd century BC Pre exilic - grammar and vocabulary evidence shows it can't be post exilic

Principles for living are a major focus of this book.

Proverbs

Principles for living are a major focus of which book?

Proverbs

What is the most powerful unit on the dangers of sexual impurity?

Proverbs 7

Where does one find the pinnacle of the Bible's view of wisdom?

Proverbs 8

An example of an acrostic psalm is ________.

Psalm 119

I Samuel

Samuel, King Saul, obedience

What is the word used in Egyptian literature for wisdom literature?

Sebayt: Instruction

Ezra

Second Temple completed, the Chronicler

What is the Song of Songs about?

Sexual love in marriage

Deuteronomy

Shema, Second Law, regulations for kings, test for true prophets

Amos

Social justice required, Plumb-line

Ezekiel

Son of Man, dry bones

Job

Suffering, the retribution principle

What is the Hebrew word for the Book Psalms?

Tehillim - praises

Genesis

The Beginning, the first Gospel, the patriarchs

What topic is explored in Wisdom literature?

The meaning of life

What distinguished Hebrew wisdom from its ancient Near Eastern counterparts?

The phrase, "the fear of the Lord"

Which sections of the Book of Proverbs may have non-Israelite origins?

The sayings of the wise men (Proverbs 22:17-24:34) These Hebrew proverbs were likely modeled on an Egyptian original (Instruction of Amenemope)

Human suffering is blamed on whom in the Babylonian discourses?

The sufferer

Why would the sayings of 25:1-29:27 have been of interest to Hezekiah?

They deal with topics of leadership

How did the Israelites interact with the literature and worldview of their ancient Near Eastern neighbors?

They were comfortable incorporating materials from other cultures, as long as they eliminated polytheistic elements "Cross-cultural communication of faith"

What is the value of Proverbs for today?

Timeless principles for living

Micah:

True religion defined, "Who is a God like unto Thee?"

What group has informed much of our knowledge about ancient Near Eastern polytheism?

Ugarits

Hosea

Unfaithful wife/ unfaithful Israel

Nehemiah

Walls of Jerusalem rebuilt

Lamentations

Weeping

Jeremiah

Weeping prophet, "New covenant", Book of Comfort

Habakkuk:

Why God? Honest doubt

Proverbs

Wisdom, theological and pragmatic principles

Haggai:

Zerubbabel as a "signet right" in Zion

Who insisted Job's main problem was greed?

Zophar

How do we classify the content of the Song of Songs?

a collection of songs

The Song of Songs has all the following, except ________.

a consistent narrative plot

Proverbs 23 and the sayings of the wise men focus on ________.

a foundation for life in truth

Chiastic Pattern:

a literary device in which a sequence of ideas is presented and then repeated in reverse order.

Whom does the term Qoholet describe?

a philosopher

a proverb is not

a promise or a command.

A proverb is

a short saying about principles of living that have been proven by life experience,

Who compiled the Song of Songs?

an admirer of King Solomon

Responsive Reading:

call and response

Imprecatory psalms

call on God to judge one's enemies.

What characterizes imprecatory psalms?

calls for judgment

How is the collection of sayings (1:8-9:18) different from most of the other collections in the book?

considered "fatherly talks"; contrasts sexual immorality with devotion to wisdom, which involves sexual purity

Imprecatory psalms call for God's judgment on ________.

enemies

Who was the producer of discourses of wisdom in the ancient Near East?

fathers

What aspect of the psalms has an ancient origin?

headings of Psalms

From whom did King Lemuel learn his proverbs?

his mother

Ancient Egypt created many examples of

instructional wisdom, which focused on successful living.

Ruth

loving kindness, Kinsman-redeemer

Which was a common theme of Mesopotamian Wisdom literature?

magical practices

Character receives a relatively ________ emphasis in Proverbs.

major

To whom does the book of Proverbs apply today?

men and women

Asaph was the chief ________.

musician

Does Song of Songs have a consistent narrative plot?

no

Maxims are most likely to be in a(n) ________ tone.

optimistic

What part of the Book of Job creates a literary framework?

prologue

Chapter 2 of Job is written in ________.

prose

Except for drama, the book of Ecclesiastes contains the following literary types.

proverbial sayings, brief meditations, poetry

What group produced wisdom discourses in the ancient Near East?

sages

What is a key theme of Proverbs 7?

sexual purity

Hebrew poetry has three basic types of parallelism:

synonymous, antithetic, and synthetic.

What characterizes hymn psalms?

thanksgiving to God

Distich

two contiguous lines related to each other by form and by content. a couplet,

hokma

wisdom, both divine and human.


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