BIBL 453 Exam #1 Cha
which of the following explains Brevard S. Child's Works?
Human words in response to God have now become part of God's word and instruction to God's people.
according to Brueggemann, which of the following is correct?
In the Psalms God tells us the truth about us.
according to Berquist which of the following is correct?
In the imperial context, the repopulation of provinces like Jerusalem was for the purpose of intensification of the empire.
tucker points out that the democratizing of the royal ideal also appears in ...
Isaiah 40-66
According to Tucker, what is the popular (mis)conception concerning the Psalter?
It is a pietistic document that has nothing to do with political machinations present in the world, then and now.
Praise is, Miller points out, fundamentally a social or communal experience. Which of the following explains that INCORRECTLY?
It is not ideal or good enough to praise God as an individual
what does Miller mean by saying, "the praise of God is the last word of faith"?
It is our "end" in life, the end or goal toward which all our life is set.
according to wilson
It is unclear whether Psalm 72 is "by", "to", "for" or even "concerning" solomon.
According to Wilson, which of the following is correct?
It is unclear whether Psalm 72 is "by", "to", "for", or even "concerning" Solomon.
according to brueggemann, what difference does it make to have faith that permits and requires the lament form of prayer?
It redresses the distribution of power between two parties, i.e. God and the petitioner
the following are what brueggemann says except
Lament psalms start with lament and conclude with lament.
According to Fretheim, what is a consequence of Biblical- theological study's tendency to abandon the study of nature?
Let scientist deal with it
According to Zenger, the biblical psalms of enmity offer us...
A means that can help victims of violence
According to Tucker, the Psalter wrestles with...
A world abounding in hostility, a world in which empires and en emits remain a perpetual threat to those who pray the psalms
According to Tucker, the Psalter wrestles with...
A world abounding with hostility, a world in which empires and enemies remain a perpetual threat to those who pray the Psalms
According to Mays, "double fact" refers to...
Composition of individual psalms and their inclusion in the Psalter later
which of the following explains the macrostructural analysis of the psalter best?
the royal and wisdom frame at the seams that join the books of the psalter
according to Gottwald, which of the following is incorrect?
the royal psalms appear only in the first 3 books of the psalter where the davidic dynasty is the main topic.
According to Tucker, the poor in Psalm 107, in essence, is paralleled with...
the upright
According to Wenham, the Psalter invites the worshipper to identify with the sentiment of the psalm by...
the use of first person
According to the Psalms, the following are the happy ones, EXCEPT
those who help themselves
When brueggemann writes, "if we are genuinely to pray the psalms, we must try to understand what is happening in such acts of piety" what was he refferring to?
use of all psalms including the psalms of vengeance.
which of the following does Brueggemann say?
we have a love-hate relationship with the Psalms.
bellingers chapter two covers concerns about type/structure, cultic function and shaping. what happens if we are not concerned about these matters?
we might simply read the psalms according to personal whims.
According to McCann, the editorial effect of the "Prayer of Moses" is to...
Portray Moses praying again for the people in the critical situation of exile
According to Berquist, two very important practices for Second Temple Yehudite religion were...
Prayer and the observance of the Sabbath
According to Gottwald, which of the following is INCORRECT?
Psalm 110 is a messianic psalm in which the coming of Christ and his suffering is foretold.
According to Mays which of the following is correct?
Psalms 1 and 2 emphasize a choice between two ways, individually and collectively, that is, nationally.
According to Gottwald, which of the following is correct?
Psalms 2, 18, 72, 89, 110, and 146 are royal psalms located in strategic places.
according to Gottwald, which of the following is correct?
Psalms 2,18,72,89,110, and 146 are royal psalms located in strategic places.
According to Wilson, which of the following is correct?
Psalms are linked together in larger groupings by author designations.
Gerald H Wilson argues that the peculiar character of the psalms and Psalter allow both together to provide a suggestive paradigm to biblical theology because...
They reveal how the psalms are selected, arranged, preserved, adapted, reshaped, contexualized, and reinterpreted ancient traditions so the they continue to speak to ever new circumstances of the community of faith.
According to Lucas, the following are true EXCEPT...
The structure of the lament psalms is fixed with the same elements appearing in all lament psalms.
According ti Tucker, what links Psalms 109 with Psalms 110?
The theme of "right hand"
According to Mays, the following are correct EXCEPT...
The torah psalms are acrostic psalms
According to Zenger, the following shows the specific shape of the Psalms 90-106, EXCEPT...
These Psalms are postexilic
According to McCann, to take refuge in God means...
To entrust self, life and future to God.
which of the following reflects Brueggemann's point correctly?
every known culture has its own songs and prayers like the ones in the psalter, and in these cultures they were used as a part of the order assumption of society.
form critical approach to the psalter focuses on...
genre of the psalms and their sitz im leben
brueggemann agrees with Gerstenberger, who argues it is helpful to see that laments are
genuine pastoral activities.
the function of the lament form, brueggemann suggestsm is to get some action that is hoped for and to...
give a new definition of the situation.
According to Tucker, the language of "love" and "hate"...
has a long history in the ANE of referring to political relations between nations and peoples
According to Zenger, the biblical psalms of enmity engage violence...
in accusation against God's own person in light of the so-called problem of theodicy.
according to Zenger, the biblical psalms of enmity engage violence...
in accusation against God's own person in light of the so-called problem of theodicy.
according to bellinger, which of the following correctly explains the book of psalms?
it contains several collections of psalms
Praise is, as Miller points out, fundamentally a social or communal experience. Which of the following explains that INCORRECTLY?
it is not ideal or good enough to praise God as an individual.
according to Brueggemann, which of the following is incorrect?
laments are religious exercises whose principal value is cathartic.
according to Lucas
macrostructural and microstructural analysis of psalms complement each other.
according to Gottwald, which of the following is incorrect?
psalm 110 is a messianic psalm in which the coming of Christ and his suffering is foretold.
brueggemann quotes rainer albertz who suggested that the function of lament is...
rehabilitation/restoration
which of the following best represents Gerald H. Wilson's view?
the Hebrew term "melek" is not used in the last two books of the psalter in references to the kings of Israel.
According to Lucas, which of the following is correct?
the Psalms that meditate on the importance of the torah probably reflect post-exilic thinking.
According to Brueggemann, one possible gain from the recovery of lament psalms is that...
the believer may develop an ego-strength and takes initiative.
according to Brueggemann, lament occurs when...
the dysfunction reaches intolerable and change is insisted upon.
according to Lucas, the following are true except...
the hebrew preposition le and the name that follows it can only refer to its authorship.
according to McCann, which of the following is correct?
the imperative "serve the Lord" appears in the psalter twice.
Which of the following describes Zenger's view correctly?
the last two books of the psalter exhibit the characteristics of a theocratic program.
in his article "the costly loss of lament" brueggemann explores...
the loss of life and faith incurred when the lament psalms are no longer used for their specific social function.
According to Gottwald, which of the following is correct?
the only presupposition he entertains about date is to accept the widely held view that the present book was edited in post-exilic times.
according to Gottwald, which of the following is correct?
the psalms are virtually undateable,other than to recognize that some are evidently postexilic.
Which of the following is correct?
the psalter reflects the move from individual and lament psalms, dominant in the first part of the book, to community and praise psalms, in the latter part of the book.
According to Lucas, the following are correct except?
About half the psalms are linked with king David because he authored these psalms.
According to Mays, Psalms 1, 19, and 119 are....
All of the answer choices
According to Fretheim, what has caused biblical-theological study's tendency to abandon the study of nature?
Anthropocentricism.
According to Mays, the following are correct EXCEPT...
As the only psalms composed on the themes on the Torah, Psalms 1, 19, and 199 stand isolated in the Psalter.
According to Berquist, which of the following is true?
Babylon attacked Judah in 597 and again in 587 BC, destroyed Jerusalem, and deported the elite of Judah to Babylon.
Which book ends with people's plea to be gathered from among the nations?
Book IV
Which of the following identifies Gerald H Wilson's point correctly?
Books 4 and 5 respond to Israel's exilic experience.
which of the following identifies Gerald H. Wilson's point correctly?
Books 4 and 5 respond to Israel's exilic experience.
According to McCann, Psalms 15-24...
Call attention to the centrality of Torah
According to Bellinger, which of the following does NOT explain the book of psalms correctly?
Each book of psalms begins with a benediction/doxology.
Which of the following statements would Fretheim DISAGREE with?
Each entity in Psalm 148 does not have its own distinctiveness in its praising.
according to brueggemann, lament psalms are a complaint that cries out the following except...
Either God doesn't care or is not omnipotent
Bruegemann agrees with Gerstenberger who argues that it is helpful to see that laments are...
Genuine pastoral activities
McCann argues that the shape of human happiness according to the Psalms...
Has to do with the fundamental orientation of the self to God, constantly delighting in God's instruction, and with finding refuge in God.
Wenham used the following terms to describe the Psalms EXCEPT...
Subversive
according to Lucas...
The Midrash Tehilim on Psalm 1:1 says "David gave Israel the five books of psalms".
Wenham argues for the following EXCEPT...
The Psalter is the "hymnbook of the Second Temple," and as such singing is the one and only appropriate way to know them.
according to Berquist, which of the following is correct?
The construction of the temple in Jerusalem did not begin until 522 or 521 BC.
According to gottwald, which of the following fits well with psalms 90-150?
The eclipse of kingship.
According to McCann, which of the following is correct?
The imperative "Serve the Lord" appears in the Psalter twice.
Berquist points out that Ezra refers to the Torah as...
The law of God and the law of King.
Wenham agrees with the following EXCEPT...
The locus of meaning of the psalms is found in their original form.
According to Wilson which of the following explains books 4 and 5?
The majority of the psalms in these two last books have no designation of author.
which of the following is not paired correctly?
The personal/historical method-Hermann Gunkel
Wilson argues for the following, EXCEPT...
The qumran manuscripts support the Persian era as the historical setting of the final editing of the Hebrew Psalter.
According to Wenham, which of the following is NOT a good use of the gaps?
The reader fills in gaps in Sitz im Leben.
According to Gottwald, which of the following is correct?
The sequence of psalms 1-89 moves in a downward course from Zenith to Nadir.
According to Gottwald, which of the following is correct?
The sequence of psalms in 1-89 moves in a downward course from zenith to nadir as the supremacy confident king who rules the world and easily down rebellions against his regime (Psalm 2) shades off into a king who is disposed and accuses God of breaking the covenant (Psalm 89)
Israel voices its canonical inventory of YHWH's faithful, transformative actions in...
The so-called historical psalms
According to Bruegemann, what is the second loss caused by the absence of lament?
The stifling question of theodicy
According to Zenger, the biblical psalms of enmity...
Transfer vengeance to God by renouncing one's own revenge.
Psalms 73 plays a crucial role for ...'s understanding of the theological message of the psalter taken as a whole.
Walter Brueggemann
Brueggemann claims that "the Psalter knows us." What does he mean by that?
We are vengeful creatures.
According to Brueggemann, when we perform the script of the Psalter...
We commit a counter- cultural act, counter to the dominant political, epistemological, and symbolic assumptions of our culture.
the psalms voice, Bruggemann writes, and are embedded in a larger narrative in which...
YHWH is the key character and lively agent
According to Zenger, Psalm book IV holds fast to this Utopia of King's universal reign...
against all catastrophic experiences in Israel's history
according to Brueggemann, what shows that Israel's lament is focused on fidelity and not primarily on anger?
an affirmative ending.
according to Brueggemann, if the lament as a form of speech and faith is lost the following happens except...
biblical faith is reduced to psychological categories.
according to Zenger, Psalm 100...
calls Israel and the Nations to the common acknowledgement of YHWh's reign over the world.
