Hill & Walton: A Survey of the Old Testament: Key Ideas Final Exam OT 1

Key Ideas of Genesis

1. God created, and creation was good. 2. Disobedience separated people from God. 3. God instituted a program of revelation called the covenant.

Key Ideas of Esther

1. God is at work even when he is behind the scenes. 2. The schemes of the wicked are doomed. 3. God's plans for his people cannot be thwarted.

Key Ideas of Ruth

1. God's faithfulness and loyalty stimulated by people's faithfulness and loyalty to one another. 2. David's faith shown to be the legacy of his ancestors. 3. The light of loyalty dispersed during the apostasy of the Judges period. 4. The concept of kinsman-redeemer introduced.

Key Ideas of Numbers

1. God's faithfulness to his covenant promises. 2. Divine testing of human motives. 3. God communicating his truth through the medium of culture. 4. God's sovereign rule of the nations.

Key Ideas of 1-2 Kings

1. Kingship-good and evil. 2. The prophetic voice as the royal conscience. 3. Worship-Yahwism vs. Baalism 4. Covenant blessings (repentance and restoration) and curses (judgement and exile).

Key Ideas of Judges

1. The cycles of the Judges period. 2. God's justice and grace. 3. God's sovereign provision of deliverers. 4. Covenant failure by the people, the priests, and the tribal leadership. 5. The role of the Spirit of the Lord.

Key Ideas of Joshua

1. The faithfulness of God in fulfilling covenant. 2. The conquest and apportionment of the land. 3. The importance of obedience.

Key Ideas of Leviticus

1. The holiness of God. 2. The purity of the covenant community. 3. the principle of substitution in the sacrificial ritual. 4. The principle of meditation in the service of the priests. 5. The redeeming of time by means of the liturgical calendar.

Key Ideas of Deuteronomy

1. The importance of a central worship place. 2. The emphasis on the name of God. 3. The organization of laws with reference to the Ten Commandments. 4. The centrality of loving and obeying the covenant God.

Key Ideas of 1-2 Samuel

1. The institution of kingship. 2. The process toward establishing a covenant with David's line. 3. The importance of divine kingship.

Key Ideas of Ezra-Nehemiah

1. The physical restoration of the city of Jerusalem. 2. Yahweh as a covenant-keeping God. 3. Religious and social reform as the aftermath of repentance.

Key Ideas of 1-2 Chronicles

1. The retelling of the past to inspire hope in the present. 2. The reigns of David and Solomon idealized. 3. The centrality of temple worship. 4. The validation of the priests and Levites as community leaders.

Key Ideas of Exodus

1. The supremacy of Yahweh over pagan deities. 2. The exodus as a redemptive event for ancient Israel. 3. The Mosaic law as a religious and social charter for Israel. 4. The presence of God symbolized in the tabernacle.