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