BIBL 105: Old Testament Final
What is the most accurate way to summarize the Ten Commandments?
4 commandments about how to treat God and 6 about how to treat each other
Nehemiah leads the exiles
445 B.C.
King Cyrus allows exiles to return home
538 B.C.
Persians overrun Babylonians
539 B.C.
Babylonians invade Judah
587/586 B.C.
The northern kingdom (Israel) is destroyed by the Assyrians in which year?
722 B.C.
In Genesis 12:1-3, besides numerous descendants and blessings, what does God promise to Abraham?
A land
At the covenant ceremony, after Abraham cuts some animals in half, what happens?
A smoking pot with a blazing fire (representing God) passes between the halves
In Joshua 7, __________ disobeys God by hoarding loot from a conquered city.
Achan
An __________ is a poem in which each successive line of poetry starts with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Acrostics
Jephthah
Ammonites
If a biblical poet describes God as having hands, arms, and feet, then the poet is using what figurative element?
Anthropomorphism
In 2 Samuel 6 David brings the ___________ to Jerusalem, so that it will be the focal point of Israel's worship.
Ark of the covenant
Deuteronomy promises ___________ if Israel obeys God and _________ if Israel disobeys God.
Blessings and Curses
Deborah and Barak
Canaanites
What category of parallelism best describes the following lines: (A) For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, (B) but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
Contrastive
In 539 B.C. King ________ of Persia declared that the Judahite exiles could return to their homeland.
Cyrus
King Jeroboam constructed worship sites for the people of Israel at ___ and _________.
Dan, Bethel
________ was one of the first Judahites carried off into exile by the Babylonians.
Daniel
1-2 Samuel is primarily about who?
David
Who finally completes the conquest?
David
Who is contrasted repeatedly with King Saul?
David
Day 1 God separates light from darkness
Day 4 creates the sun, moon, and stars
Day 2 God separates the sky from the sea
Day 5 God creates birds and fish
Day 3 God separates dry ground from water
Day 6 God creates livestock, wild animals, and people
What is the name of the Philistine prostitute who helps to bring about the downfall of Samson?
Delilah
The people of Israel must keep the terms found in the book of _____________ if they want to live in the Promised Land with God in their midst.
Deuteronomy
At the beginning of 1 Samuel the inept and incompetent ______ serves as the high priest at Shiloh.
Eli
Gideon's story does not end well, because he forms a golden ________ that is ______________ by his family.
Ephod worshiped
Name the first part of plot. This part describes the basic setting of the narrative.
Exposition
A priest named _________ led the second wave of exiles back to Judah in 458 B.C.
Ezra
Which two books were originally written as one book?
Ezra and Nehemiah
After refusing to enter the Promised Land, the people of Israel wander in the wilderness for four hundred years
False
Conflict in narrative is always external.
False
David builds a great temple for God.
False
Ezra, the priest leads the first wave of exiles back to Jerusalem.
False
From Malachi's perspective worship in the new temple is going just fine.
False
God's covenant with Abraham is bilateral.
False
Hezekiah and Josiah are considered some of the worst kings of Judah.
False
In the book of Exodus the people of Israel build God a palace to live in.
False
Joseph lives his entire adult life as a slave in Egypt.
False
Nehemiah successfully prevents the people from returning to their old habits of social injustice and religious formalism.
False
Old Testament poetry is a good source for developing doctrine and propositional truth.
False
Poetry appeals to reason
False
Saul dies while battling the giant Goliath.
False
Taken as a whole you can characterize the book of Joshua as a "bad news" book.
False
The Babylonians conquer the northern kingdom, Israel, in 586 B.C.
False
The Mosaic covenant is identical to the Abrahamic covenant.
False
The Psalms teach us that honesty is not the best policy when it comes to talking to God.
False
When Joseph is reunited with his brothers he seeks revenge.
False
When studying narrative, deciding who is a good guy and who is a bag guy is straightforward.
False
A great ___ reunites Joseph with his brothers in Egypt
Famine
The name Abraham literally means what?
Father of a Multitude
While waiting for Moses to come down from Mount Sinai, what idol do the people decide to build?
Golden Calf
The skills required to read which New Testament genre are most applicable to Old Testament narrative?
Gospel
What are the books of Ezra and Nehemiah about?
How the exiles return to the Promised Land and struggle to rebuild Jerusalem, the temple, and their society.
What figure of speech is defined as a conscious exaggeration for the sake of effect?
Hyperbole
In the Old Testament, God frequently makes this three-part formula-like statement: I Will be your God; you will by my people; and ____.
I will be with you.
Which of these statements is not part of the three-part formula that describes God's relationship with Israel?
I will destroy your enemies
What is the reason why a group of people rebel against King Rehoboam?
Increased the forced labor of Israelites
When God reaffirms his covenant with Jacob, he changes Jacob's name to___.
Israel
Put in order the sequence of events that lead to the downward spiral of disobedience.
Israel turns away from God to idols God hands Israel over to oppressors Israel suffers under foreign domination God raises up a "judge" to deliver Israel
What did the authors of LGW say was the point of the book of Esther?
It is a story of God's great grace toward those Jews who do not obediently return to the Promised Land.
What is the book of Deuteronomy about?
It presents the terms for a blessed life in the Promised Land with God in their midst.
Which prophet tells the people they will live in exile for 70 years?
Jeremiah
Rahab lives inside the walls of which Canaanite city?
Jericho
The people of Israel must cross the ____ to enter the Promised Land.
Jordan River
In Genesis 12:1-3, as God makes his famous promise to Abraham, what does God tell Abraham to do?
Leave his home and his people and travel to a land God showed to him.
Which book stresses holiness, because when God comes to live in your midst everything in your life will change?
Leviticus
The major emphasis in Zechariah is the coming day of the ________.
Lord and the establishment of God's spectacular kingdom
___ and ___ are the two sons of Joseph.
Manasseh, Ephraim
Othniel
Mesopotamians
The prophets are God's spokespersons who deliver God's ___________ to the Israelites.
Message
Gideon
Midianites
Ehud
Moabiites
Type out Dan. 12:2-3
Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
The____ conveys the meaning of a story to the readers.
Narrator
The prophet ________ rebukes David for his affair with Bathsheba.
Nathan
Samson is set apart from birth to be a _________.
Nazirite
God empowers __________ to rebuild the walls and gates of Jerusalem in a short period of time.
Nehemiah
The book of __________ is the final book in the Old Testament.
Nehemiah
Ruth's son _______ later becomes the grandfather of King David.
Obed
______ is the dominant structural characteristic of Old Testament poetry.
Parallelism
Just as in Exodus God parted the Red Sea to deliver the Israelites from slavery, so now in Joshua what does he do to lead them to a new life of blessing in the Promised Land?
Parts the Jordan River
The first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) are often called the ____ by Christians, and called the ____ by the Jews.
Pentateuch, Torah
Samson
Philistines
Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi are called ___________ Prophets because they live and preach after the exile.
Postexilic
The ________ give us inspired models of how to talk and sing to God.
Psalms
Who is the Canaanite prostitute living in Jericho who is saved from destruction?
Rahab
What two characters are contrasted in Joshua 2-7?
Rahab and Achan
King ______________ was the last king of the united monarch of Israel.
Rehoboam
Which plot element immediately follows the climax?
Resolution
In which book does a mother-in-law play a major role?
Ruth
Deuteronomy literally means "__________ law.
Sacred
David's conflict with Goliath highlights the contrast the narrator is drawing between David and _____.
Saul
Who is the first king of Israel?
Saul
The book of Judges ends with the fitting words, "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they_____.
Saw Fit
At the battle of Jericho, God gives the victory to Joshua in
Seven days
Throughout his book, the prophet Jeremiah has an extended wordplay that focuses on the Hebrew word _______ .
Shub
The Prophets make three major indictments or charges against Israel/Judah. Two of these are idolatry and religious ritualism. What is the third indictment?
Social Injustice
What category of parallelism best describes the following lines: (A) The One enthroned in heaven laughs; (B) The LORD scoffs at them.
Synonymous
The ____ is a tent-like temple, where God dwells among the people of Israel.
Tabernacle
_________ means that poetry uses a minimum number of words.
Terseness
Daniel lives through the rule of two different empires. They are:
The Babaylonian and the Persian
Originally the "Minor Prophets" were all placed on one scroll. What was that scroll called?
The Book of the Twelve
What is the book of Judges about?
The downward spiral of disobedience.
Which of the following reasons is a con for using narrative to communicate theological truth?
The meaning can be subtle and ambiguous
Two things that drive the story in the book of Joshua (and indeed, throughout the rest of the OT) are:
The promise to Abraham and the terms of Deuteronomy
Type out Genesis 1:26-28
Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Daniel proves his valiant faithfulness to God when he is:
Thrown into a lion's den
Abrahams's son Issac is born in fulfillment of God's promise.
True
David concocts a plan that will directly lead to the death of Bathsheba's husband, Uriah.
True
Hannah is the humble and faithful mother of Samuel.
True
In the book of Esther, God is not mentioned at all.
True
In the book of Judges, the people of Israel forsook God and worshipped Baal.
True
Jacob's older brother is named Esau.
True
Jesus identifies John the Baptist as the essence of Elijah, which fulfills a prophecy from Malachi
True
Leviticus structures the daily life of Israel around the categories of clean and unclean.
True
Meaning in narrative is primarily found in the actions of characters
True
Moses receives the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai
True
Psalm 119 is an example of an acrostic.
True
Saul responds to God's three blessing with three boneheaded mistakes.
True
The Israelites crossing the Jordan River parallels the New Testament picture of salvation for us.
True
The destruction of Jerusalem and the exile have eliminated idolatry as a serious problem for the Jews.
True
The group we normally refer to as the prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, etc...) came to prominence during the monarchy.
True
The opening chapters of 1Samuel contrast Hannah and Eli.
True
The poets of the Old Testament are attempting to communicate literal truth.
True
The prophet Jonah preaches directly to the Assyrians in Nineveh.
True
The prophets Daniel and Ezekiel are both part of the population of Judah that is taken into exile in Babylon.
True
Throughout the book of Judges, the Israelites have spiraled downward morally and theologically.
True
When the Israelites turn to other gods, God removes His protection and power from them.
True
Abraham is from ___ which is located in the region of ___.
Ur, Mesopotamia
At the very beginning of this chapter, what was used as an illustration of "covenant" in today's world?
Wedding vows
What two standard story questions does plot answer?
What? and How?
Ben Franklin's famous quote, "Let us all hang together or else we may all hang separately." is an example of which literary device listed below?
Wordplay
___ identifies Abraham and his descendants as people who live under the covenant of God.
circumcision
The central theme of Leviticus is "Be _________, because I am _________.
holy, holy
As part of the Abrahamic covenant, God promises Abraham seed, blessing, and _____.
land
Samuel functions as a ____, _______, and ______ in the nation of Israel.
last of the judges, a prophet and priest
____ is a literary form categorized by sequential time action and involving plot, setting, and characters.
narrative
The requirements for a Nazarite are
never drink alcoholic beverages never touch a dead animal never cut his hair
Names the four basic promises in the Abrahamic Covenant God gives to Abraham
promise of land, promise of many descendants, a promise of blessings, and Blessing on and through Abraham to the world
