Bible Unit 4
The traditional Jewish and Christian interpretation of the Song of Songs is
Allegorical
"Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires" comes from
Song of Songs
According to Kugel, biblical poetry can generally be analyzed as saying
A is so, and what more, is B
Israelite wisdom includes
Both A and B
"there is a time for everything" comes from
Ecclesiastes
According to Ps 90, who or what is responsible for the following things: turning men back to dust, sweeping men away in the sleep of death, consuming men in anger, afflicting men?
God
The 'father of form criticism' of the Psalms was
Gunkel
"I know my redeemer lives..." comes from
Job
"Naked I can from my mother's womb..." comes from
Job
"Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble [lit. evil]?" comes from the book of
Job
"Trust in Yahweh with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" come from
Proverbs
"Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before Yahweh our maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care." comes from:
Psalms
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Psalms
"My body also will rest secure, because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay"
Psalms
"Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me"
Psalms
"What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?"
Psalms
"Yahweh is my Shepard, I shall not be in want..."
Psalms
That a righteous person is "like a tree planted by streams of water" and a wicked person "like chaff that the wind blows away" is the imagery of Psalm
Psalms
The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against Yahweh and against his Anointed One....
Psalms
That the Psalm reflected the experience of God's intervention in history rather than the cult of Israel is the teaching of
Westermann
With regards to the prospect of life after death, the OT speaks of
a bodily resurrection
Poetry is defined as
a combo of sounds, meaning, ideas & feelings
Poetic meter is defined as
a patterned flow of language
In the proverb, "can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned?" the word "fire" stands for
adultery, which will bring punishment
The Psalms were written
all of the above
According to Ps 91, whom does God command concerning you, to guard you in all your ways, to lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone?
angels
According to Lowth's system of poetic analysis, "Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses," is an example of
antithetical parallelism
Psalms 119 was written
as an alphabetic acrostic
The Proverbs that say, "Do not answer a fool according to his folly..." and "Answer a fool according to his folly..." show that
both halves of verses are essential to the meaning
According to Claus Westermann, the type of praise that recounts what God has done, and is the dominant praise in biblical psalms and in Luthers hymns, is
declarative praise
The type of praise that relates who God is, and is the dominant praise in Babylonian psalms and contemporary hymns, is
descriptive praise
According to Kugel, the idea of biblical poetry
does not include meter
Most biblical wisdom literature was written
during the reign of Solomon
gods monologue on nature in the latter part of job has a primary purpose to
encourage faith in a merciful creator
After Job worked through the pain of being deprived of his wealth, health, and family, he
enjoyed even more blessings than he had before
The type of criticism which is concerned with identifying genres and the situation in life that lay behind the compositions is
form
A 'Proverb" is
generally true
Theodicy deals with the questions
how can a just god allow evil to exists
Claus Westermann says that the word "praise" in Hebrew
is used where we would use "thanks"
luther says that the finest part of the book of job describes how
job falters and thinks god is a tyrant
jobs protestation of innocence in job 31 shows that he
knew that sins of the heart were true sins
Which interpretation of the Song of Songs explains that the watchmen beat the queen
literal
Hebrew Poetry
often makes use of repetition of similar thoughts in different words
When Ecclesiastes says, "Nothing is better for a man under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad," it means that
people should enjoy the gifts of God
the central message of Job's 3 friends, who came to advise him in his difficulty, was that Job should
repent of his sin, to be helped by God
"My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies" comes from the book of
song of songs
According to Lowth's system of poetic analysis, "They crush your people; they oppress your inheritance," is an example of
synonymous parallelism
According to Lowth's system of poetic analysis, "Unless Yahweh had given me help, I would have soon dwelt in the silence of death," is an example of
synthetic parallelism
Ecclesiastes explores the meaningless of life in order to
teach about the first commandment
According to the Proverbs, at the creation of the world
the angels participated in the work
Which interpretation of the Song of Songs has the most difficulty with the principle that there is one intended sense?
typological
Job confession of sin is particularly helpful to show that he
was more interested in gods mercy than in justice
Job called his 3 friends
worthless physicians
