Old Testament Exam 1 Springer Study Guide

Where was Abraham's original home

Ur of the Chaldees

Holiness is

a key idea in Leviticus

At Bethel, what did Jacob see

a ladder to heaven

describe an "unclean" animal

animal which was unfit for sacrifice

Pseudopigrapha

are books which claim to be written by ancient prophets

The Talmud

are notes and commentaries on the Hebrew scriptures

Five Rolls

are shorter books read as Jewish festivals

The dead seas scrolls

are the oldest and most important Old Testament manuscripts

"autographs"

are the original writings as completed by their human authors.

Joshua said

as for me and my house we will serve the lord

The Apocrapha

contains books written from 200 B.C. to 100 A.D.

Rueben

convinced his brothers not to kill Joseph

What does the word Testament mean

covenant or agreement

Human beings are the

crowning glory of God's creation

the plagues of Egypt

directly and indirectly challenged the authority of the Egyptian gods.

Adam and Eve chose to

disobey

In the Bible, the word "lust" meant to

earnestly covet

Job's wife

encouraged him to "curse God and die"

The patriarchal period

extends from approx 2100 B.C. to 1850 B.C.

Joshua is known for his

faith, courage, and skill in leadership

What did Abraham's name mean

father of a multitude

God promises blessings to those who

fulfill the conditions of His covenant

Israel entered a

golden age of obedience and blessing after David became king

God promised to give Abraham a

great name

God's covenant is based on

his mercy and grace

God created man and women as equals and both are created

in his image and both are told to have domination or authority over the earth

Jasher

is a book mentioned but not included in the old testament

Parallelism

is a prominent feature in Hebrew poetry

"Ziggurat"

is a tower and is associated with the Tower of Babel

Enoch

is mentioned for his fellowship with God

Isaiah

is the Old Testament brook most often quoted in the New testament

Koine

is the form of Greek used in the New Testament

Samuel encouraged the people not to get a

king

The two important commands God gave were to

love God with your whole heart and to love your neighbor as much as you love yourself

Elohim

means "God of Power"

The Torah

means The Law and is the first division of the Hebrew Scriptures

"canon"

means that which is measured by an authoritative rule or standard

Lot compromised with sin by

offering his daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom

Hosea

one of the "Minor Prophets"

The grand theme of the Bible is

redemption or salvation

Aramaic

replaced Hebrew as the spoken language of the Israelites after the Babylonian captivity

The Old Testament is the

scripture used by Jesus and the first disciples

Genesis 4-11 tells how

sin spread through the human family like terminal cancer through a human body

The Psalms speak of struggles with

sin, joys, and sorrows, failures and victories

Inequality between man and women are the result of

sin. After Adam and Eve sinned, both of them were punished. The Words: "he shall rule over you" are a part of this punishment. They are not a part of God's original intention as presented in Genesis

Adam and Eve were created without a

sinful nature

Joshua was chosen to

succeed Moses and to lead Israel to the Promise Land

The "gap theory"

suggests that many years may have elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2

The JEPD theory

suggests that the Pentateuch raises from several sources and was completed in about 400 A.D.

In the New Testament we read

that Christ has redeemed us from the "curse of the law" and that in Christ, there is "neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female."

The Pentateuch tells us

that God hates sin as well as what sin does to his perfect creation

According to Lennox, the Old Testament is

the best commentary ever written on the New Testament

The Psalms portray

the character of David's relationship with God

Abraham is known as

the father of all who have faith

Tyndale

the first to make an English translation directly from the Hebrew and Greek

Inspirations refers to

the way the Word of God has been recorded in scripture

Revelation includes all the ways that God makes himself known :

through the Bible, through nature, through conscience, through the holy spirit, through Christ

Jamina

was a Jewish council that made the recognition of the Old Testament books official

the Bible says that Abraham believed God and it "..."

was credited to him as righteousness"

The Fertile Crescent

was the center of the Old Testament world

Tiament

was the goddess of the deep in the Babylonian creation epic

Elihu

was the man who discussed the disciplinary values of suffering

The Septuagint

was the version of the Old Testament used by Jesus

An agnostic is one

who does not believe that once can know if God exists.

Leviticus says

you must be holy because the Lord your God is holy

As Joseph looks back over his like and he says

"they intended it for evil against me, but God intended it for good"

The word "bara"

(to make out of nothing) is used three times in the creation account

The Hebrew word "yom"

(translated as "day" in Genesis chapter one) is translated elsewhere as "generation" or "age"

the Bible was written over a period of approximately how many years?

1500 years

Commentary

A book (or online reference) which gives notes or explanation on chapters and books in the Bible is called a commentary

Condorance

A book (or online reference) which lists each word in the Bible and tells each reference where that word can be found

Samuel

Both Saul and David were anointed as kings by

God's most perfect revelation of himself is found in ..?

Christ

In the Pentateuch...

God is described as perfect

Eden was the garden where

God put Adam and Eve

When God described Himself to Moses...

He emphasized his compassion

When Potiphar's wife attempted to seduce Joseph, he said

How can I do this evil and sin against God

David

Is Psalms principle written and compiler

Book of Psalms is made up of

Israel's prayer book and hymn book

The writer of the Old and New testaments believed

Moses wrote the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament)

Judges

The book of Ruth belongs to the period of the ...