Bib Lit 1 Final Flashcards
Where is your BIB 110 professor’s office?
reade 147
The meta-question which we will ask throughout this course is . . .
“What understanding of God and of the world and of life emerges from the way things are presented in the OT/HB?”
What crime to heckle and jeckle commit that undermines the collegiate educational economy?
“Academic Insider Trading”
This cheat monster preys on the angry puffed up entitled student
Tex-Rex the Swaggerer
This cheat monster preys on the anxious discouraged fearful student
Vladimir the disquieter
the word
“canon” is derived from the hebrew word “quaneh” and the greek word “kanon” which originally signified this
A reed or measuring stick
this city on the southwestern coast of israel was the site of the council of jewish scholars sometime around AD 90 who seem to have confirmed what most Jews had already recognized for generations as the books of the old testament
Jamnia
This group of jewish scribes worked around AD 500-1000 to preserve the old testament text that they had received. they had devised systems for writing vowels, for marking accents, and for writing detailed notes on the text
The Masoretes
This text of the OT was produced by a group of mixed Jewish and foreign descent who thought that they preserved a more ancient and pure form of faith
Samaritan Pentateuch
this collection of ancient manuscripts discovered in the area of Qumran confirms the reliability of the Masoretic text of the hebrew bible
dead sea scrolls
according to the textbook this hebrew text is the most reliable that we have
Masoretic text
this collection of aramaic writings based on the OT text provided common interpretations and commentary on the hebrew text for jewish people who understood aramaic better than Hebrew
the Targums
according to the textbook this form of ancient writing employed wedge-shaped incised into wet clay
cuneiform
The date for the lives of Israels patriarchs (Abraham, Issac, Jacob) may be generally placed in this age
bronze age
the dates of israels kings are generally placed in this age
Iron age
the group of newcomers to the ancient near east 1200s BC distributed all the major powers of the ancient. The Philistines were apart of this group
Sea peoples
native egyptian rule ended in egypt for about 150 years when this group of Semitic foreigners took over the country
Hyskos
the Babylonian king was responsible for the destruction and exile of the southern kingdom of Judah
Nebuchadnezzar II
this persian king was famous for his policy of tolerance and benevolence. he decreed that captive people in babylon were free to return to their homelands and establish a measure of self-rule
Cyrus
the northern kingdom of israel, especially under king omri and ahab, combined Mosiac Yahwism with this religion
Canaanite Baalism
the assyrian king brought the assyrian empire back to full strength in the eighth century BC
Tiglath-Pileser III
this assyrian King laid siege to Samaria, the capital city of northern kingdom of israel which eventually fell about three years later
Shalmaneser V
This region of the ancient near east is associated with the tigris and euphrates rivers
mesopotamia
this region of the ancient near east is associated with the jordan river valley and the levant
Syria-palestine
according to dr. smith our lives consist of a series of decisions which we each make regarding
power, wealth, relationships
the name of this early christian leader has come to epitomize disparagement of the OT as holy scripture
Marcion
in the tradition of OT wisdom Paul conceives of a community’s engagement with scripture as a process involving teachers, students, and texts. which of the following represents how paul understands this process functioning?
when the process is going poorly, there are teachers of poor character, textual incompetence, a non-apostolic (ie foreign) doctrines driving it, when the process is going well, there are teachers characterized by virtue, textual competence, and apostolic doctrines driving it, paul understands that it is God who makes the process work well for edification of the Christian community, but the apostle sees God achieving this through human instruments that have purified themselves and are thus useful for his purposes.
According to 1 Timothy 1:5 love is a product of
Pure heart, good conscience, sincere faith
in 1 timothy 1:3-11 Paul links the goodness of the law with one using it…
Lawfully
in 2 timothy 3:14-17 paul explains the value of the OT for christians in terms of its functionality as…
WIsdom literature
which of the following individuals is noted for their serious engagement with the OT when formulating their own philosophies?
thomas hobbes, JOhn Locke, jean jacques Rousseau
According to Dr. Smith the HB/OT is a touchstone for both christian education and liberal arts education
True
critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or patterns in order to develop a deep, precise understanding of a texts form, craft, meanings, etc. is best associated with…
Close reading
in the hebrew canon, the books of genesis-deuteronomy are associated with the…
Torah
In the hebrew canon, the books joshua-2 kings are associated with the…
Former prophets
in the hebrew canon, the books of isaiah-malachi are associated with the…
Latter porhpets
this term refers to the greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
The septuagint
this term refers to those “extra books” which are included in catholic bibles but are usually excluded nowadays from the protestant Bibles
The apocrypha
Your BIB 110 professor suggests that when we speak of “the story of the bible” we should be mindful that…
neither the bible as a whole nor the OT and NT in themselves is literarily presented as a story, the Bible is not a narrative but is a collection of different types of literature, the BIble testifies or witnesses to an on-going story of what God has done, is doing, and will do with this world and everything in it.
Your BIB 110 professor argues that each work of literature in the Bible is a masterpiece of the highest aesthetic and artistic quality
False
This term refers to “any recognizable and distinguishable type of writing or speech which operates within certain conventions that are statable in principle”
Genre
this term refers to “having command of the conventions governing the production and thus the meaning of literary compositions”
literary competence
the more the language of a discourse is schematic and figurative, the more it is associated with///
Poetry
the more the language of a discourse is non-schematic and literal, the more it is associated with…
Prose
hard evidence for the convention of composing major literary works from pre-existing literary material is documented in the history of composition associated with this major ancient near eastern literary work
the epic of gilgamesh
this style of narrative prose in the hebrew bible is laconic and tends to refrain from direct commentary on events and persons
Saga style
This style of narrative prose in the hebrew bible is one in which the divine attitude towards the actions of human characters is made unmistakable clear when overt evaluation statements are made regarding whether the deeds of the characters in the story were right or wrong
Deuteronomistic style
this style of narrative prose in the hebrew bible is distinguished by what may appear to us as ponderous repetition and a tendency to use set formulas, along with a concern for matters of purity, worship, and liturgy rather than political and domestic events
priestly style
resistance to understanding the bible as literature is a recent phenomenon
faslse
which of the following was a feature that all religious cultures of the ancient near east had in common
Polytheism, sexuality, in the divine realm, kingship related to the gods
this date corresponds to the period of Israel’s patriarchs
2000-1550 BC
this date corresponds to the exilic period of babylonian rule
586-539 BC
This date is about when David became king
1000 BC
this date is when samaria fell and the northern kingdom of israel was exiled to Assyria
722 BC
this date marks the decree of Cyrus the great ending Judahs babylonian exile
538 BC
In this course we have spoken of the philosophy both as “the love of wisdom” and the…
management of knowledge
according to diogenes Laertius this person was the first to use the term “philosophia” and to call himself a philosopher
pythagoras
this eleatic greek philosopher attributed his rational philosophy, indeed, the very art of reasoning, to revelation he received from a goddess, a revelation of the power of reasoning
Parmenides
this ancient philosopher is best known for his belief in the one-ness of all things (‘monism”) and his doubts regarding the reliability of human knowledge
Xeniphanes
ancient greek philosophical tradition considered reason and revelation to be opposed to one another
False
In colossians 2:8 the apostle Paul advises christians to stay away from philosophy because all philosophy because all philosophy inherently empty and deceitful
false
the branch of philosophy deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space
Metaphysics
This branch of philosophy is concerned with knowledge, the theory of knowledge, especially with regards to its methods, validity, and scope. it includes the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinon
Epistemology
your BIB 110 professor suggests that it is justifiable, convenient, and helpful to see both theology and philosophy as subsumed within a biblical conception of wisdom
True
which one of the following pertains primarily to irrationalism generally and anti-reason particularly, and involves an assault on reason, coherence, and the “law” of non-contradiction as culturally constructed tools for opression?
De-Hellenizing Christianity
This is the basic etymological meaning of the word “theology”
“god-talk”
this word functions in the bible as the nearest semantic equivalent to the word theology
wisdom
the first occurrence of the word “theology” in literary history is found in this ancient work
platos republic
which of the following is a source for theology
tradition, reason, experience
what kind of definition of theology already has theological conclusions “baked into” it regarding the locus of revelation?
Prescription definitions
what kind of definition of theology does NOT recapitulate a theology of revelation because it is recognized that positing the locus of revelation is itself an exercise in theology?
descriptive definitions
the authority of the OT is a perennial and systemic challenge for theology on this major religion
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
This perennial and systemic challenge for theology is concerned with explaining the existence of evil in relation to God
Theodicy
this perennial and systemic challenge for theology is particularly associated with the question of “How involved is God with Creation?”
Transcendence vs. Immanence