Chapter 18-24 Flashcards

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Second Isaiah

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Deutero-Isaiah
Ch 40-55
6th century bce

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First Isaiah

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Ch 1-39
Isaiah in Jerusalem
Late 8th & early seventh
Jerusalem under siege but not destroyed

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Third isaiah

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Ch 56-66

During 5th century BCE

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Syro-ephraimite war

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Damascus/Syria and northern kingdom of Israel formed a coalition to block assyria’s advance and Judah refused to join

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Immanuel

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God is with us
Isaiah 7.14 and 8.3
A son of king Ahaz, probably hezekiah or of Isaiah (most likely)
A pregnant woman is to give birth to a son with a symbolic name

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Hezekiah’s tunnel

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Siloam tunnel
1700’ long
Divert water from the gihon spring in the Liston valley to the Siloam pool
Preparation for the Syrian attack of 701bce
Found in 1880

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Megiddo

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Josiah’s attempt to block the Egyptian advance in 609
A major pass from the coastal road to the interior.
The site of the final battle between the forces of good and evil (rev. 16:16)

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Confessions of Jeremiah

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In first major section of Jeremiah
Show deep unhappiness with the message he was delivering, divine retribution, enduring commitment to the divine call
Fictional autobiography
Weary of withholding the fire within

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Prophetic gestures

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Prophets communicated their message by performing symbolic actions
Remaining unmarked
Purchase of a jug- as one breaks a potters vessel so that is can never be mended
Wearing an animals yoke on his neck- warning towards kings of Moab, espn, tyre and Sidon forming a coalition agains Nebuchadnezzar. All become subjects of Babylonian king
Purchase of land in anathoth- symbolic guarantee that after that struggle

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Synagogues

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The diaspora established houses of prayer and community centers.
Face direction of Jerusalem

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Acrostic

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A poem in which the first letters of successive lines from a word or pattern.
Alphabetic acrostics in bible
Aid to reciter’s memory
Lamentations has 4 in first 4 chapters.

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Diaspora

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people who were exiles from Babylonian attack

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Second isaiah

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Principal enemy is babylon

Jerusalem is destroyed and will be restored.

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Servant songs

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In 1892, Bernard duhm found 4 passages in Isaiah
The servant is Israel personified as a prophet
Isa 42.1-4
Isa 49.1-6
Isa 50.4-11
Isa 52.13-53.12

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Second temple

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The rebuilt temple dedicated in 515

Period lasted late 6th century to 70ce when captured and destroyed by Romans

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Third isaiah

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56-66
Trito-Isaiah
Temple is restored and functioning
Early postexhilic
Difficult to date
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Apocalyptic

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To uncover, to reveal
Starting at postexilic period to common era
Revelation to designated human by heavenly messenger
Explication of past and present in coded language
End-time in near future
Dualism
Pessimism about present, optimistic about future
Incorporations of mythic traditions
Surreal imagery rather than realistic

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Isaiah apocalypse

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Describes end time

Isa 24-27

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Aramaic

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Ezra, Daniel, Jeremiah, genesis 31.47

Semitic language originally spoken in aram. General language of the area.

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Writings

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Wide amt of genres

Chronicles psalms proverbs

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The chronicler

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Author of chronicles

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Parallelism

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Repetition, synonyms or opposites

Found in ugaritic and Mesopotamian poetry

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Wisdom literature

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Concerned with the realities of human experience

Analogous to philosophy

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Proverb

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Short saying that pithily expresses insight into experience

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Woman wisdom

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Proverbs 1-9
Wisdom as a female figure
Divine companion
Source of order in society and success in life

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Theodicy

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Divine justice

Experience suggests otherwise in Job and Ecclesiastes

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Son of man

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Human being, in contrast to Divine being
Ezekiel
Daniel
Mortals, inferior
In Daniel- looks human but clearly more than human. 
1. Supreme power on earth
Or
2. Faithful people of Israel personified
3. Messianic figure
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Angel

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Messenger
Refers to both human and divine messengers
Part of divine council