Exam 1

Question 1

Invention of writing

Answer 1

end of 4th millennium BCE (early 3000s)

Question 2

Location of invention of writing

Answer 2

Mesopotamia

Question 3

Invention of alphabet

Answer 3

18th cen BCE

Question 4

Location of invention of alphabet

Answer 4

Canaan

Question 5

First Temple Period

Answer 5

10th-6th cen BCE

Question 6

Second Temple Period

Answer 6

6th cen BCE - 1st cen CE

Question 7

Pre-Exilic period ends

Answer 7

ca. 586

Question 8

Post Exilic Period begins

Answer 8

ca 538

Question 9

Five types of History of the HB

Answer 9

1. the story, 2. the people, places, events behind text, 3. compositional history, 4. textual history, 5. reception history

Question 10

The 4 sections of the English Bible

Answer 10

Pentateuch, History, Poetry, Prophets

Question 11

Three sections of the Hebrew Bible

Answer 11

Torah, Prophets, Writings

Question 12

Hebrew acronymic name

Answer 12

Tanakh

Question 13

Subdivisions of part two of Hebrew Bible division

Answer 13

Former and Latter Prophets

Question 14

What’s the reason for order of English Bible?

Answer 14

organized by genre

Question 15

1st order method

Answer 15

interpretation/understanding

Question 16

2nd order method

Answer 16

text in relation to intellectual or political issue

Question 17

3rd order method

Answer 17

use biblical text for purpose beyond text

Question 18

Textual criticism

Answer 18

determining exact wording of text

Question 19

Redaction criticism

Answer 19

how various parts are edited together to form argument

Question 20

Rhetorical criticism

Answer 20

suasive force of a text and way language is deployed to convey meaning

Question 21

Historical criticism

Answer 21

reconstructing events using biblical narratives

Question 22

Source criticism

Answer 22

reconstruct documents presumed to underlie biblical compositions

Question 23

Form criticism

Answer 23

discovery and cataloguing repeated oral patterns and considering setting of text in life of the people

Question 24

Reader-response criticism

Answer 24

Meaning is created by readers, rejecting authorial intention

Question 25

Deconstruction

Answer 25

“reading against the grain” text as site of conflict overturn binaries resist domination and exclusion

Question 26

Queer criticism

Answer 26

centrality of sex and gender in social structures, opposing normative categories and binaries

Question 27

Contrapuntal reading

Answer 27

Edward Said, relativize governing discourse by juxtaposing dominant text with dissident voice

Question 28

Ecocriticsm

Answer 28

ethical questions of humans and biosphere

Question 29

example of first order

Answer 29

textual, redaction, rhetorical

Question 30

example of second order

Answer 30

feminist, womanist, reader-response, deconstruction, postcolonial, queer, eco

Question 31

example of third order

Answer 31

historical, source, form

Question 32

Palestine/Canaan water

Answer 32

Sea of Galilee, Jordan River, Dead Sea

Question 33

North Israel towns

Answer 33

Samaria, Shechem

Question 34

Middle Towns

Answer 34

Bethel, Jerusalem

Question 35

Judah Towns

Answer 35

Hebron, Beersheba

Question 36

All Palestine Towns

Answer 36

Samaria, Shechem, Bethel, Jerusalem, Hebron, Beersheba

Question 37

West Babylon Water

Answer 37

Mediterranean, Nile, Red Sea

Question 38

East Babylon Rivers

Answer 38

Euphrates (to the left), Tirgris (to the right/above)

Question 39

Euphrates River

Answer 39

longer, to the left, below

Question 40

Tigris River

Answer 40

shorter, to the right, above

Question 41

Northern Babylon Towns

Answer 41

Haran, Nineveh

Question 42

Southern Babylon Towns

Answer 42

Babylon, Ur

Question 43

Haran

Answer 43

North west (left)

Question 44

Nineveh

Answer 44

North east (right)

Question 45

Babylon

Answer 45

South west (left)

Question 46

Ur

Answer 46

South east (right)