Exam 1 Study Flash Cards

Question 1

What theories deal with the idea that God influenced the writings of the OT, that the OT “came from God?”

Answer 1

Inspiration

Question 2

Which set of theories deals with the idea that God communicates through the Old Testament?

Answer 2

Revelation

Question 3

According to this theory of Inspiration, God’s Spirit influences the scripture writer but only to the degree that the writer’s natural abilities are heightened.

Answer 3

Illumination Theory

Question 4

According to this theory of Inspiration, God’s Spirit gives the ideas but the writers can express them in his/her own words

Answer 4

Dynamic Theory

Question 5

In what three languages were the Christian scriptures originally written?

Answer 5

Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek

Question 6

Which is the correct chronological order of persons?

Answer 6

Abraham, Moses, David, Ezra

Question 7

What is the name of the theory proposed by Julius Wellhausen, and used with varying degrees of modification by the majority of contemporary Old Testament scholars, to explain that the first five books of the Old Testament came at the end of a long process of merging four different sources (commonly designated J, E, D, P) written by different people at different times?

Answer 7

Documentary Hypothesis

Question 8

Which writing tradition tended to use the word elohim for BEFORE Moses, and the word Yahweh for God after Moses

Answer 8

Priestly

Question 9

Most Old Testament scholars think that the “book of the law of the Lord” found during the cleansing of the temple during Josiah’s reign was an early form of which of the following?

Answer 9

Deuteronomy

Question 10

Which one of the following is stressed in the Deuteronomic History?

Answer 10

If you obey the covenant, you are blessed; and, if you disobey the covenant, you are cursed.

Question 11

The two main rivers of Mesopotamia are the Tigris and the ___________________.

Answer 11

Euphrates

Question 12

Which of the following is one of the four major geographic areas of Palestine

Answer 12

The Central Hill Country

Question 13

Which is the correct temporal order of the following Empires during the Old Testament/Hebrew Biblical era?

Answer 13

Neo-Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman

Question 14

Which kingdom did Jeroboam II rule?

Answer 14

Israel

Question 15

In what year did the Kingdom of Israel fall and who was the king then?

Answer 15

722 . . . . Hoshea