Exam 2 Flashcards
Faithfulness of God in fulfilling covenant promises
The conquest and apportionment of Land
Importance of obedience
Key ideas Joshua
Cycles of Judges period
God’s justice and Grace
God’s sovereign provision of deliverers
Covenant failure by the people, priests, and the tribal leadership
Role of Spirit of the Lord
Key ideas Judges
God’s faithfulness and loyalty stimulated by people’s faithfulness and loyalty to one another
David’s faith shown to be legacy of his ancestors
The light of loyalty dispersed during the apostasy of the Judges period
The concept of kinsman-redeemer introduced
Key ideas Ruth
The institution of kingship
The process toward establishing a covenant with David’s line
The importance of divine kingship
Key ideas 1-2 Samuel
Kingship- good and evil
The prophetic voice as the royal conscience
Worship- Yahwism vs Baalism
Covenant blessings (repentance and restoration) and curses (judgement and exile)
Key Ideas Kings 1-2
The retelling of the past to inspire hope in the present
The reigns of David and Solomon idealized
The centrality of temple worship
The validation of the priests and Levites as community leaders
Key ideas 1-2 Chronicles
The physical restoration of the city of Jerusalem
Yahweh as a covenant-keeping God
Religious and social reform as the aftermath of repentance
Key ideas Ezra-Nehemiah
Before the flood
Genesis 1-7. From creation until the flood
After the Flood
Genesis 8-11. The time of the flood until the call of Abraham
Jacob moved his family to Egypt
1876 BC
Gen 46-47
Bondage in Egypt and Exodus
1806-1447 BC
Exodus 1-14
Death of Joseph to time of crossing red sea
Wilderness and wanderings
1447-1407 BC
Crossing of Red sea until crossing of Jordan River into promised land
Conquest and possession of promised land
1407 to 1360 BC
Crossing of Jordan River into promised land until the beginning of Judges
The Judges period
1360-1051 BC
Joshua’s death to Saul annointed first king of Israe
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The United Kingdom
1051 BC to 931 BC
From saul’s anointing as first king of Israel until death of Solomon
Divided Kingdom
From death of Solomon to when Assyrians conquered Northern Kingdom of Israel and carried ten tribes into exile.
Judah Alone
From eend of Northern Kingdom of Israel until “Exile” of Judah and the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple
Babylonia captivity/exile
605-537
Events from the final fall of the Southern Kingdom to the decree of Medo-Persian King Cyrus which allowed the Jews to return to their homeland
Restoration
537-445
Ezar, Nehemiah, ESther
God created, and creation was good.
- Disobedience, separated people from God
- God instituted a program of revelation called the covenant
Genesis
- The supremacy of Yahweh over pagan deities
- Exodus as redemptive event for ancient Israel
- The Mosaic law as a religious and social charter for Israel
- The presence of God symbolized in the tabernacle
Exodus
- The holiness of God
- The purity of the covenant community
- The principle of substitution in sacrificial ritual
- The principle of mediation in service of the priests
- The redeeming of time by means of the liturgical calendar
Leviticus
- God’s faithfulness to his covenant promises
- Divine testing of human motives
- God communicating his truth through the medium of culture
- God’s sovereign rule of the nations
Numbers
- The importance of central worship
- The emphasis on the name of God
- The organization of laws with reference to the Ten Commandments
- The centrality of loving and obeying the covenant God
Deuteronomy
God is at work even when he is behind scenes
The schemes of the wicked are doomed
God’s plan for his people cannot be thwarted
Esther
