Exam 2 Flashcards
How is God’s glory revealed in Canaan
- As radiant beauty
- As consuming fiery justice
Route and tactics of the war campaigns (Joshua)
- Route: Joshua first leads Central campaign, then South campaign, then North campaign
- Tactics: Divide and conquer, drive out the canaanites or exterminate them
What’s so bad about the Canaanites
-Worshipped false gods:
El (High God) Asherah (El's wife) Baal (Son) Astarte (Daughter) Anath (Daughter)
-High places:
Canaanites built these altars to Baal, Baal would get aroused by sacrifice (animal, child), Canaanites would have sex to arouse Baal so that his rain (semen) would fall on crops
What is Biblical Justice
-To “set things right” , to intervene in a situation that is evil and oppressive
What are Jericho’s famous walls
- Were rebuilt 17 times
- Inner wall= richer
- Outer wall= poorer
Battle lessons from Joshua’s strategies (Central Campaign-Jericho)
Strategy: Surveillance, gather information
-Joshua sends 2 spies, a prostitute (Raehab) houses them to do their surveillance.
Some battles require obedience and faith in divine intervention
(Walls can become ramps)
-March around city 7 times and blow trumpets, walls fall.
Battle lessons from Joshua’s strategies (Southern Campaign)
Strategy: exploit discord within Canaan’s city-states
-Sometimes there is a battle after another after another, (trust the lord in the midst of confusion)
Battle lessons from Joshua’s strategies (Northern Campaign)
Strategy: enter the hill country to avoid iron chariots
-Some battles require the indirect approach (the “head-on” approach is unwise)
Significance of El-Marna tablets
- Written from Canaanite rulers, asking help from Egypt (getting invaded)
- Proof the Israelites truly did invade Canaan around this time
What happened in the dark ages (Judges)
- Israelites didn’t drive out all Canaanite influence
- everyone did what they wanted
- shows when lawlessness and sin get to a point where it’s evil
Hebrew notion of “Judges”
Military Deliverers
What is Spiritual syncretism
Israelites worshipped Yahweh and Canaanite gods
6 sin-cycles
God sends deliverer (Judge)
Faithful and Free
Fall into Apostasy
Provoke God
Oppressed by enemies
Cry out to God
(Repeat)
Basic story of Ruth
- All the men in her family die
- Devoted to taking care of her mother, goes to Bethlehem to work in field
- Who would want a woman “with a past”? , Boaz (owner of field) takes notice in her
- Boaz (son of Raehab) sees Ruth as God sees her
3 main characters (1-2 Samuel)
Samuel: Son of Hannah, Priest, Judge, Profit
Saul: Wealthy, Handsome, 1st king of Israel
David: Runt of big shepherd family, known for music
2 main transitions (1-2 Samuel)
Tribal confederation (12 tribes no leader of all, vulnerable to invaders) to Monarchy (demand a king, united)
Priesthood (becomes corrupt, ark stolen by philistines) to Prophetism (truth-speaking, call to return to the Lord)
Corruption of the priesthood
- Eli is head of priests, 2 sons were worthless sinners
- Sons put sauce on sacrifices, sex with women outside temple (Sins)
Stolen Ark and Dagon
- Sometimes people will try to use God=People trying to use God for personal gain
- Sometimes people try to place God next to their idols=Philistines place Ark next to Dagon statue, next day Dagon is knocked over, and God inflicts the Philistines with tumors
- Sometimes people try to push God away=Philistines send ark back via 2 cows, they bring the ark back to Israel
How did David handle Saul’s jealousy
David would play his lyre so Saul was refreshed, and the harmful spirit departed from him
“anti-kingdom” of Saul vs. David’s kingdom
Saul’s Anti- Kingdom: false spirituality, all about image, duplicity
David’s True-Kingdom: True spirituality, Authentic ministry, Integrity
Main message of the Wisdom books
Have a relationship with the Lord, Israel’s majority walked away from God and suffered
Key to interpreting Hebrew Poetry (Parallelism)
3 types of parallelism:
- Synonymous: 2nd line reiterates 1st line
- Antithetical: 2nd line contrasts 1st line
- Synthetical: 2nd line adds to 1st line
What is the meaning of “Psalm”
To Sing
How many books in the Psalms
5 collections
Who authored most of the psalms, and the first to organize choirs and worship bands?
David
Purpose of the Psalms
God reigns= Worthy of worship (The Big Plan)
What are most of the Psalms about
Praising God
Selah
- to pause
- musical notation
- silent reflection
Doxology
-ends with an “Amen, Amen”
Solomon’s “Glory-Kingdom”
- Builds up the city
- Converts tabernacle to temple (7 years)
- 12 districts
- Network of Alliances (trade)
Define “the fear of the Lord is the beginning/principle of wisdom”
the beginning: catalyst to acquire wisdom
the principle: result of searching for wisdom
What is a proverb
Through solomon living his life and giving moments of wisdom
- Concise
- Often figurative, always applicable
- Designed to be prescriptive for daily life
Hebrew wisdom
Practical orientation toward God
Steps to wisdom
Ask God for it, be aware of his presence, Acknowledge when he illuminates a truth, be devoted to that truth, End Result=You will glorify the Lord!
Hebrew wisdom “Two Paths”
Get brighter and brighter: Acknowledge God, be aware of his presence
Get darker and darker: Way of the fool
Meaning of “vanity/meaningless”
Everything is “transitory”
2 concepts of time
Kairos moments: turning points (in life)
Kronos Intervals: daily grind (preparing you for next Kronos moment)
(Job) What did Satan want to prove, what did God want to prove
- Satan wanted to prove people only love God because he bribes them
- God wanted to prove people truly love him
Perspective of Job’s friends on his plight
- It’s probably something you did
- It’s for your own good
Why did God bring up Leviathan, a 7-headed Dragon, at the end?
Resembles the cruel nature behind Job’s suffering (Satan)
Main takeaway from Job’s story
Don’t get stuck in the prison of “why”, God is for us not against us
Battle lessons from Joshua’s strategies (Central Campaign-Al)
- Strategy: Lie in wait
- Some battles require we lay low to allow God to draw things into the open (before we do anything)
