Final Exam Writen Response

Question 1

Why was Moses a G

Answer 1

Witnessed a theophany, dedicated his life to God, revealed God in the form of law, and talked directly with God

Question 2

What is the primary task of the Israelite prophet?

Answer 2

Truth teller

Question 3

Who were the prophets of the Assyrian Crisis?

Answer 3

Isaiah of Israel
Micah
Zephaniah
Nahum

Question 4

Babylonian Crisis

Answer 4

Jeremiah
Habakkuk
Obadiah

Question 5

During the Exile

Answer 5

Ezekiel

Second Isaiah

Question 6

After the Exile

Answer 6

Jonah 
Haqqai 
Zechariah 
Third Isaiah 
Joel 
Malachi

Question 7

Three styles of Hebrew poetic parallelism

Answer 7

Synonymous, antithetical, synthetic

Question 8

7 categories of the Hebrew Psalms

Answer 8

Hymns, Hymns of Thanksgiving, Lamentations, Blessing and Cursing, Royal Psalms, Enthronement Psalms, Psalms of Wisdom and Instruction

Question 9

List the Five books in the Megillot

Answer 9

Ruth, Lamentations, Song of Songs, Esther, Ecclesiastes

Question 10

Which book doesn’t mention God

Answer 10

Esther

Question 11

What were the causes of the Maccabean Revolt?

Answer 11

Antiochus made decrees against the Jewish Religion

Question 12

How might Ezra be called the Founder of Judaism

Answer 12

Reconstituted the Jewish community based on the Torah