Final Test

Question 1

In what three languages is the Bible written?

Answer 1

Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic

Question 2

Who was Huldah

Answer 2

A prophetess who decide that Deuteronomy was word of God. Spole of the king as “that man” – did not see him as someone special

Question 3

What’s going on with the so-called “Curse of Ham”?

Answer 3

Noah cursing the canonizes, used to justify slavery in modern times. Racist passage in context.
Its the so called curse of Ham because his decedents get cursed but he doesn’t.

Question 4

What do you find striking about Psalm 137?

Answer 4

Horrible impulse that was not censored by jewish scribes. God accepts all emotions

Question 5

Orthodoxy

Answer 5

Right teaching, right opinion

Question 6

Proleptic

Answer 6

representing the future now

Question 7

septuagint

Answer 7

greek, old translation of the Bible that appears whenever the New Testament quotes the oOld testament

Question 8

Enuma Elish

Answer 8

Older than Genesis. Non-Jewish creation story. seems to be a lot of the source for Genesis

Question 9

Israel

Answer 9

“wrestles with God”

Question 10

Day of the Lord

Answer 10

Not the day the world ends, the day he makes everything right.

Question 11

Lex Talionis

Answer 11

Right of Retaliation (eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth)

Question 12

Deuteronomy

Answer 12

Hulda stated it was part of the word of God

Question 13

Satan

Answer 13

Hebrew for accuser

Question 14

Theophany

Answer 14

A vision of God

Question 15

Orthopraxy

Answer 15

“right practice”

Question 16

Theodicy

Answer 16

why God lets evil happen

Question 17

“She is more in the right than I”

Answer 17

Genesis 38:26
Tamar, Judah
significant because women were never considered more righteous than men during this time

Question 18

“And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”

Answer 18

Jonah 4:11
Here is God saying “come on Jonah, you cared about a tree… isn’t it okay for me to care about more than 100,000 people?” Jonah hating god for loving his people

Question 19

“Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs a new forth, do you no perceive it?”

Answer 19

Isaiah 4319
» universalistic in a way that people don’t like. God is going to conquer death. God is going to command that people don’t make war anymore. This is prophecy of Isaiah. Isaiah is saying that God is saying this. Important because it is a prophet doing what a prophet has always done.. > God says forget all that. Means: don’t focus on the old stuff in a way that you don’t perceive the new stuff God is saying.

Question 20

“They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat.”

Answer 20

Isaiah 65:17… its about labor relations. The people who build the houses will be able to afford the houses they are building. The world would be “correct” in its labor. “my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands”. They work for themselves. Freed from slavery and exploitation. God is saying that he iswith the Jewish people as they try to achieve a higher moral standard.

Question 21

In what sense is the Book of Proverbs to be viewed as a series of generalizations?

Answer 21

*Its contradictions with the two proverbs side by side. “Never speak to a fool in his folling” “Always speak to a fool in his folling.

Question 22

What happened between Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, and Baruch?

Answer 22

Jeremiah wrote stories. Baruch was his scribe. Jehoiakim was the king that burn the scroll because he didn’t like what Jeremiah wrote.

Question 23

What surprisingly dim view of blessedness does the primary speaker within Ecclesiastes espouse?

Answer 23

Those who were never born are more blessed than the living.

Question 24

What’s the difference between prophetic consciousness and royal consciousness?

Answer 24

Prophetic mean “The earth is the Lord’s. Oppress the poor.

Royal mean “ The way things are/ should be.

Question 25

Apocalyptic

Answer 25

Revelation, something gets unveiled

Question 26

Kosher

Answer 26

Correct

Question 27

Eshet Chayil

Answer 27

Woman of Valor

Question 28

Tikkun Olam

Answer 28

Healing of the world

Question 29

Liturgy

Answer 29

work of the people

Question 30

“Are you not like the Ethiopians to me, O people of Israel?” says the Lord. “Did I note bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?”

Answer 30

Amos 9:7
Speaker is Amos
Amos says that God is saying he did deliver Israel from slavery but also many other nations, so Israel should not think they are special

Question 31

“Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into excile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”

Answer 31

Jeremiah 2:28
speaker is Jeremiah
Jeremiah says that God says “i have organized your defeat so in the land of welfare you will find your welfare”

Question 32

Have you not seen a false vision or uttered a lying divination, when you have said, “Says the Lord,” even though I did not speak?

Answer 32

Ezekiel 13:7
Speaker is Ezekiel
Ezekiel is called by God to prophesy against other prophets (calling them out because they were not sent by God)

Question 33

He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Answer 33

Isaiah 2:4
Isaiah is a prophet.. there will be no more war because God will take care of the issues
- Sister Megan Rice uses this text in her actions against warfare.

Question 34

Look at the proud! Their spirit is not right in them, but the righteous live by their faith. Moreover, wealth is treacherous; the arrogant do not endure. They open their throats wide as Sheol; like Death they have enough. They gather all nations for themselves and collect all peoples as their own.

Answer 34

Habakkuk 2:4
Speaker is Habakkuk
he is saying that those who are wealthy are not living correctly… they should be living by faith.

Question 35

So they read from the book, from the law of God, with interpretation. They gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading

Answer 35

Nehemiah 8:8
Speaker is Ezra
Ezra and the elders are reading the word of god together to get a better understanding of the Bible

Question 36

Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an overflowing stream.

Answer 36

Amos 5:23
Speaker is Amos
Amos is saying that God hates singing but not doing the things; do what you are singing about.

Question 37

He has told you, O mortal what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Answer 37

Micah 6:8

God wants people to live this way; to act justly, to be kind, and to be humble

Question 38

The stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth

Answer 38

Daniel 2:35

Daniel is interpreting a dream, at the end of the dream, a rock falls and ruins the city. (basically a warning)