Lesson 1 - 3 Flashcards
Jesus usually communicated great theological truths by?
Telling stories (1.1)
According to the author, the Bible is a ?
Collection of stories of God’s saving deeds. (1.1)
The role of the Holy Spirit in a dynamic reading of the biblical text is to ?
Guide the believer into correct application. (1.2)
The tighter we remain connected to the biblical story, the greater will be our ?
Confidence and security in our relationship to Christ. (1.2)
The Greek translation of the Old Testament is called?
Septuagint (1.3)
What is the word Pentateuch ? (BONUS)
It is the Greek word for “five books”. the Pentateuch (which Jews call the Torah) includes the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
What is the word Vulgate ? (BONUS)
The Latin translation of the Old Testament.
What is the word Hagiographa ? (BONUS)
It’s a Greek word meaning “sacred writings”
(referring to the third and last part of the Hebrew Bible including the books Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah (often considered the same book), Chronicles)
The Latin translation of the Old Testament ?
Vulgate (1.3)
What is the word Septuagint ? (BONUS)
The Greek name for the Old Testament
The one element God gave humankind but not other created creatures is ?
His spirit - animating life-force (1.4)
The root cause of sinfulness in the story of the fall is ?
Human self-will (1.4)
Cain was marked in some way to ?
Protect him from the same fate as Abel. (1.5)
The flood story begins with ?
God’s grief. (1.5)
The historical period many scholars use to describe genesis 12-50 is ?
Patriarchal. (2.1)
The theme of genesis 12-50 is ?
Promise and fulfillment. (2.1)
In the covenant-making ceremony in genesis 15, the person(s) who walked between the pieces of sacrificial animals was (were) ?
God alone. (2.1)
God used Jacob’s conflicts to ?
Reveal that Jacob valued the blessing more than Esau. (2.2)
Esau’s descendants became the nation of ?
Edom. (2.2)
Although it might seem that God was absent, Jacob learned a key points that ?
God was powerfully present. (2.2)
Joseph’s brothers despised his dreams because ?
They were represented as his servants, and he was younger than them. (2.3)
The real hero in Joseph’s narrative is ?
God. (2.3)
The focus of God dealing with Abrahams descendants in Egypt is to ?
Move the plan of salvation from one family forward to one nation forward. (3.1)
To help him control the number of Hebrew males in Egypt, the pharaoh enlisted the
Midwives. (3.1)
