Old Testament Midterm Flashcards
What does God do on the seventh day of creation?
Rest
What does God say about men and women in Genesis 1?
Created them in the image of God
The Apostle John deliberately wants you to connect Genesis 1 with his Gospel through his opening words. What is the phrase that appears in Genesis 1 and John 1?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
What ancient genre uses elaborate mythologies to describe the earliest events of prehistory?
Prehistoric
What language was the majority of the Old Testament written in?
Hebrew
What did the serpent say to tempt Eve to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
You become wiser, more like God
What is the covenant God makes with Noah?
maintain a relationship of creator and creation
According to Paul in Romans 5, what is the relationship between Adam and Jesus?
Paul was a believer
Per EOT, which of the following is NOT a significant region in the ancient near east?
Babylon
Choose ALL of the books that make up the Pentateuch/Torah.
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Which of the following are some of God’s covenant promises to Abraham?
Land, descendants will be , blessing redemption
In Romans 4, how does Paul prove that Abraham is justified by faith and not by works?
He believed
What two cities are destroyed by God’s judgment in spite of Abraham’s intercession?
Sodom and Gomorrah
Why does Genesis say that God considered Abraham righteous?
Righteousness. He believed in god for who he is not what he can do
According to Tim Keller in “The Story of the Bible,” what is the Bible’s basic plotline?
If you listen and believe in god it will be good,
Jacob is renamed Israel after an unusual encounter with God. What does “Israel” mean?
Wrestles with God
What is the name God reveals to Moses?
YHWH
Who is the Pharaoh in power during the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt?
Ramses
Passover is the most important Jewish festival. Where does the name come from?
In order to protect their first-born children, the Israelites marked their doors with lamb’s blood so the angel of death would pass over them.
Who was sold into slavery by his brothers?
Joseph
What is the fourth commandment that God gives to the Israelites at Mount Sinai?
Sabbath
According to Justin Whitmel Early in The Common Rule, what Sabbath is really about?
About trusting that god will take care of us
Exodus 25-40 includes many logistical instructions for the structure God fills with his presence at the end of Exodus. What is that structure called?
Tabernacle
What is the first idol the people of Israel make?
Golden Calf
In The Common Rule, Justin Whitmel Early quotes Abraham Heschel to explain the relationship between vocation and Sabbath. What does Heschel say?
“A man who works with his mind should sabbath with his hands, and a man who works with his hands
should Sabbath with his mind.”
According to Jesus in Matthew 12, who is Lord of the Sabbath?
Him
What role does Hebrews 8 ascribe to Jesus?
Preist
According to Preston Sprinkle, do the sexual laws of Leviticus 18 still apply to us today?
Yes
What important Jewish festival involves sacrificing one goat and sending a second goat off into the wilderness?
Day of Atonement Yom Kippur
When Jesus says “you shall love your neighbor as yourself,” what Old Testament book is he quoting?
Matthew
Who was the only woman to judge Israel?
Deborah
What is the reason God gives in Deuteronomy for making the Israelites his chosen people?
He loves them
What event from Numbers does Jesus reference in John 3?
Snake
According to Matthew 1, which Old Testament woman is related to Jesus?
Rahab
How does Ehud kill the king of Moab?
Ehud Left handed grabbed sword from right thigh stabbed him
What does CASKET stand for?
Creation
Abraham
Sinai
Kings
Exile
Temple
Creation & Fall
God making
Noahic
Promise it will not flood
Abrahamic
Promise Land,
Covenent of Circumcsision
Circumcision to start a new life
Ten Commandments
You shall have no other God’s before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images. …
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. …
Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. …
Honor your father and mother. …
Thou shalt not kill. …
Thou shalt not commit adultery. …
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shall not bear false witness.
Thou shall not covent
Mosaic covenant
rules to Israelites
United monarcy
Day 1
Light
Day 2
sky
Day 3
dry lands, seas, trees, plants
Day 4
the Sun, Moon and stars were created
Day 5
Birds & sea creatures
Day 6
animals that live on the land and finally humans,
