OT Midterm Flashcards
According to class Material, what is the objective of the Hebrew Bible
The reader to know God better
The English term ‘Old Testament” indicates
Covenant
How is the Bible different from other literature
It is not what readers want to hear
One of the main principles of biblical interpretation is:
Allow the text to speak for itself
The four natural geographical regions of the land of Israel (north-south), beginning on the west and moving east are:
Coastal Plain, Central Hills, The Jordan Rift, Transjordan Platue
The prophet Ezekiel’s description of the Phoenician commerce in the first Millenium BC confirms the strategic geographical location of this ancient land as:
Bridge between Africa and Eurasia
The two international highways that passed through territory controlled by Israel were:
“The way of the Sea” and “the way of the Kings”
The architects for the foundations of Mesopotamian culture (to the time of the Patriarchs 2900-2000 BC) were:
Sumerians from southern Mesopotamia
Hammurabi the Amorite, who established the first dynasty of Babylon is most widely known for:
His collection of 282 laws predating Moses by at least 300 years
What is the theological significance of the Land of Canaan in the Hebrew Bible
It was a major component in God’s covenant promise to Abraham
The Canaan that Abraham entered was dominated, much like Mesopotamia, by:
Scattered city-states
Some Scholars are inclined to place the emigration of the Israelites to Egypt sometime during the decline of the Thirteen dynasty of Pharaohs with the:
Hyksos, Semitic people, who settled in the delta region
The Empire of inns David and Solomon extended from 1000 - 900 BC during the:
Iron Age II
The reason for the rise of the Israelite monarchy in the tenth-century:
Decline of international politics, no major controlling power, a power vacuum
What stance should we take when archeology data appears to conflict with biblical record?
Change the interpretation
Which statement from the limitations of archeology for the Bible is true:
Only a fraction of any site is excavated
The man who invented movable type for the printing press and who printed a copy of the Vulgate as the first major book on his press was:
Johannes Gutenburg
The significance of the Bible manuscripts discovered in the Dead Sea in 1946 by a Bedouin shepherd is:
They increased credibility of the Masoretic text of the Bible
Who were the Masoretes?
Jewish scholars who added vowels, punctuation marks and verse divisions in the Hebrew Bible
Most of the Pentateuch is made up of which literary type:
Prose Narrative
The goal of Textual Criticism is:
To establish or restore the written text of the Hebrew Bible to the original state
Unlike the New Testament Bible, the Hebrew Bible had several important criteria to the selection of books for the Hebrew Bible Canon
Divine inspiration; authorship; content; use of the book
Hebrew Bible Apocrypha books means
Hidden books
Most of the documents which come from ancient Mesopotamia and which throw light on the Bible were written on:
Clay Tablets
The Hebrew. Bible Pseudepigrapha Books means:
Extra canónicas Jewish Books written under a pen name
This collection is rich of literary genres (types), has diverse literary types, and enhances the artistic nature and the theological themes unifying the collection. the book is:
Pentateuch
Identify the Book of the Torah: Book of beginnings and the beginning of God’s redemptive plan:
Genesis
The “fixed” order of the books in the Hebrew Biblical Canon was probably due to the use of a new format called a:
Codex
The unifying theological theme of the Torah according to Hill and Walton is:
The Covenant promise God made with Abraham
These Biblical personalities Abel - Adam - Ephraim -Ham - Laban are not in order. Which of the following answers displays the correct chronological order from the oldest to the most recent.
Adam, Abel, Ham, Laban, Ephraim
