Quiz 3 (class 8-12)

Question 1

Old Testament Timeline

Answer 1

From Creation-Exodus- 1656+ yrs
Abraham- 2166 BC
Isaac- 2066 BC
Jacob – 2006 BC
SOJOURN TO EGYPT – 1876 BC
EXODUS – 1446 BC
CONQUEST – 1406 BC
Kings- 1051
TEMPLE – 966 BC
EXILES- between 721-587
JUDAH RETURNS- 539
REBUILD WALLS- 444

Question 2

Hammurabi’s Code Outline

Answer 2

-PROLOGUE [Hammurabi recounted his call to extend justice to his realm]
-LAWS [this most important section contains 282 separate rulings, each taking several lines.]
-EPILOGUE [The title, and Hammurabi’s role as the king who brought justice repeated]
-BLESSINGS & CURSES [there were about 110 lines of blessings on the kings who keep the laws, followed by about 270 lines of curses on the King, his descendants, land, warriors, people and nation, if they disregarded the laws.]

Question 3

2 Law Forms of Hammurabi

Answer 3

Apodictic (in which an action is opposed)
Casuistic (if _____ then _____)

Question 4

Jewish Calendar Year & Festivals

Answer 4

(1)NISAN (Mar/Apr) - flax harvest, spring, Passover (15), begins to dry
(2)IYAR (Apr/May) - Firstfruits (barley), barley harvest, end of month- wheat harvest
(3)SIVAN (May/Jun)- Weeks/Pentecost (harvest), vine tending
(4)TAMMUZ (Jun/Jul)- vine tending, hot dry summer
(5)AV (Jul/Aug)- summer fruits ripen
(6)ELUL (Aug/Sept)- Grape harvest, early rains, new agricultural year, feast of trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)
(7)TISHRI (Sept/Oct)- Fig harvest, Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) Olive harvest, release of slaves in 7th yr
(8)CHESHVAN (Oct/Nov)- Feast of booths, fruit harvest, ploughing, first rains, grain planting
(9)KISLEV (Nov/Dec)- Grain planting, WET SEASON
(10)TEVET (Dec/Jan)- WET SEASON
(11)SHEVAT (Jan/Feb)- WET SEASON Grain Cereals Grow
(12)ADAR (Feb/Mar)-Purim (14-15) Latter Rains

Question 5

Important Chapters

Answer 5

Lev 23: Intro to feasts
Lev 26: blessings for obedience: 3-13
Warning curses for disobedience: 14-22
Curses of Destruction : 23-35
Curses in Exile: 36-39
Restoration: 40-45
Num. 7: 12 Days of Offering for the dedication of the Tabernacle (uses vav consecutive)
Num 8: Dedicating the Levites
Num 9: celebrating Passover in first or second month & following the cloud in the wilderness
Num 10: signals from the silver trumpet for assembling, setting out, going to battle, and offerings at feasts
Num 11: Complaining about meat
Num 12: Miriam & Aaron speak against Moses (see Heb 3)
Num 13: 12 Spies sent out
Num 14: Refusal to trust God
Num 16-17: Korah Rebellion
Num 18: Duties & Offerings for Priests
Num 19: Water for Cleansing
Num 20: Moses hits the rock in the wilderness of Zin & Aaron dies at Mount Hor)
Num 32: Ruben, Gad, and half tribe of Manasseh, settle East of Jordan

Question 6

Feast/Holidays (7)

Answer 6

Sabbath
Passover
Firstfruits
Feast of Weeks/Pentecost
Feast of Trumpets
Day of Atonement
Feast of Booths/Shelters
*remember there is much typology within the Holy Days
** 10th day is important in Passover, Yom Kippur & Shelters

Question 7

Important People

Answer 7

Kohath- priestly line descends [levite clans: Gershon, Kohath, Merari]
Gershon:
Kohath:
Merari:
Eliezar- eternal priestly line descends
Nahshon- tribal leader of Judahites, and ancestor of Christ (?)

Question 8

Map Sites to Review

Answer 8

Kadesh-Barnea
Wilderness of Zin
Wilderness of Paran
Wilderness of Sin
Mount Hor (where Aaron was buried)
Edom
Moab
Ammon& amman
Arad (attacked by the king of Arad)
Hormah (Canaanites handed over to Israel)