Test 1

Question 1

List the 4 steps in the interpretive Journey and their corresponding question.

Answer 1

Step 1: Grasp the text in their town. What did the text mean to the original audience?
Step 2: Measure the width of the river to cross. What are the differences between the Biblical audience and you?
Step 3: Cross the principlizing bridge. What is the theological principle in the text?
Step 4: Grasp the text in our town. How should individuals today apply the theological principle to their lives?

Question 2

Identify the 4 Theories of Inspiration of the Bible.

Answer 2

Neo-orthodox theory: asserts the Bible is a witness to the word of God and contains error and not Holy spirit influenced.
Limited Inspiration theory: holds that God inspired the thoughts of the Biblical writers but not necessarily the words themselves. believes error can occur.
Dictation Theory- suggests that God simply dictated the Bible to Human scribes.
Plenary Verbal Inspiration Theory- asserts that the Holy Spirit interacted with human writers to produce the Bible

Question 3

List and define the 3 Worlds of the Bible.

Answer 3

1. Historical- it is the study of the world and culture around the Bible when it was being written.
2. Literary World- study of the text itself. the worlds created within the pages of the Bible.
   Contemporary World-How does the text relates to us in modern time.

Question 4

Define the word Bible.

Answer 4

comes from the Greek word biblia which translates to “the books”

Question 5

What do the letters T, N, and K stand for what in the Tanak?

Answer 5

Torah
Neviim
Ketuvim

Question 6

What is the Tanak?

Answer 6

Jewish Bible

Question 7

Define the word Pentateuch.

Answer 7

Greek for first five books of the Bible

Question 8

Define the word Torah

Answer 8

Law

Question 9

list the 5 books of the Bible that compose the Torah.

Answer 9

Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus 
Numbers 
Deuteronomy

Question 10

What other term is more often used in academic settings in place of the word Torah?

Answer 10

Pentateuch

Question 11

What are the two views of authorship concerning the Torah?

Answer 11

JEPD Theory (Documentary Hypothesis)
Mosaic Authorship

Question 12

What do the letters JEDP stand for?

Answer 12

J- Yahwist
E- Elohist
D- Deuteronomist
P-Priestly Writer

Question 13

What are the 3 questions you must ask in order to determine a person’s worldview?

Answer 13

Where did we come from?
What went wrong?
How do we fix it?

Question 14

What is the Hebrew word that is translated as the word day in the creation story of Genesis?

Answer 14

yom

Question 15

What does the word Genesis mean?

Answer 15

Beginning

Question 16

The book of Genesis was written to present the beginnings of everything except what?

Answer 16

God

Question 17

List 4 things that the book of Genesis presents the beginning of.

Answer 17

Language
Man
Sin
Marriage
Sabbath

Question 18

Give the outline for the book of Genesis; include chapters and the material that those chapters present in your answer.

Answer 18

Genesis 1-11 = 4 events: Creation, Fall, Flood, Nations

Genesis 12-50 = 4 people: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph