Test 3

Question 1

Basic Elements of Hebrew poetry

Answer 1

Meter, PARALLELISM, chiasm, acrostics

Question 2

Why is the book of Job important?

Answer 2

It examines the question of why good people suffer

Question 3

8.

Answer 3

Job is important because it looks at why good people sometimes suffer

Question 4

9.

Answer 4

the book of psalms has given us many songs from ancient Israel

Question 5

10.

Answer 5

Proverbs provides us with practical guidelines for living

Question 6

11.

Answer 6

Ecclesiastes explores the meaning of life.

Question 7

12.

Answer 7

Song of Songs focuses on the joy of romantic love.

Question 8

what was unique about hebrew wisdom literature when compared with other ancient wisdom literature?

Answer 8

Because it had a thoroughly monotheistic view, which was very rare

Question 9

Define Theodicy

Answer 9

the attempt to justify God’s ways in the world

Question 10

Where did Job’s three friends place the blame for his calamity.

Answer 10

They continue to place the blame on Job.

Question 11

Central message of Job as it is implied in the hymn to wisdom

Answer 11

Wisdom belongs ultimately to God, and all human attempts to grasp it or contain it are doomed to failure.

Question 12

What was Job’s main contention in the argument he presented?

Answer 12

He claimed that his punishment and suffering far exceeded his guilt.

Question 13

When the Lord challenged Job what was Job’s response?

Answer 13

He was silent, could not even speak to the lord.

Question 14

Hymn’s

Answer 14

songs of praise and thanksgiving to God for who he is and what he has done

Question 15

Penitential

Answer 15

confess sorrow for sin appeal to God for grace and forgiveness

Question 16

Wisdom

Answer 16

General observations on life, especially God and our relationship to him

Question 17

Royal

Answer 17

Focus on the king as a son of David and as God’s chosen man to rule his people

Question 18

Messianic

Answer 18

Describe some aspect of the Messiah’s person or ministry

Question 19

Imprecatory

Answer 19

call for God’s judgement against God’s enemies and/or his peoples enemies

Question 20

Lament

Answer 20

Lament one’s condition’ usually include statement of lament, statement of trust in God and affirmation of praise to him

Question 21

what does the textbook say proverbs teach about knowledge

Answer 21

that it is primarily relational

Question 22

What was the teacher’s purpose in writing Ecclesiastes?

Answer 22

So that people don’t make the same mistakes he did, and that life without God is meaningless

Question 23

What does Ecclesiastes teach is the only hope of enduring the present?

Answer 23

To obey God, and his commandments.

Question 24

What is the main theme of Song of Song’s?

Answer 24

To show what a healthy erotic sexual relationship with one’s spouse could be like.