Unit Quiz 3 Flashcards
Hexateuch
- 1st 6 books of the Bible
- Includes first 5 and Joshua
- Joshua buried in homeland or wouldn’t have rest
Deborah’s Song
- Judges 5
- Older song within narrative (Canaanite similarities)
- Similar to Exo 14 and 15
Samuel
- Mother= Hannah (Barren)
- Last judge and 1st prophet
- Advisor to 1st king of Israel
Magnificat
- Song Mary sings in response to being pregnant
- Contains prophecy about Jesus
- Similar to Hannah’s song
- Themes= reversal of fortune, God’s victorious faithfulness
Judges vs Samuel view of monarchy
- Sam: King is solely in charge= bad, puts sons in military, daughters as wife
- Judges: Without a king, everyone does what they think is right
Absalom
- Sets up mini kingdom cuz mad a David
- *Shows how sword never departs the house
- Beautiful, uses charisma to capture people
- Tries to overtake his fathers throne
- Established in Hebron like dad
- Tries to kill David, he flees
- Allies unite against Absalom to kill him (David’s choice)
David at Hebron
- 2 Sam
- David anointed king in Hebron
- Connects Hebron to Genesis 23 and 23
- Connects David to origins of Israel (David to Abraham)
- Example of David’s consolidation of power
David at Jerusalem
- 2 Sam
- Anointed king in Jerusalem
- Example of Davids consolidation of power
Mt. Gilboa
- Place of Sauls death in 2 Sam
- Etiology for why location is dry
- David’s poem= place should remain dry
David’s 2 meetings with Saul
- David= great musician, soothes Saul’s torment from evil spirit of God
- David kills Goliath, seen as great warrior
Messiah
-“One who is anointed” in Hebrew
Davidic Covenant
- 2 Sam
- Foundation of many messianic ideas
- “I will be your father and you will be my son”– adoption
- “I will give u a perpetual covenant”
- God promises that David will have a descendant to rule Israel
Bathsheba
- Seen naked by David, they sleep together
- Husband is killed by David, they get married
- First son dies, 2nd son= Solomon
Solomon
- Son of David and Bathsheba
- Final king of Israel
Uriah
- Husband of Bathsheba
- Killed by David in battle
- refuses to sleep with wife while friends r at war
- Hittite= positive portrayal
Nathan
- David’s prophet
- Shows proper relationship between king-prophet
- Serves as king’s conscience
Deborah
- Distinctive narrative because mentions female heroines
- Female leader who responded to cry of the people
- Lord sends leader to deliver them
- Introduction and her role described in same way as male
Joshua
- Moses death= transition of leadership
- Follows mantra of DrH
- Fulfillment of promises to ancestors and Moses by following Moses’ law
Rehab
- Model convert bcuz woman and prostitute
- First convert in DrH
- Significant bcuz expands what it means to be an Israelite– no longer need to be of lineage of Abraham and Isaac, just profess loyalty to God
- 1 of 4 women in genealogy of Jesus
Shechem Covenant
- Joshua 24
- Proof of Hexateuch
- Bones of Joseph moved from Egypt and buried there
- Land bought from children of Hamor, father of Shechem
- Land= inheritance of descendants of Joseph
Adonijah
- Son of David and Haggith
- Wanted to be king over Solomon and Absalom
- Put to death
1 Kgs Covenant
- Same Davidic covenant but CONDITIONAL
- Have to be faithful to God and law of Moses
- Written after 2 Sam 7 (after exile)
- God allowed land to be captured because disobeyed
David’s death
- Sends out a Hitlist of people he wants killed
- Gets a virgin to keep him warm, doesn’t have sex with her because so weak (bad portrayal)
- Indictment of David as king
- symbol of nations strength, he is weak
Appearances of David
- 1 Sam= before king
- 2 Sam= king
- 1 Kgs= David dies
Seeds of Solomon’s demise
- Reasons his kingdom should fall
- Marries a foreign woman= bad
- Offering sacrifices in random places
Prayer from/for exile
- Answer to theodicy
- How do u explain evil if God is good and all powerful?
- No one is perfect, allows God tot judge
Famous Passages of kings
- Solomon’s dream of God
- Baby division
Northern Kingdom
- “Israel”
- Under Jeroboam’s control
- Establishes Dan and Bethel as cultic center
- 10/12 tribes
Southern Kingdom
- “Judah”
- Rehoboam’s control
- 2/12 tribes
Ahab and Jezebel
-Most infamous royal couple in Israelite history
Elijah
- Greatest prophet in Israelite tradition
- Battles with prophets of Ba’al
- Disputes with Ahab and Jezebel
- Directly challenges Ba’al cult (1 Kgs)
- Archetype for portrayal of John the Baptist and Jesus
Elisha
- Elijah’s successor
- Becomes next great prophet in nation’s history
Hesed
- Hebrew
- Quality of life of those who know God
Joshua
- Rahab as model convert
- Moses’ death
Judges
- Death of Joshua
- Deborah’s song
- Jael
1 Samuel
- Birth in Samuel
- Hannah
- Penninah
- Eli and bad sons
- Samuel’s farwell
- David before king
- Saul’s death= suicide
2 Samuel
- Saul’s death= murdered by Amalekite
- Mt Gilboa
- David as king
- Davidic covenant is unconditional
- Bathsheba and Uriah
- Absalom
1 Kings
- Death of David
- Adonijah
- Solomon
- Conditional covenant
- North and South kingdom
- Ahab-Jezebel
- Elijah
- Elisha
70 CE
- 2nd temple destroyed by romans
Book of Signs
- Chapters 1-12 of John
- 95 CE
- Wedding of Cana
- Realized eschatology
- Christ as “word”
- Cleansing of the temple
- “For God so loved the world that he gave his beloved son”
- Moses connected to Jesus
Adele Reinhartz
- The Gospel of John and the Parting of the Ways
- Addresses anti-semetism in the Bible
- Gospel of John written at time when Jewish and Christian community were splitting over identity of Jesus
Rapture
- When Christ returns, we don’t go straight to Heaven
- Suspended into air
- Those who already died have oppertunity to go to Heaven
- Always be ready!!!
Inclusio
- When something comes full circle
- Example: Genesis to revelation –> world is clean and no sin, returns this way after rapture
Book of Glory
- Chapters 13-21 of John
- 95 CE
- Jesus washes disciples feet
- Satan enters Judas
- Crucifixition= glorification of father and Jesus
- Dualism
- Lord’s prayer
Paul
- Drags women and children to death when persecuting the Church
- Most dramatic Christian convert
- Eventually becomes apostle?
- Wrote galatians,
Gamaliel
-Pharisee who makes an argument that something of human origin will fail so leave christians alone
Soteriology
-What is required to be part of Jesus’ community
Realized Eschatology
- The end of time is right now
- Judgement is the direct result
Dualism
- Black and white perspective of Jesus’ followers vs others
- Light v dark
Pharisee
-Christian Pharisees= circumcision required
Pedagogos
- Law= teacher, disciplinarian
- We need to be ready for faith in Christ
- Law has limited good
Philemon
- Gets letter written by Paul about Onesimus
- Written from prison to appeal on behalf of Onesimus
- Persuasive language
- Written to church in someone’s home
- Paul met Onesimus in prison, converted him to Christianity
- Used for pro and anti slavery
Apocalypse/ Apocalyptic literature
- Revelation
- Attributed to John
- Michael fights serpent (Satan)
- Ends with perfect existence in Jerusalem
- God eliminates unclean
- Survivors= Lamb’s Book of Life
Jerusalem Council
- 50 CE
- Acts 15
- Requirements for Church membership
- Debates w/in Christian community
- Conclusion: circumcision is not required
Theophilus
- Connects Luke and Acts
- Common addressee
Gloss
- Interpretive comment in John 6
- “I am” statement
Peter’s Confession John
- Jesus= Holy one of God
- Judas= betrayer
Gospel of John Garden, Arrest, Crucifixtion
- Peter cuts off slave’s ear (Malchus)
- Isn’t asking to give cup back
- Soldiers fall to ground when Jesus speaks (“I am he”)
- Last words= “It is done”
- Blood and water flow out of side