CHR 105 Review

Ecclesiastes is best known by what repeated phrase?

Everything is vanity

Ecclesiastes focuses on

the meaning of life

What leads to wisdom

the fear of the Lord

Wisdom is a theological concept that grows out of knowing who God is and who I am, making wise choices, comes from fear of the Lord

All of the above

Psalms is related to _____ (person), and Proverbs is related to _____.

Psalms = David, Proverbs = Solomon

Image of Jesus in Psalm 110 as both priest and king

Melchizedek

Song of Solomon is NOT an image of Christ and the church

TRUE

Which is NOT a type of parallelism? Synonymous, Antithetical, Synthetic, Apathetic

Apatheism/Apathetic

Focus of Psalm 1-2

key to blessedness

Psalm structure similar to the Torah, divided into 5 books

TRUE

Ecclesiastes author is

Qoheleth

Song of Solomon purpose

makes an argument for sex within a covenant marriage relationship

Wisdom in Proverbs is personified as…

a woman

Psalms of lament found infrequently in the Psalms

FALSE

Main theological theme in the prophets is

Covenant

Prophets aim to point people to what two things?

Pointing people back to God’s covenant relationship with them and pointing forward to the new covenant in Jesus

3 types of prophets

pre-exilic, exilic, post-exilic

Prophets DURING the exile

Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel

POST-exile Prophets

Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

was a Jewish exile in Babylon and Persia, wrote concerning God’s sovereignty over the nations and over history, prophesies over a Messianic son of man

Daniel

Had a vision of God’s glory leaving the temple

Ezekiel

Prophetic books do not contain poetry

FALSE

Allegory Questions

always FALSE

wrote an extended dialogue with God where he questioned why God would use the evil nation of Babylon to judge his people

Habakkuk

is a contemporary of Zechariah, preaches and inspires the rebuilding of the temple in the post-exile

Haggai

commanded by God to marry a prostitute to illustrate Israel’s infidelity

Hosea

speaks of the Messiah as the suffering servant

Isaiah

prophesied in Babylon during the exile, known as the weeping prophet, wrote Lamentations

Jeremiah

Lamentations is an acrostic poem, meaning it uses every letter of the Hebrew alphabet

TRUE

flees from God and proclaims a message of judgement against the capital of Assyria (Nineveh)

Jonah

name means “my messenger,” wrote the last prophetic book of the OT

Malachi

is presented from the OT as a paradigm and model for all future prophets

Moses

Primary role of the OT prophet

to point backwards to the old covenant/God’s covenant relationship with Israel and to point forward to the new covenant

Difference between true and false prophet

True prophets told the truth, false prophets told false messages

Were there more true prophets or false prophets?

false prophets

True prophets were not thought very well of, the false prophets were more popular than the true prophets

TRUE

Difference between major and minor prophets

Major prophets wrote more

Gospels are officially anonymous

TRUE

To understand the gospels, it’s important to know a working knowledge of the culture of Galilee/Judea and a flexible outline of Jesus’ life

answer = all of the above

This gospel is known for the “I am” statements

John

This gospel declares the Word became flesh and dwelt among us

John

Which gospel was written the earliest?

Mark

Which is known as the hurry up gospel because of repeated use of “immediately”

Mark

Which gospel is NOT a Synoptic gospel?

John

Which gospel was written so Theopolus might have certainty regarding Jesus

Luke

Who wrote the book of Acts?

Luke (wrote it also to Theopolus)

What is typology?

figures and symbols from the OT used to understand the gospel/foreshadow Jesus in the NT

Who is the “apostle to the Gentiles?”

Paul

What is the guiding question in Acts?

How does Jesus fulfill his purpose from the right hand of the father?

Distinctive aspect of Luke’s theology

Both salvation history and the work of the Holy Spirit

What is Luke’s idiom?

necessary language

Paul was born a Roman citizen

TRUE

Paul was motivated after/by his Damascus Road experience to declare the gospel

TRUE

a Jewish holiday that became pivotal in Acts to show the arrival of the Holy Spirit and the beginning of the church’s mission

Pentecost

Who were the main two characters in Acts?

Peter and Paul

Who had a public spat/disagreement with Paul that’s described in Galatians?

Peter

3 types of rhetoric

Deliberative, Forensic, Epideictic

Speeches recorded in Luke were not said by Luke, but rather he copied them

TRUE

Who uses “we language” as a way of showing his authorship/introducing himself

Luke

Acts has a typical rhetorical structure

TRUE

Who does Paul use to illustrate the concept of justification by faith?

Abraham

Paul’s letters were written to individuals AND to churches

TRUE

Which is NOT a strand that lies beneath the surface of Paul’s letters?

Jesus as a wise sage

Which early church had sexual immorality, factions/divisions, and frequently criticized Paul’s apostleship?

Corinth

Which early church struggled with false teachers preaching a counterfeit gospel that required faith and a law observant life?

Galatians

What was Paul’s 1st letter?

Galatians

What was Paul’s last letter?

2 Timothy

What was the most important historical feature of Paul’s letters?

the historical situation of the recipients/the crisis

Common theological phrase used by Paul

In Christ

What were 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus called? (____ Epistles)

Pastoral Epistles

Paul sees Jesus’ Christology as Jesus and Yahweh, Jesus and David, Jesus and the High Priest

answer = ALL OF THE ABOVE

Who does Paul write a letter to to encourage a slaveowner to accept back a runaway slave named Onesimus?

Philemon

What conjunction does Paul use a lot?

Therefore

Paul’s letters have a typical structure like a letter

TRUE

Mosaic Law plays a key role in Paul’s use of the OT

TRUE

Paul desires readers to respond by imitating him as he imitates Christ

TRUE

Paul commonly uses the doctrine of justification

TRUE

What genre is the book of Hebrews?

A sermon

Who were the 2 half-brothers of Jesus?

James and Jude

Which 2 people seem to disagree on the issue of justification by faith but they don’t actually disagree?

James and Paul

Thesis of Jude

just as Jesus delivered Israel from Egypt, He will also deliver us

Purpose of 1 Peter

encourage believers during persecution

Main theological truth of Revelation

God’s sovereignty over evil

Peter compares Christians to…

Israelites wandering in the wilderness as sojourners

According to Paul, before Christ all humans are…

enemies of God

In Hebrews, Jesus is superior because…

He is without sin

Jesus is superior to everything

TRUE

Major OT theme emphasized in James is…

Wisdom