Swindle BOLD exam 2

What is the Pentateuch?

Pentateuch is the Greek name for the first five book of the Old Testament

Who is typically recognized as the author of this material?

the authorship of these books is ascribed to Moses

What is the Documentary Hypothesis, and who is responsible for it?

it holds that that pentateuch was complied at a late date from four separate sources

Who was responsible for Documentary Hypothesis?

Julius Wellhausen

What does Genesis mean?

Origin, birth, beginning
- it is the book of beginnings
- the world, the human race, the sin, and the redemption

What is the primeval history?

The History of the World

What is the patriarchal history?

The History of Israel

What is toledoth?

Toledoth means generations
- it is the ten separate generational units in Genesis

Have a general idea of the "firsts" of Genesis?

Origin stories

Be able to discuss the connection between the Bible and science as was discussed in lecture in Walton video. What was Walton's main contention?

- no scientific revelation
- everyone in the ancient world thought it was a disk
- everything was understandable in the ancient context if with consists of science

What does 'bara' mean?

created

How does the Genesis account of creation differ from other ancient accounts?

Genesis account has one God with a divine purpose, not violent
- Other accounts are about many gods, self-serving, and are violent

Explain the structure of creation

- the account is divided into six days, with the creation of the first three days corresponding to the creation of the last three days

Explain what it means hat humans are created in the image of God?

- humans have a royal status that gives them authority to rule on earth as his vice-regents
- humans have priestly status that allows them to live in God's presences and attended his sanctuary
- to be made in God's image mean that we are God's offspring

Explain God's plan for marriage as revealed in Genesis 2

Marriage is to form new families
- God intended for humans to leave home and create new families where they are committed to each other
- sex bonds those to create new families.. man shall become one flesh

What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil... what does it represent?

- representation of the choice we have between following God or choosing autonomy

In what areas does the serpent tempt Eve?

Lush of the flesh
Lust of the eyes
Pride of life

What are the consequences of the humans' actions?

- a world full of violence
- human sin has cosmic consequences

What was the purpose of the flood?

- God's response to humanities rebellion
- it was not to answer the problem of sin

What is covenant?

Covenant is know as the Divine Commitment

What is Genesis 10?

the geneology of chapter 10 is known a the "TABLE OF NATIONS"

How does the tower of Babel represent the pinnacle of human rebellion?

- people turning away from God
- represents the open rebellion to the commands of God

What did God want for the people?

- God wanted the people to multiple and fill the earth

What did they want for themselves?

- to build up a single city and make themselves look great

What was the tower?

The tower was a ziggurat

Why did God choose abram and his family?

he choose them so that in them all families on earth could be blessed
- it was an act of love and grace

what did he intend to accomplish by his choice?

So that in them, all families on the earth could be blessed

What were the three covenant promises made by God to Abram?

- land
- descendants
- blessing

What does it mean to "cut a covenant?"

to make/ establish a covenant (an agreement)

What did circumcision signify?

covenant relationship with God
- CIRCUMCISION WAS A SIGN OF THE OLD COVENANT AND BAPTISM IS A SIGN OF THE NEW COVENANT

What is the present-day Christian's relationship to Abraham and his descendants?

those who live by faith indeed, descendants of Abraham

Who was God's chosen leader to bring the Israelites out of Egypt?

Moses

How did he protest God's call?

he flees midein

What TWO things did God accomplish in Exodus?

- he revealed himself
- redeemed his people

List the ten plagues?

1. water to blood
2. frogs
3. Gnats
4. Flies
5. Death of Livestock
6. Boils
7. Hail
8. Locusts
9. Darkness
10. Death of First Born

What was the theological significance of the exodus?

God saves

What was the Passover? What were its elements?

God commanded the Hebrews to memorialize the event of their deliverance from Egyptian slavery... remembrance of the ten pleagues

How does the Christian Lord's Supper compare with the Hebrew Passover?

Just as the Passover commemorated God's great saving act for the Israelites, the Lord's Supper- the New testament Passover- commemorates God's saving act in jesus

What two dates are typically put forth for the exodus?

1440 B.C.- the early date
1290 B.C.- the late date

About what kinds of things did the people complain in the wilderness?

- grumbling and crossing of the Red/Reed Sea
- grumbling and the provision of water
- grumbling and the provision of food
- the defeat of Amalek

What did God use to feed the Israelites in the wilderness?

Manna

How did God lead the Israelites in the wilderness?

by pillar of cloud by day; pillar of fire by night

At what mountain did God reveal his law to the people?

Sinai

What is a theophany?

- a visible manifestation to humankind of God or a god.

List the Ten Commandments

1. No other Gods
2. No idols
3. Dont misuse my name
4. honor my holy days
5. honor your father and mother
6. no murder
7. no adultery
8. no stealing
9. no lying
10. no coveting

What is their structure?

- 1-4 address's the people's relationship to God
- 6-10 address's the people's relationship to eachother

What is the Ancient Near Eastern Suzerainty/Vassal Treaty? What are its components?

- Introduction of Speaker
- Historical prologue
- Stipulations
- Statement Concerning Document
- Witnesses
- Curses and Blessings

Are God's people still responsible for observing the Ten Commandments today?

- Yes and No
- We are not saved by law-keeping

What was the Tabernacle?

Was a portable tent or sanctuary used by Israel as a place of worship prior to the Temple

What were it's furnishings, and where were they located?

- Ark of the Covenant: most holy place
- Altar of incense and table of showbread: holy place
- alter of burnt offering
- bronze laver
- golden lamp stand

What is typology? Be familiar with the typology of the tabernacle and the Ark

The study of spiritual correspondences between persons, events, and things... within the historical framework of the divine revelation of the bible

What was the Ark of the Covenant? What did it represent? What was kept inside it?

- Israelites' most scared cultic object
- It represented God's throne or chariot, upon which he was believed to sit between the wings of the cherubim
- What was kept inside? the ten commandments, a golden pot of manna, arrons rod

Be familiar with Exodus 34:6-7

The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, " The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.

what does exodus 34:6-7 tell us about God?

Historian prologue matching where the ten commandments are from