OT midterm

The Old Testament was originally divided into three sections called the Tanak. This is a Hebrew acronym standing for three types of literature. Which of the following is NOT part of the "Tanak"?

talmud

Who was the first church leader to refer to the Jewish Bible as the Old Testament?

tertullian

another name for “testament” ?

covenant

Second century church leader who rejected the Old Testament because, in his view, it did not reflect the God of the New Testament.

Marcion

According to Dr. Stephen Lennox, the Ten Commandments and 613 additional Old Testament laws reinforce two primary laws:

love god with your whole heart; love your neighbor as yourself

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus refers to the Hebrew Bible as having ____ sections.

three

According to Dr. Lennox, in order to understand how God interacts with the people of the Old Testament, we must understand the principle of "accommodation". This means...

god tolerates the limitations of culture

According to Lennox, approximately ninety percent of the Old Testament prophets' message was ...

for their contemporaries

the last boof of the tanak

chronicles

Dr. Lennox mentions "Four Safeguards" for Old Testament interpretation. Professor Helm summed these safeguards up with the phrase...

let scripture interpret scripture

the Hebrew word for human?

adam

A key concept in the creation account, as represented by The Garden.

gods blessing

the wounded victor in genesis 3 will ?

all of the above, crush the snake, defeat evil, bless and rescue humanity

gods promise to Abraham was to bless him and?

make his name great

god wished to illustrate his covenant to Abraham by having him…

attempt to count the of stars in the sky

The promise of the "wounded victor" finds further development when Jacob promotes one of his sons on his death bed. A future king will come from this son's line.

judah

Science is concerned with how things came into existence. The Bible is more concerned about identifying ...

who

creation ex nihilo?

out of nothing

imagoi dei is latin for?

in the image of God

one could describe genesis 1-3 as —— for the rest of scripture

determinative

The story of Abraham reveals the theme of the entire Old Testament. God's covenant to Abraham was a ...

promise of blessing

the Biblical creation story differs from the Mesopotamian creation story, the Enuma elish, by emphasizing ...

all of the above, monotheism, god had purpose in creating humankind, origin of creation

Genesis introduces the force of evil. Although the doctrine of Satan is undeveloped in the Old Testament, the writers perhaps were trying to avoid the cultural belief of the middle east in ...

dualism

abram’s name is changed to abraham

exalted father to “father of many”

jacob’s name is changed to israel which means?

trickster to “struggles with god”

Although Jacob ran from home as a result of his deceit and cunning, God meets him in the form of a dream at 

bethel, “house of God”

After destroying the household gods, Jacob returns to the place of his divine vision. One might say he has gone from ...

Bethel to El-Bethel, "house of God" to "God of the house"

Joseph can be described as an Old Testament "type" of Christ. Which of the following does NOT fit this description?

his dreams were rebuked by his father

It appears from Genesis 45 that Joseph had one time felt abandoned by God.

true

genesis 50:20 is a prime example of Gods?

sovereignty

Exodus continues the theme from Genesis that God wishes to use Abraham's family as a vehicle of ...

God’s blessing

The first Passover demonstrated to the Israelites that their first born could escape death by 

the blood of the lamb

The first section of Exodus (chapters 1-18) concludes with a song of praise entitled...

song of the sea

The second section of Exodus (chapters 19-40) could be summarized "If the Israelites obeyed God's laws they could become…

a kingdom of priests

The design of the tabernacle is reminiscent of the Garden of Eden. Through a covenant relationship, the Israelites can again ...

have access to God’s presence

The Book of Exodus ends with Moses unable to enter the tabernacle. This raises a question that will be the theme in Leviticus:

how can sinful people be reconciled to a holy God?

the meaning of "atonement”

covering

A law that is an unqualified, bold statement of general command ("thou shalt not").

apodictic

The laws of Leviticus can be classified in three categories. Which of the following does not fit the description of these laws?

absolute

The Sinai covenant represents a contract between two equal parties.

false

The Book of Numbers gets it's name from ...

The census recorded at the beginning of the book

The wilderness stories of Exodus and Numbers are retold by prophets, priests and even the New Testament apostles to remind God's people that although He will allow His people to "walk away", He is still ...

all of the above, just, faithful, angry

Moses was not allowed to enter the promised land because he _____ the rock at Meribah.

struck twice

The Feast of Tabernacles helped the Israelites ...

all of the above, express gratitude to god for the year harvest, remember gods provision in their wilderness wandering

The book of Leviticus gets its name from the priestly tribe of Levi.

true levi is true

the book of Deuteronomy summary-

reiterating the covenant

The passage in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 that begins with these words: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one."

the shema

The central part of Deuteronomy was possibly meant to ...

explain the ten commandments

Moses' call can be seen in four parts. After his divine commission, we can observe his immediate...

objection

The instructions for building the tabernacle is interrupted with the story of ...

the golden calf

In Joshua 5, the Israelites look back to remember God's covenant with His people. They  renew this covenant by ...

circumcision and celebrating the passover

We also see the Israelites look forward in Joshua 5. The story of the angelic commander reveals that this story is not about the Israelites vs. the Canaanites, but the coming events are ...

god’s battles

The first two battles in the book of Joshua, Jericho and Ai, contrast God's faithfulness with ...

israel’s failure

In Joshua's farewell speeches, the aging leader of Israel reminds the people that faithfulness to the covenant results in life and ...

blessing in the land

According to Lennox, one of the central lessons of Joshua (and all the historical books) is ...

obedience brings blessing; disobedience brings disaster

The land of Canaan was important in God's plan because ...

all of the above- it demonstrated that the Israelites were god people, it would be a place where god would display his model community

The Book of Joshua seems extremely violent to us, especially in light of the teachings of Jesus. However, we must realize that the author uses _________ to describe many of the battles.

hyberbole

Similar to the Israelites exodus from Egypt, the book of Joshua reveal a miraculous crossing through a body of water. The crossing of the Jordan River can best be described as ...

the river stopped flowing upstream

The best way to describe the conquest of Canaan in Joshua 1-12. 

the defeat of key city-states and alliances

Perhaps the Book of Judges makes more sense when we observe that Joshua failed to ...

mentor a successor

The Book of Judges gets its name from the type of _______ Israel had during this period. 

leader

The three major judges at the end of the Book of Judges, Gideon, Jephthah and Samson can be described as ...

idol maker, foolish, the worst

The theme in Judges that is repeated four times at the end of the book.

israel had no king

There is a key phrase repeated in the stories of Gideon, Jephthah and Samson, "The spirit of the Lord came upon him". This reveals God's _________.

empowerment

Judges 3:7-11 introduces the outline of the Book of Judges and why it was necessary for God to send the judges. We see in this passage an example of the coming ______ that dominate the book. 

cycles

The last story in Judges describes a ___________ among the Israelites.

civil war

God told Samson's parents that he was to be a "Nazirite" from birth. Besides not ever cutting his hair, he was to ....

abstain from alcoholic beverages for life

The Book of Ruth is set in the time of the judges. The Book of Judges tells some history of Israel in the time of _______. The Book of Ruth tells about a time of _______.

war; peace

A "kinsman-redeemer" was charged with looking after the interests of ...

a clan member

We find out the purpose of the Book of Ruth at the end: the family background of Israel's greatest ...

king

The books of 1 & 2 Samuel begin where the book of Judges end. 

israel is in chaos caused by disobedience

Hannah's song in 1 Sam. 2 serves as an introduction to these books. She prophesied a future ...

messianic king

The story of the Philistines capturing the Ark of the Covenant teaches that God is not Israel's trophy and that God ...

opposes pride in the philistines and his own people

As a bridge from the chaos of Judges to prosperity under David, Samuel served God in multiple roles. Which of the following was not Samuel's role?

king

What is one of the amphictyonic traditions that kept Israel's tribal confederation together?

the name of Yahweh

A threat to Israel's amphictyony. 

the philistines

One of Saul's major flaws.

he was incapable of owning his mistakes

The writer of 1 & 2 Samuel wasn't as interested in relating facts. The writer was more concerned with ...

telling what god was doing

Saul succeeded in uniting the twelve disorganized tribes into one nation.

false saul

David brought the twelve tribes together by ...

all of the above, defeating the philistines, making Jerusalem the nation’s capital, established a national military

David's new name for Jerusalem.

zion

After David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, God gives him a promise in 2 Samuel 7; a promise that is picked up in the Psalms and by future prophets:

David’s royal line will be fulfilled in a future messianic king

The prophet Nathan confronted David after his sin with Bathsheba. David responded ...

by repenting

2 Samuel ends with two poems in an epilogue. These poems celebrate a future hope ...

in a coming messiah

The five books in the Psalms each end with a ...

doxology and benediction

An imprecatory psalm is a prayer asking for God to ...

judge one’s enemies

The psalms are a collection of hymns gathered during David's reign

false psalms

Whereas Job gives us a window into the suffering of God's covenant people, the Psalms offers us a picture into their…

worship

The later psalms (i.e., Psalm 137) seem to have been written just after ...

the exile

David wrote _______ of the Psalms.

almost half

1 & 2 Kings were written to help the Israelites understand why they had been defeated by Babylon and to show them how ...

to return to full fellowship with God

Kings (originally one book) also tells the story of the long line of kings after David and how none of them lived up to the promise of a ...

messianic king

As Kings begin, we see a contrast between David and Solomon. Solomon began his reign by ...

executing or banishing his enemies

God tells Solomon in a dream that he could ask for whatever he wanted. Solomon's request.

wisdom

We see Solomon's decline when he 

all of the above, pursued multiple marriages, idolatry, “did not follow completely the lord as david his father had done”

When the nation of Israel split into two Kingdoms, the southern nation consisted of ...

the tribes of Judah and benjamin

The first northern king Jeroboam established two worship sites in Bethel and Dan. He set up ...

two golden calves

2 Kings describes the exploits of the two major prophets of the northern kingdom, Elijah and Elisha. Seven miracles of Elijah are recorded. Elisha performs ... 

fourteen

The author of Kings evaluates all of the kings with this criteria.

all of the above, did he worship the god of israel alone?, did he rid the nation of idolatry?, was he faithful to the covenant?

The number of northern kings who were faithful (out of twenty who ruled).

zero