Bib rev exam 2

What should Ruth actually be called

Naomi

Meaning of the name Bethlehem

Beth (house), Lehem (bread)

Why did Bethlehem have a famine

God pulled his blessings so the land could not produce food

Allusion in the book of Ruth

When Abraham left his land because of a famine bad things happened and Naomi’s husband is leaving the land because of a famine

meaning of the name Elimelech (Namoi’s husband)

Elime (My God) lech(king) (My God is king)

Meaning of Ruth’s name

Companion

Meaning of the name Naomi

Pleasant

Meaning of Mara (new name of Naomi)

Bitter

Mentioning of God in Ruth

God is not mention a lot but it suppose to show that God is going his work behind the curtains

Overall message

We have free will but God has control over history

Providence

Gods hidden control

How does God visit Ruth and Naomi

He fixes all that went wrong for Naomi including giving her a son (Hebrew word doesn’t differentiate between a son and grandson)

The word wings used in Ruth

First Boaz uses the word wing in a pray asking God to protect Ruth and later Ruth uses it asking Boaz to spread his wings over her

Purpose of Genealogy at the end of Ruth

To tell you that God uses his power to guide history to what he wants it to be. It shows that Ruth becomes a relative of David

Perez in Genealogy in Ruth

Perez is found in Genesis chapter 38, he is the son of Juda

Common theme between Indiana Jones and Samuel

Both have a dumb view of the ark of the convenient

When Israel looses a battle they should ask

What have we done to upset God

What did the Israelites do wrong when they lost the battle against the Philistines

They went to the Ark of the Covenant expecting it to give them power when God is the one who has power and has been giving them blessings

Meaning of Ebenezer

Ebon (stone) ezer (Help) (stone of help) (monument to the power of God and for the help he gave during the 2nd battle against the philistines)

Anachronism (They gather at Ebenezer)

This was before Ebenezer existed and is used to show that they gathered at the place that would later represent the help God gave them (the same place God help them is the same place they decided to worship the box and not God)

Dagon bowing to the God of Israel

When the Philistines captured the Ark they put it in front of their stone statue of Dragon and in the morning the statue had fallen in front of the box

Biggest literary device in Samuel

Contrast

What should Samuel really be called

David

Why is Samuel split into 2 books

The Septuagint split it

Broad structure of Samuel

1) Samuel vs Eli son

2) Saul vs David

3) David vs David

Interchange

Changing from the good that Samuel was doing to the bad that Eli and son to contrast the 2

Story of Saul’s son Jonathan

Jonathan and his arm bearer believed in God and that God would protect them and give them power because he did not like the Philistines so they went to a philistines camp and killed everyone by themselves

Contrast of Saul and David

As Saul kept failing and falling from power David continue to rise in power

David’s biggest sin

David slept with Bathsheba and murdered her husband Uriah

Literary frame in Samuel

Begins with Hannah’s song and ends with David’s song

Hannah’s song

She is celebrating God giving her a son

David’s song

Summary of what God wants you to learn

Samuel Literary Artistry

Repetition and contrast

Hebrew word for Glory

Cavode

The direct translation of Kavode is glory but

Another everyday use of the word is heavy or big

Kavode in samule

God asks Eli why he Kavods his son but not him (why he honored his sons but not him) (his son acted like pagens)

How did Eli die

When someone tells Eli that the ark was taken he fell backwards off his and broke his neck because he was Kavode (He was too fat)

Ichabod (meaning)

Depart of Glory

What did the Eli’s daughter in law call her son

Ichabod because the Ark of the Covenant had been taken from Israel

Dawkins Idea of God

When Dawkins looks up to the night sky and sees the beauty in the stars he feels like it is god like but he believes that God is just an illusion

What does psalms 19 tell us

Psalms 19 tells us that the glory of God can be found in nature and the night sky

Psalms 5 book structure

1-2 Written by David framed by Psalms about David

3 Psalms when the Kings failed

4 Moses only Psalms

5 Looks into the future Kingship is not gone because god is still king

Psalm 110

Messianic psalm that introduces the 5th book of psalms

Halleluiah meaning

Y’all praise god (an imperative)

C.S. Lewis

He was an atheist that found God and wondered why God demands praise

Why does God command praise from us

God wants us to praise things that are good and God is good he represents perfection and righteousness

What is praise

Praise is the spontaneous expression of delight in anything that you enjoy

If Praise is the spontaneous expression of delight how can God command us to praise him

The command to praise him is an invitation to take part in his goodness and to know him because when you know him you will praise God

Hypocatastasis

A declaration that implies a comparison (You are a rock star)

Metonymy

When you substitute one word for another that represents the same word (I will now bow down to the crown)

Synecdoche

A figure of speech where a part represents the whole or vice versa. (All hands on deck)

Most common adding or amplifying figure is

Parallelism: saying things more than once in a similar way

synonymous

saying the same thing with different words

synthetic

using parallelism but adding with each repetition

Emblematic

Using an image or symbol that is carried out through out the poem

antithetical

a line that is contrasting the previous line

Climatic

The second or later lines repeats with slight variation

Formal

2 lines that are parallel in form only

Wrong usage of Ecclesiastes in Luke

The guy in Luke said that he will eat drink and be merry which is what it tells you to do in Ecclesiastes but the guy in Luke isn’t giving praise to God as he is doing that

Pragmatism

A school of philosophy where things that work are true

meaning of wisdom in the bible

To be wise means that you are useful wisdom is a skill or trade that can be learned

Greek meaning of philosophy

philo (love) sophy(wisdom) (the love of wisdom)

What does Ecclesiastes teach us

How to live life and praise God. It also tells us that life is complicated and that God has not given us the ability's to fully understand it.

Walter c. Kaiser

Know for having a large influence on how people interpret Ecclesiastes

Conclusion of Ecclesiastes

Everything should bring delight and that everything that is good comes from God

meaning of Hebel

Can be translated as vanity or hopeless but can also mean an enigma or difficult to understand

The contrast of sections in Ecclesiasts

Long: tells us that things don’t really matter and that everything is vanity (Suppose to represent life without God)

Short: tells us the complexities of life and that it should be enjoyed (represents life with God)

Sigmund Freud

An Atheist that admits that being an ashiest is a lonely endeavor

Goad and nails in Ecclesiastes

The book is suppose to make you think of life without God and how sad and meaningless it would be but also to get to realize that we don’t live in that world and to be happy about it.

Isaiah chapter 6

Isaiah had a vision that where he is in front of god and says that he is not worth and an angel touches his lips with a coal and his sins are gone and God says he needs someone to tell Israel the word of God and Isaiah says he will do it and then God tells him that he will say the right things but no one will listen to him

What did Isaiah do first as one of the latter prophets

He told the Israelites that are going to be exiled for their sins

Meaning of Holy

To be set apart

Meaning of Saint

To be a Saint just means that you are devoted to the lord

The 2 fold structure in Isaiah

The book of judgement (1-39)

The book of comfort (40-66)

What does Isaiah call God

The Holy one of Israel

Isaiah’s 3 portraits of the Messiah

The book of kings 1-37 (Ask about chapter numbers)

the book of servants 38-55

the book of the anointed conqueror 56-66

The First book of Isaiah’s Messiah (the king)

God is king

Human king is on David’s throne

The Messiah is king (combining the first 2 )

The second book in Isaiah’s Messiah (The servant)

The servant songs

Shows that the messiah is not only a God in the from of a man but that he serves his people

Meanings of servant:

Individual

Prophetic

The nation

The Messiah

The 3rd book is Isaiah’s Messiah (The anointed conqueror)

1. songs celebrating his future conquest
2. how faithful ones live until his conquest
3. 4 more songs that are parallel to the other songs in Isaiah

Literary devices common in Isaiah

Poetry

Chiasms

Word plays

alliteration

What is Isaiah framed with

Isaiah is framed with rebellion

Hear o heavens listen o earth

This is convenient language calling back to the suzerain vessel treaty and the witnesses to see if Israel has failed their covenant

Incorrect interpretation of Matthew’s miss use of the Old Testament

NT authors used contemporary Jewish interpretation methods and we don’t know how to read it

Mishnah

The collected sayings of Rabbis from 200bc to 200 ad

C. H Dodd’s take on Matthews incorrect use of the OT

When a NT author refers to the OT they want you to remember the context of the reference and not just the actual reference, This is called broad reference

How does the NT affect the OT

The NT gives better understanding and explains the OT in different ways and redefines things

Units for the genealogy of Christ

The Units refer to the different periods of in the history of Israel

1) The rise of Israel from Abraham

2) The fall of Israel and their abandonment of God

3) Life during exile

Separation of 1st and 2nd unit in the genealogy of Christ

The first unit end with “David, the king” the added information of “the king” and that David is the last one in the list for that unit shows that David was the height of Israel however the it then picks up with the son birthed by Uria’s wife showing that David sin of adulatory was the beginning of Israel’s fall

Women in the Genealogy of Christ

In the time of the creation of this genealogy only men were included in the genealogy so for women to be included is very irregular but show the importance of these women in the creation of Christ

Why is each unit in the genealogy of Christ 14 names long

Each unit is 14 names long with names left out on purpose. The Jews like to use Alphanumeric a lot where each letter of the alphabet refers to a number and if you turn the word for David into alphanumeric and add the numbers it adds to 14

Jewish word for alphanumerics

Gematria

Broad reference

When NT writers refer to OT scripture but they want the reader to understand the context of the reference and not the actual reference

How is Israel a multiplex word

The word Israel refers to the nation but also the people who hold the ideals of the nation true to their heart so someone can be part of Israel without truly being part of Israel

What is the main idea of Ezra and Nehemiah

For the people of Jerusalem to rebuild Jerusalem physically and spiritually, It also gives reference to pastors on how to revive faith in their congregation

Who separated Ezra and Nehemiah

The books were originally one and it was separated by Origen

How do we know that they were originally 2 books

At the end of each book in the Hebrew bible there was a bunch of footnotes explaining details about the book like the middle word of the book but this only occurs at the end of Nehemiah

How is globalization found in the bible

Ezra Cyprus king of Persia said that God had given him the world even though he didn’t control even close to all of the world but he was such a major power in the world

The parallel structure found in Ezra and Nehemiah

1) Rebuilding the temple

2) Religious reform

3) Rebuilding the city walls

4) Religious reform

The Inclusio found in Ezra and Nehemiah

The list of names found in Ezra and that is almost exactly repeated in Nehemiah sections off the single unit of Rebuilding the house of God

3 cycles in Ezra and Nehemiah

Rebuild the Temple

Rebuild the community

Rebuild the wall