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BIB-106 EXAM 2 TEST
Describe the contents of the book of Job. What literary genres does it contain? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ The main body of the book is poetry and contains
the speeches of Job, his advisers, and, finally, God. The book closes with a brief epilogue, again in prose. The prose prologue and epilogue create a literary frame for the poetic speeches
What is the central message of the book of Job? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔
️ The speeches at the center of the book wrestle with some of life's most
difficult questions. Specifically, the speakers deal with undeserved suffering and the attendant problem of theodicy.
Who were the main authors of the Psalms? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ David
Asaph
Sons of Korah
Name the basic psalm types and describe their characteristics? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ HYMNS: Songs of praise and thanksgiving to God for who he is
and what he has done.
PENITENTIAL: Confess sorrow for sin, appeal to God for grace and forgiveness.
WISDOM: General observations on life, especially God and our relationship to him.
ROYAL: Focus on the king as the son of David and as God's chosen man to rule his people.
MESSIANIC: Describe some aspect of the Messiah's person or ministry.
IMPRECATORY: Call for God's judgment against God's enemies and/or his people's enemies.
LAMENT: Lament one's condition; usually includes statement of lament, statement of trust in God, and
What is the opening thesis of the book of Ecclesiastes and what does it mean within the context of Ecclesiastes? - Correct Answer ✔ ️ ✔️ The book's
thesis is that everything is meaningless: "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity"
... "The vanity and meaninglessness in this book's motto are intense and all- encompassing: "Everything is utterly meaningless"
What are some main themes of the book of Ecclesiastes? - Correct Answer ✔
️ ✔️ The more humans pride themselves in their achievements and
development,
the more things remain the same: "there is nothing new under the sun"
What are the conclusions of the book of Ecclesiastes? - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ Meaningfulness and significance in life are fleeting and may even seem
impossible. But we are placed here to live in relationship with God, regardless of our circumstances. This is our only goal in life, and if we miss it, we miss everything.
What is the main subject of the book Song of Songs? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔
️ The book is a song about awakening love, written (or sung) in two parts — the man's and the woman's — with choral responses sprinkled throughout. The
individual poems of the Song appear to have shared a similar structure, with several variations. The woman (or occasionally the man) is described as beautiful and desirable. Then the speaker expresses a wish to be with her (or him)"
Who are the main characters in the book of 1 Samuel? - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ Samuel, Saul, & David
Describe Samuel's speech to the people after Samuel anointed Saul to be king. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ 1. He offered to make restitution to anyone he had wronged (12:3-5).
- Samuel told the people that they had sinned by asking for a king (12:8-18).
- Samuel urged the people to follow the Lord with all their hearts (12:20-25).
What were the events surrounding Saul's rejection in 1 Samuel 13-15? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ - Saul usurped the priestly role when it served his purposes
(13:8-14).
David spent several years as a fugitive. But Saul's death on Mount Gilboa prepared the way for David to occupy Israel's throne.
- David's choice of Jerusalem for his Capital City:
-- David defeated them and made Jerusalem his capital. He also brought the ark of the covenant there, making the city Israel's political and religious center (6:1- 19).
- God's covenant with David:
-- David wanted to build God a temple, a "house" on which God could place his name. Instead, God promised to build David a "house" of descendants. The Lord affirmed that David's son would build the temple and that divine favor would not depart from David's line.
- David's sin leads to Serious Consequences:
-- David's inability to control his passions led to adultery with Bathsheba and later to the murder of Bathsheba's husband, Uriah.
What did David desire to do that led to God making a covenant with him? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ David wanted to build God a house, but
God told David he would build him one — a
house of descendants....
What are the main features of God's covenant with David in 2 Samuel 7? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ - God would provide a place for Israel to dwell
securely forever.
- God would raise up David's son, who would build the temple.
- God would establish David's dynastic line forever.
- God would establish a father-son relationship with David's descendants.
- God's loving-kindness would not depart from David's dynastic line as it had from Saul
Describe David's sin and its effects on the rest of his reign: - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ David's interest in Bathsheba should have stopped when he
What are the aspects of the regnal formula within the books of Kings? - Correct
Answer ✔️ ✔️ This formula contains an evaluation of each king, based on his
faithfulness to the covenant and his willingness to walk in the ways of King David, the ideal Israelite king. Many of the kings who failed to maintain the covenant with the Lord were compared to Jeroboam I of Israel, who epitomized rebellion and disregard for God.
- The author's primary concern is covenant faithfulness and loyalty to God, not political prowess
When did the Northern and Southern kingdoms fall and to what nations? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ - Northern Israel fell to Assyrians in 722 BC.
- Judah [Southern Kingdom] fell to Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian military in 587 BC.
"salvation history" - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔ ️ Denotes a theological principle
that interprets the Bible as describing God's actions of salvation in history.
The events of salvation history are supernatural divine revelations in time and space and are recorded in Scripture to promote faith.
Deuteronomistic history
To what books does the term refer? - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Hypothesis states that an anonymous editor (the "Deuteronomist") combined several sources into a long document detailing Israel's history theologically.
Referred to the books of Deuteronomy- 2ndKings, excluded Ruth.
What are the three main divisions of the book of Joshua? - Correct Answer ✔
️ ✔️ 1. Israel Conquers the Land
- Israel Divides the Land
- Israel Begins to Settle into the Land
Describe the request of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh. - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Their request was to settle in the land
east of the Jordan.
judge - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ properly a magistrate or ruler
- these chapters show Israel's failure to live in covenant relationship with God
(one of darkest periods of Israel's national history)
During what period does the book of Ruth take place? - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ The time of the judges.
Describe the concept of a kinsman-redeemer as found in the book of Ruth: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ a male relative who had the responsibility to act on
behalf of a relative who was in trouble, danger, or need.
designates one who delivers or rescues (boaz in ruth)
During what period does the book of 1 Samuel begin? - Correct Answer ✔️
✔️ The book of 1 Samuel begins in the judges period, a time when people did
what was right in their own eyes.
Name and explain the main themes of the book of 1 Samuel: - Correct Answer
✔️ ✔️ - Samuel's Ministry:
-- Samuel rose to prominence in Israel.
-- God judged Eli's house and established Samuel as Israel's new spiritual leader.
-- This man of God served the people faithfully and honestly, seeking only God's best for them.
-- God's selection of Saul initiated a new period in Israel's history. Whereas the judges period featured rule by many leaders from various tribes, 1 Samuel describes a time when centralized power rested in the hands of one man: the king.
- David's Rise to Prominence:
-- Samuel anointed David, a young Judean shepherd from Bethlehem (16:1-13).
-- This anointing did not make David king; rather, it only affirmed him as Saul's successor.
-- By God's leading, David's fame began to increase. First, he became one of Saul's court musicians, who played to ease the king's troubled spirit (16:14-23). Second, David became a capable military leader, defeating the Philistine giant Goliath and leading Israel's army (17:1-18:5).
- Chiasm: "... occurs when successive lines of poetry reverse the order in which parallel themes appear, "crisscrossing" each other" - Acrostics: "alphabetic poems"
Describe parallelism in Hebrew poetry: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ - Typically,
the lines display parallelism of thought rather than parallelism of rhyme or sound. Three primary types of parallelism occur in Hebrew poetry: synonymous parallelism, antithetic parallelism, and synthetic parallelism
Wisdom literature - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ This is a designation modern
scholars use for three books that share "wisdom" features: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.
theodicy: - Correct Answer ✔️ ✔️ Theodicy is the attempt to justify God's ways in the world.
i.e. If God is both all powerful and all-loving, as the Bible claims, then how can evil exist in the world?
