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33 Cards in this Set
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What type of literature is included in the Writings?
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Wisdom, poetry, apocalyptic and history
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What books are included in the Writings and why are they placed together?
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Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, 1 and 2 Chronicles
Together, these books represent an important stage in the history of Israel and the development of its religion and society |
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Define Theodicy.
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Greek for “Justice of God”. A term that denotes the issue of God’s justice on relation to the problem of human suffering
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Know that wisdom literature look at everyday life
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Know that wisdom literature look at everyday life
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Define Diaspora.
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Greek for “scattering”. A termed for the Dispersion of the Jewish people, a process which began after defeats in 721 and 587 BCE and resulted in the growth of sizable Jewish communities outside Palestine
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What are the Psalms?
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Israel’s payers and songs of Israel’s faith which teach and unify the people of God
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Who wrote the Psalms? How can you tell?
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1/3 of the Psalms were written by King David and the others were written by followers of David or a unknown author
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Define Psalms of Orientation, Disorientation, New Orientation
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Psalms of Orientation- are songs of joy, goodness, and praise. Life is reflected as not troubled or threatened, but as a well-ordered world intended by God
Psalms of Disorientation- are songs of rage, hatred, shame and anger. They lead us into a dangerous acknowledgement of how life really is, the presence of God where everything is not polite and civil Psalms of New Orientation- are songs of thanksgiving. The state of being out of disorientation into joy and grace with experiences after the darkness of disorientation |
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Know that we are supposed to MOVE through these Psalms of “human experience”
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Know that we are supposed to MOVE through these Psalms of “human experience”
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Know that poetry is concentrated language that compresses a lot of thought into only a few words.
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Know that poetry is concentrated language that compresses a lot of thought into only a few words.
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Know and be able to identify the different speech forms in a Psalm
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Invocation- gets God’s attention; usually presupposes a problem the psalmist needs to solve
Petition- calls upon God to do something, perhaps to intervene and give aid or to forgive; usually contains an imperative Praise- general language affirming the character of God, or it can be thanks for a specific act Call to praise- enlists fellow worshipers in acclaiming the wonders of the deity Vow of praise- promises to credit YHWH with the yet-to-be experienced deliverance |
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What is a Proverb?
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A short memorable saying that encapsulates a truth about life
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Where does wisdom come from? (2 places)
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Wisdom comes from the fear of the Lord and human effort
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What is Retribution theology?
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The outlook found in Deuteronomic and wisdom literature that God punishes wrongdoers for their bad deeds (you do right and you will be blessed, you do wrong and you will be punished)
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What is wisdom personified as? How is folly personified?
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Wisdom- the “perfect” wife
Folly- a promiscuous women |
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Where does wisdom come from?
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Fear of the LORD and human effort
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What is the Fear of the LORD?
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The beginning of wisdom; refers to the deep awe and reverence for God that one must have to live properly
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The “ _________ ___ ____ ______ is the beginning of wisdom”
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Fear of the LORD
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Why do some Proverbs contradict each other?
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One verse tells you to do something and then the next tells you not to do it.
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The “good wife” in Proverbs 31 is an example of …?
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wisdom
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What is the book of Job arguing against?
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The idea of retribution theology
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Satan (the Accuser) argues that Job is blameless because of what?
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Because God gives him everything anyone could wish for
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What is amazing about his response to his servants’ bad news?
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He praises God
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What do we know about Job’s suffering?
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The suffering kept getting worse with every piece of bad news and they were a test of his faith
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What did Job’s friends do that was compassionate?
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His friends sat with him in silence for seven days
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What kind of advice did Job’s friends give that was wrong? Why was it wrong?
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They call claim that sin is the cause of Job’s suffering. It is wrong because suffering doesn’t only come to the bad, anyone can be the subject of suffering
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How does Job respond to his poor health situation?
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He responds by demanding that God gives him a reason for why he is suffering
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How does God respond to Job?
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By questioning Job and asking who is he, Job, to question the God and saying that Job has no knowledge of how God created the runs the world
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How does the Old Testament connect to the New Testament?
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The Old Testament predicts what is to come in the New Testament
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What is the Apocrypha? Why is it contested?
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Certain Jewish books written in the Hellenistic-Roman period that came to be included in the Old Greek Jewish scriptures, but not in the Jewish or Protestant biblical canons
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Know and be able to fill in the blanks of the history of salvation storyline discussed in class.
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God-Humanity-Earth
Abraham-Moses-Joshua-Judges-Kings Prophets-Jesus |
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If the storyline is followed to completion, is the story over yet? What are we waiting for?
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No it is not over yet. We are waiting for the return of Genesis
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Why is it important to read the Old and the New Testament for a balanced perspective?
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The Old Testament explains everything that God did to return everything back to the way of Genesis and why it is needed for God to fix humanity himself but in the form of a human (Jesus)
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