Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
68 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Considered the most reliable textual tradition of OT manuscripts
|
Masoretic Text
|
|
The highest geographical point in Israel.
|
Mount Hermon
|
|
The only Mediterranean Sea port in Ancient Israel
|
Acco
|
|
The length of the Jordan River measured as a straight line.
|
65 miles
|
|
The earliest possible starting date for the Exodus
|
1446 BC
|
|
These two aspects reveal the primary ways human beings bear God's image according to Genesis 1:27-28
|
multiplication and dominion
|
|
Noah's name means...
|
comfort or relief
|
|
This Semitic people controlled Egypt at the time of Joseph
|
Hyksos
|
|
In what chapter of Genesis does Abraham receive the covenant of Circumcision
|
Genesis 17
|
|
The only plague, which came upon Egypt without Moses's prior confrontation of Pharaoh
|
Darkness
|
|
The chapter in which the first Passover is described in the book of Exoduse
|
Exodus 12
|
|
According to the Pentateuch's narrative, Israel arrives at Sinai in Exodus 19:1-2 and remains there until...
|
Numbers 10
|
|
The only day in Israel's worship calendar, which does not memorialize and event in Israel's history, nor relate to her agricultural cycle...
|
Day of Atonement
|
|
According to Leviticus 1-7, this sacrifice is made in order to make restitution to God and / or to fellow Israelites
|
Guilt offering
|
|
Of many rebellions reported in Numbers, this one brings death upon the 1st generation in the wilderness
|
refusing to enter the promised land
|
|
The chapter in which the Day of Atonement is described in the book of Leviticus
|
Leviticus 16
|
|
After the death of their husbands Ruth travels with Naomi to the town of....
|
Bethlehem
|
|
This son of Gideon is not described as a judge, but as the 'king of Shechem'
|
Abimelech
|
|
Described as both a judge and a prophetess, Deborah predicted that this general would need the help of a woman
|
Barak
|
|
The phrase which best describes the purpose of the book of Judges
|
Israel needs a king
|
|
The time frame between Joshua and Samuel
|
1385 - 1050 BC
|
|
The book of Joshua depicts the initial campaign against this city as a negative pattern of 'holy' war, which Israel must avoid in the conquest of Canaan
|
Ai
|
|
According to Joshua 8, these mountains are where tribal representatives stood in fulfillment of Deut. 27 to renew the covenant blessings and curses in the new land
|
Mount Ebal
Mount Gerazim |
|
The chapter in Deuteronomy where the Ten commandments are found
|
Deut. 5
|
|
Deuteronomy provides new legislation as God's people enter the land. This chapter describes the test of a true prophet and anticipates 'a prophet like Moses'
|
Deut. 18
|
|
According to Deuteronomy 12, the LORD will first identify the exclusive central place for Israel's worship as "the place where I shall choose to put my..."
|
name
|
|
The Song which introduces and foreshadows the Books of Samuel
|
Hannah's Song
|
|
An important office, which allows human kingship to fit within Israel's covenantal framework by representing God's Law to the King
|
the Prophet
|
|
The mountain where Elijah confronted the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18
|
Mount Carmel
|
|
This king of Israel established the city of Samaria as its capital.
|
Omri
|
|
The symbolic name of Eli's grandson which lamented the capture of the Ark by the Philistines, and the absence of God's special presence
|
Ichabod
|
|
These minor prophets mentioned explicitly in Ezra 5 as supporting the Temple reconstruction under Zerubbabel
|
Haggai & Zechariah
|
|
The return from exile and rebuilding of the Temple was authorized by
|
Cyrus' Edict
|
|
The Chronicler's primary source for his history of Israel's monarchical perion
|
Samuel & Kings
|
|
Ezra's prayer (8) and the people's subsequent confession (9) lamented...
|
Inter-religious marriages
|
|
The year the rebuilt Temple was finally completed and dedicated
|
515 BC
|
|
The Psalms are arranged in 5 books, each of which ends with...
|
A Doxology
|
|
Israel's wisdom tradition highlights the LORD as the source of all wisdom and underscores the nature of wisdom as supremely...
|
moral
|
|
Pithy and practical, this kind of wisdom is generally optimistic
|
didactic
|
|
The book of Proverbs exhibits an appreciation for "wisdom" wherever it is found. Chapter 22-23 show parallels with "The teachings of Amenemope" from...
|
Egypt
|
|
A specific type of psalm that pays a vow of praise after a petition is answered
|
Psalm of Thanksgiving
|
|
1 Kings 4:32 tells us that this king wrote thousands of Proverbs. He is considered the fountainhead of the Israelite wisdom tradition.
|
Solomon
|
|
The book of Ester explains the origins of this feast.
|
Feast of Purim
|
|
A Specific type of psalm, which asks God to punish his enemies or the enemies of his people
|
Imprecatory Psalm
|
|
This major prophet provides an eyewitness, canonical account of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians
|
Jeremiah
|
|
The final destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar's army occurred in
|
587 BC
|
|
The name of Jeremiah's student or scribal assistant, who wrote down his words
|
Baruch
|
|
Found in these chapters, Jeremiah's "book of comfort" speaks of a return from exile for God's people through repentance and God's making of a new covenant.
|
Chapters 30-33
|
|
This book shares several thematic linguistic similarities with Jeremiah's prophecy. The weight of Jewish and Christian tradition holds that it, too, was authored by the prophet.
|
Lamentations
|
|
Dimensions of the Tabernacle
|
45 feet long
15 feet wide 15 feet high |
|
Construction of the Tabernacle
|
Wooden skeletal structure, overlaid with gold, no solid roof or front wall. Five wooden bars (overlaid with gold) passed through rings attached to each frame.
The framed structure was covered by four layers of cloth and skin. |
|
Dimensions of the Most Holy Place
|
15 foot cubed
|
|
Dimensions of the Holy Place
|
30 feet long
15 foot wide 15 foot high |
|
Construction of the veil separating the holy place from the most holy place
|
made from blue, purple and scarlet died yarns woven with fine twined linen and embroidered with cherubim. It hung on four golden pillars
(the veil that formed the entrance to the tabernacle was similar except no cherubim embroidered on it & it was suspended by five golden pillars) |
|
Furniture of the tabernacle
|
table for the bread of presence
golden lamp-stand alter of incense ark of the covenant |
|
Describe the tabernacle and court
|
tabernacle was a portable temple - a tent of meeting - within a moveable courtyard. It was constructed after the pattern that Yahweh revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and was assembeled in the dessert as Moses led the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land.
|
|
Dimensions of the tabernacle courtyard
|
150 feet long
75 feet wide 11,250 square feet |
|
Furniture of the tabernacle courtyard
|
bronze altar
bronze basin |
|
Describe the tabernacle courtyard gate
|
30 foot gate covered with a screen made from blue, purple and scarlet dyed yarns that were woven with fine twisted linen
|
|
Describe the tabernacle courtyard perimeter hangings
|
fine twined linen curtains were connected to pillars (60 total) and stood about 7.5 feet high.
The pillars were overlaid with bronze, stood in copper sockets and had capitals overlaid with silver. |
|
List the three division of the Hebrew bible and the five divisions of the English Old Testament
|
Law תורה
Prophets נביאם Writing וכתבים Law Historical Books Poetic Books Major Prophets Minor Prophets |
|
Ten Plagues of Egypt
|
1. Nile to blood
2. Frogs from the Nile 3. Dust to gnats 4. Flies 5. Egyptian livestock die 6. Boils 7. Hail 8. Locust 9. Darkness 10. Death of Firstborn |
|
Five major Leviticus offerings
|
Burnt offering
Grain offering Peace offering Sin offering Guilt offering |
|
Vision in Daniel Chapter 2 Interpretation
|
1. Head of Gold - Babylonian Empire
2. Chest & Arms of Silver - Medo-Persian Empire 3. Middle thighs of bronze - Greek Empire 4. Legs & feet of iron & clay - Roman Empire 5. Stone - Messianic Kingdom |
|
Vision in Daniel Chapter 7 Interpretation
|
1. Lion w/ wings of eagle - Babylonian Empire
2. Bear raised up on 1 side - Medo-Persian Empire 3. Leopard w/ four wings & head - Greek Empire 4. Terrifying beast w/ iron teeth - Roman Empire 5. Little horn uttering great boasts - Antichrist |
|
Literary Cycle of the Judges
|
Apostasy, Servitude, Supplication, Salvation
|
|
List the 12 Tribes of Israel
|
1. Reuben
2. Simeon 3. Levi 4.Judah 5. Zebulun 6. Issachar 7. Dan 8. Asher 9. Naphtali 10. Ephraim 11. Manasseh 12. Benjamin |
|
Ten Commandments
|
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
1. no other God's before me 2. not make for yourself a carved image... (you shall not bow down to them or serve them) 3. not take the name of the Lord your God in vain 4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy 5. Honor your father & mother 6. You shall not murder 7. You shall not commit adultery 8. You shall not steal 9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor 10 you shall not covet... anything that is your neighbors |