Old Testament Exam 1

Front 1

What is the significance,date and name for J?

Back 1

Jahwist(jaweah)
10th century
-views God in anthropomorphism way.
-attends to man and earth
most primitive

Front 2

What is the significance,date and name for E?

Back 2

Elohist
9th century
Very similar to J
emphasizes northern regions

Front 3

What is the significance,date and name for D?

Back 3

Dueteronomist
722 B.C.
Central of worship
-strongly linked to duet

Front 4

What is the significance,date and name for P?

Back 4

Priestly
6th/7th century
geneology/law/order

Front 5

Who is Astruc?

Back 5

defended mosaic authorship
said moses wrote with 'yaweah' and used 'elohim' later in his life.

Front 6

Who is Wellhausen?

Back 6

1880's Developed the Documentary Hypothesis.

Front 7

What is postmosaica? Give an example

Back 7

-parts of the bible that couldnt/wouldnt be written by moses
-death of moses
-Duet 34 and Gen14:14

Front 8

What is amosaica? Give an example

Back 8

Numbers 12:4

Front 9

What are the four main parts to scripture?

Back 9

1-Creation
2-Fall
3-redemption
4-Consummation

Front 10

What 8 things does Gen 1&2 teach us?

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1-God is soverign and supreme-has no rivals
2-God created the world fom nothing.
3-God is not a part of creation=trascendant, but eminent
4-Evil in the world today is apart from God's original creation
5-God brings order into the world
6-Creation emphasizes that humans occupy a special place in creation=breath of God
7-Humans are created gendered and sexual
8-Institutions like work and marriage are established.

Front 11

What four-part structure does Gen 4-11 have?

Back 11

1-Sin
2-Judgment speech
3-token of grace
4-execution of judgment.

Front 12

How is the Bible as a seed?

Back 12

seed=word of God
-seed looks lifeless, under right conditions transforms into a fertile plant.
-if planted in the right conditions-transforms your life.

Front 13

How is the Bible as a mirror?

Back 13

-'mirror of the soul'
-if reading it properly, reading ourself.

Front 14

What functions do the genealogies on Gen 4 and 5 have?

Back 14

-connect the stories
-gives it a historical feels, shows that it is over a long period of time.
-ch4-associated with the first city
-ch5-Godly geneology

Front 15

What is the toledot and its significance?

Back 15

-"account" bibles says, 'this is the toledot'
-1st use is in creation account of 'heavens and the earth'
-indication of ancient sources
-indication of ancient structure

Front 16

What is the Documentary Hypothesis?

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-the culmentaion of the 1700's thinking.
-motivated by the perceived contradictions. (Gen37)
1-Double naming
2-double stories (creation)
3-Different theologies-neotheistic and monotheistic
4-different terms-yaweah and elohim

Front 17

What is the Late Redactional Activity?

Back 17

-toledot formula-the account-11 times. MORE

Front 18

Diachronic

Back 18

talking through time-bibical metaphors develop in this way-carries us from Gen-Rev
-often resurface in NT

Front 19

synchronic

Back 19

talking about one subject at one period in time

Front 20

what is the name for the Hebrew bible?

Back 20

Tanak

Front 21

How is the Hebrew Bible organized?

Back 21

-Torah-Law
-Nebi'im-Prophets
-Ketubim-wrtings (starts with pslams)

Front 22

What are the Hebrew Prophet books?

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Former
-Joshua
-Judges
-Samuels
-Kings

Latter-
Isiah
Jeremiah
Ezekial

Front 23

What are the Hebrew writings books?

Back 23

Psalms
job
proverbs
ruth
song of songs
Ecclesiastes
lamentations
ester
daniel
ezra
Nehemiah
chronicles

Front 24

Why is Ruth put right after Proverbs in the Hebrew Bible?

Back 24

Proverbs ends with 'the virtuous woman'
ruth is referred to as the virtuous woman.

Front 25

Why does song of songs follow ruth in the Hebrew Bible ordering?

Back 25

The song of songs talks about the woman talking/acting more and pursuing the man-as in ruth

Front 26

Megillot

Back 26

scrolls associated with the jewish festival
-ruth
song of songs
eccles
lam
ester

Front 27

How is the english bible arranged?

Back 27

-ordered after the Greek language
-setup more historically
nothing authoritative about the ordering of the books.

Front 28

What is dispensationalism?

Back 28

view that God is working in different ways in different periods of time.

Front 29

How much of the Bible is the OT?

Back 29

39 books
77% of the Bible

Front 30

Why do Christians feel distanced from the OT?

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-took place longer ago
-Culturally-not rooted as deeply in it. Removed from the eastern setting
-can't relate to a lot of it-sacrifices
-We have seen Christ work, OT hasnt

Front 31

What is a marcianite?

Back 31

rejects the Ot and only believes the NT

Front 32

tiqunne sopherim

Back 32

the dots above the translations, placed by the preiest over the parts they didnt fully know to be true.
-shows level of reliably-no corrections made.

Front 33

What is the aramaic targum

Back 33

-renditions of hebrew->aramaic
expanded and paraphrased some parts. commentary
-said three books didnt match up.-job, jeremiah, and samuel

Front 34

Vulgate

Back 34

400AD Latin translation of the Bible
jerome

Front 35

Massoretes

Back 35

scribes-'counters'
1-standarized the text through babylonion text
2-Add vowels
3-added accents-how they saw corrections(tigune sopherim)

Front 36

canon

Back 36

'standard'
standard of faith and practice-divine authority
weren't made canonical at a certain time, inheritatly canonical
-creates the church, church doesn't create the canon.

Front 37

Codex Leningradensis

Back 37

1006AD
first completed Hebrew Bible
-fromegypt->septuigant->massortes->CL

Front 38

Septuagint

Back 38

greek translation-400AD
early witness to original text
Egyptian origin

Front 39

Biblia Hebraeca Stuttgardensis (BHS)

Back 39

???????

Front 40

autograph

Back 40

original form of the book

Front 41

Samaritan Pentateuch

Back 41

from the Palestinian translation of the autograph