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| What was the Scripture that the first disciples had to teach from? |
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| What are the three specific parts of the Old Testament? |
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1. The Law
2. The Prophets
3.The Writings |
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| Name the Books of The Law. |
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1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy |
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| Name the Books of The Prophets. |
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1. Joshua
2. Judges
3. 1 Samuel
4. 2 Samuel
5. 1 Kings
6. 2 Kings
7. Isaiah
8. Jeremiah
9. Ezekiel
10. The Twelves (Hosea-Malachi) |
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| Name the Books of The Writings. |
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1. Psalms
2. Job
3. Proverbs
4. Ruth
5. Song of Songs
6. Ecclesiastes
7. Lamentations
8. Esther
9. Daniel
10. Ezra
11. Nehemiah
12. 1 Chronicles
13. 2 Chronicles |
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| What is the first advantage to the Hebrew order of books? |
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| The reader learns the basic events of Israel's history from creation to the fall of Jerusalem. All of the succeeding books then have a historical context we can relate to. |
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| What is the second advantage to the Hebrew order of books? |
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| The reader realizes the Prophets explain Israel's history. |
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| What is the third advantage to the Hebrew order of books? |
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| The reader learns that the Prophets present a uniform message. |
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| What is the fourth advantage to the Hebrew order of books? |
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| The student observes how The Writings comments on how Godly people lived in Israel in the different historical situations. |
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| Sum up the Hebrew Bible's sequence of books. |
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| It shows what happened in Israel, why it happened, and how believers responded to both. |
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| What is the overall goal of the Author of our text book? |
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| To show how the Old Testament is UNIFIED, logically. (he uses the word "unity" dozens of times in the introduction). |
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One that has a pleasant or happy ending.
i.e. David's rise to Israel's throne despite Saul's hatred (1 sm 16-2) |
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One that begins hopeful but ends sadly.
i.e. Israel's failure to enter the promised land (Numbers 13-19). |
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| What is "prose" and what are its characteristics? |
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| Prose is action oriented and nonpoetic. It describes events logically to tell us about actions and events and with no intentions of conveying anything really abstract. Most of the Old Testament is written this way. |
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| About what year (to our knowledge today) did the writing of historical texts begin? |
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| Around 3100 B.C. in Egypt and Sumeria. |
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| About what year (to our knowledge today) did Moses begin writing of the first books of the Bible? |
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| Is the Bible "technically" a History Book? |
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| No, not according to the author of the text. |
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| Some say that the Bible can't be accurate because the authors were precommitted to expressing their beliefs. What is the author's response? |
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| No truly objective Historian has ever existed. All historical writing is based on the writer's foundational principles....in otherwords...the Authors of the Bible are just as reliable as any Historian would be in that argument. |
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| What are some of the similarities that people groups around the Israelites shared with the other different people groups? |
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| Language, Religion, cultural and legal customs.... |
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| What kinds of things set the Israelites apart from the other people groups around them in Biblical Times? |
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| Their differing religion (Judaism), culture, and legal codes dramatically separated them from their neighbors. |
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| Name the six major People Groups surrounding Israel. |
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1. Assyria
2. Babylonia
3. Egypt
4. the Canaanites
5. Persia
6. Aram (Modern-day Syria) |
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| What is the Fertile Crescent? |
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| The crescent-shaped swath of agriculturally abundant land which stretches fromm Egypt north to Syria and south through the Mesopotamia. It is "fertile" simply because it is close to all the rivers in the Middle-East's primarily desert climate. |
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| In the earliest times of the Bible, what language was considered the international language of trade and diplomacy? |
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| Akkadian. It was probably even spoken by Abraham. |
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| What happened to the Israelites when they did not listen to God about the Canaanites and their idols? |
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| They interacted an f intermarried with them and as a result, they fell into cultic idol worship and were eventually exiled from their own lands. |
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| What do the Jews call the first five books of the Bible? |
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| The "Torah" ("The Law," in Hebrew...though it also means "instructions") |
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| What are the first five books of the Bible called by non-Jews (the Greek word)? |
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| The Pentateuch, "The Law" |
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| What are the two types of laws found in the Pentateuch? |
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1. The Command (The 10 Commandments)
2. Case Law (Shows how what punishments fit what crime on a case-by-case basis) |
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| Who wrote the five books of the Pentateuch? |
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| Most people, including the author's of our text, believe that Moses authored all but a few verses of the Pentateuch. |
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| What are the "movements" within the Pentateuch? |
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1. The Need for Abraham
2. The Giving of a Son
3. The Giving of the Law, or Covenant
4. The Giving of the Land |
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| The author wishes for us to be able to view the Bible as God's gift to the church and the complete truth, but what does he say about interpreting the Bible based on outside evidence? |
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| For example, Galileo was put into prison by the Catholic Church because he suggested that the Earth went around the sun...the Bible did not say so, so he was called a heretic. This is just one example that could be given as evidence that what we know outside the Bible should affect how we view the Bible. |
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| What is "special revelation?" |
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| What is "general revelation?" |
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| creation, for example, and everything else |
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| What did developments the "Scopes Monkey Trial" cause, according to the author? |
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| It has caused the debate about reassessing doctrine (how we interpret the Bible) in the Bible to be dominated by defensiveness (unwillingness to listen, at times, to other ideas...much like Galileo being imprisoned by the Catholic Church for his views on the world going around the sun rather than the other way around). |
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| What characteristics does the author say that Jesus shares with the Bible? |
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| "as Christ is both God and human, so is the Bible." We must think of the Bible as being like Jesus...Jesus was not 50% man and 50% human, he was 100% man and 100% human. [incarnational analogy] |
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| Rather than explaining the "human marks" present in the Bible away or simply ignoring them, what does the author of our text say is a better approach? |
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| Listen to these marks and learn from them. For example, the Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek (and some Aramaic). This shows us that none of those languages or peoples were particularly special to God and we should learn from this about the nature of God's love. |
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| What does the author say to those who claim the human stamps (the way humans dealt with recording the Bible)in the Bible make it "just another ancient book" |
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| How ELSE would you have expected God to speak to the author's of the Bible other than in ways THEY could have understood it? It makes things a little difficult to interpret in our own terms with the vast amounts of knowledge that we have now...which is where the problems arise. But it's human stamps do NOT hurt its trustworthiness nor its relevance to our lives today. |
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| Akkadian was the primary language of what two prominent nations in the Old Testament? |
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| It is the "Babylonian Genesis" and explains an account of creation. "Enuma Elish" are the opening words of the story, and the title, meaning "when on high." It was found in the Akkadian Tablets in the 1800's. There are similarities between it and Genesis's creation story. The purpose of the story seems to be to justify why "Murdok" should be worshipped as the supreme Babylonian God. |
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| What were the Atrahasis and Gilgamesh? |
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| These were ancient Akkadian flood stories found in the Akkadian Tablets in the 1800's that contain Flood stories remarkably similar to the story of Noah's Flood in the Bible. |
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| What was the Code of Hammurabi? |
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| Fairly long list of Laws from King Hammurabi of Babylon unearthed by French archaeologists in 1901. It parallels many Biblical laws. |
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| What is the best description from Dr. Audirsch of The Old Testament? |
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Best described as the salvation-history of Israelites;
Israel’s expression of faith with Yahweh |
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| What is the Book of the Covenant an example of? |
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| What are the collections of prophets and writings called in the Old Testament? |
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| Authoritative collections |
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| What do we call it when information is written by famous individuals, scribes, sages, and scribal schools and then read by others? |
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| This version of the Bible contained 24 books (never included Apocrypha)and developed around the 2nd Century BC. |
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| This version of the Bible (The Old Testament) was written out in Greek. It was 39 Books + Apocrypha and developed around the 2nd Century BC. |
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| The Septuagint (Abbreviated as LXX) |
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| This version of the Bible was The Old Testament written out in Latin and included 39 Books + Apocrypha and developed around the late 4th Century AD. |
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| Some version of every book in our Old Testament was found in these documents. They antidated the mt (?) and overshadowed the Septuagint (or LXX). |
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| Who found the Dead Sea Scrolls? |
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| Two Bedovin from the Ta’amireh tribe who sold them to make money. They are still studied today. |
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| Who found the Dead Sea Scrolls? |
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| Two Bedovin from the Ta’amireh tribe who sold them to make money. They are still studied today. |
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| What is the The Toledot Series. |
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| has been described as "one of the most distinct features of Genesis |
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| How is Genesis organized with Toledots? |
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1. The early history of humanity
2. The Prehistory of the Israelite people |
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| Describe the first Toledot Series (The early histor of humanity) |
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1. Heaven and Earth (2:4b-4:26)
2. Adam (5:1-6:8)
3. Noah (6:9-9:29)
4. Noah's three sons (10:1-11:9)
5. Shem (11:10-26) |
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| Describe the second Toledot Series (The Prehistory of the Israelite people) |
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1. Terah (Abraham) (11:27-25:11)
2. Ishmael (25:12-18)
3. Isaac (Jacob) (25:19-35:29)
4. Esau-Edom (36:1-37:1)
5. Jacob (Joseph and his brothers) (37:2-50:26) |
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| Organized by Primeval material (events and people we are unable to date) and the Patriarchal period (events and people we are able to date). |
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| Primeval History consists of what Chapters in Genesis |
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| Patriarchal History consists of what Chapters in Genesis |
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| Genesis 12-50 (Middle Bronze Age 2000-1550 BC) |
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| What are the 5 Creation Theories? |
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1. 24-hour view
2. Prior Creation View
3. Day-age View
4. Literary Approach
5. Gap Theory |
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| Literally 24 hours in creation; young earth, only about 8,000 years old |
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| Explain the Prior Creation View |
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| Adam and Eve aren't mentioned until Chapter 2, there were people before that...we just don't know who they were. It was thought up by theistic evolutionist to ease tentions. |
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| Each day is an "age," not a literal day. Dr. Audirsch likes this one. |
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| Explain the Literary Approach |
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| Water outside (released as rain) the big "sky" bubble, then the livable earth, ground under that, all held up by pillars, within the pillars "under" the Earth is Shoel/Hell |
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| every creation evolved to make themselves into a better species. |
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| getting better, stronger, faster. People intentionally marrying to produce better looking, more athletic people. |
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