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Lectures - Books of the Bible Flashcards

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Joshua Key Themes
(3)

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  • Israel’s theology of warfare
  • Outsiders become insiders
  • Land distribution
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Joshua Reading Strategies
(5)

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  • Book of Joshua is often ignored (because challenging)
  • Used to justify violence against Palestine
  • Tendency to bring Joshua into contemporary world (spiritual warfare)
  • Faithful reading: don’t place faith in military
  • Use bible atlas for land distribution
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Joshua Setting

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13th or 15th cent

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Joshua Authorship Clues
(3)

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  • Stories may have originated as folk tales
  • May have come together around time of King Josiah
  • Connected with Deut, Jdgs, Sam, Kgs
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Joshua Most Popular Verse

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Joshua 1:9
I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go

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Judges Key Theme
(1)

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Judges Cycle
(6)

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1) Going astray
2) People are oppressed
3) Cry to God
4) God raises up Judge
5) Judge rescues people from what oppressed them
6) Judge dies

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Judges Reading Strategies
(2)

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  • Expect everything to go to hell
  • Why have monarchy?
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Judges Setting

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15th or 13th century
Ends in 11th century

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Judges Authorship
(3)

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  • Judges 5 might be oldest in bible
  • Part of Deuteronomist history (jdgs - kgs)
  • Came together after exile (587)
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Judges Most Popular Verse

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Judges 6:12
The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, “The Lord is with you, you mighty warrior.”

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Ruth Key Themes
(3)

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  • Friendship
  • Immigration
  • Hope
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Ruth Reading Strategies
Things to understand:
(5)

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  • Widows
  • Threshing floors
  • Parenting, levirate marriage, Redeemer
  • Feet
  • Resolution of book
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Ruth Setting

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“Time of judges”
12 or 11th Cent.

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Ruth Authorship

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Counterpoint to Ezra-Nehemiah

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Ruth Most Popular Verse

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Ruth 1:16
Do not press me to leave you,
to turn back from following you!
Where you go, I will go;
where you lodge, I will lodge;
your people shall be my people
and your God my God.

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1st Samuel Setting

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Saul and David

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1st Kings Setting

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Solomon, Israel’s kings, Judah’s kings

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1st Chronicles Setting

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Adam/Eve, Saul, David

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2nd Samuel Setting

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David

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2nd Kings Setting

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Israel’s kings, Judah’s kings, Exile

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2nd Chronicles Setting

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Solomon, Judah Kings, Exile, Return

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Ezra Nehemiah Setting

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Return from Exile

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Samuel and Kings Authorship

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Probably 560-538

25
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Chronicles Authorship

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unknown, after 538

26
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Ezra / Nehemiah Authorship

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unknown, after 433

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Samuel Key Themes
(3)

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  • Monarchy is necessary evil
  • Dangers of power
  • Start and re-start
28
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Samuel Reading Strategies
(2)

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  • Kings more like tribal chiefs than medieval kings
  • Expect more than one perspective
29
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Samuel Most Popular Verse

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1 Sam 17:47
and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not save by sword and spear, for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hand

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Kings Reading Strategies
(2)

A
  • Read with timeline and map
  • See it as a theological history
31
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Kings Key Themes
(5)

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  • More concerned with faithfulness to God than ethics
  • David is awesome
  • Not many good kings
  • Exile slow response to generations of unfaithfulness
  • God likely to side with prophets than kings
32
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Kings Most Popular Verse

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1 King 19:12
and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire, and after the fire a sound of sheer silence

33
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Chronicles Reading Strategies
(1)

A

Read like edition of 1-2 Kings

34
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Chronicles Key Themes
(4)

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  • Same themes as Kings
  • Family Lineage
  • Levites (priestly assistants)
  • Optimistic ending (return from Exile)
35
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Chronicles Most Popular Verse

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2 Chr 7:14
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land

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Ezra / Nehemiah Key Themes
(4)

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  • Struggle to survive
  • Struggle to rebuild temple
  • Struggle to rebuild city walls
  • Foreigners, especially spouses, are bad
37
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Ezra / Nehemiah Reading Strategies
(2)

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  • Literary style matches difficulty of times
  • Keep in canonical context
38
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Ezra / Nehemiah Most Popular Verse

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Neh 8:10
Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions of them to those for whom nothing is prepared, for this day is holy to our Lord, and do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

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Esther Key Themes
(4)

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  • Celebrations
  • Gender
  • Bravery
  • Violence
40
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Esther Reading Strategies
(3)

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  • Expect irony (reversal)
  • Look for invisible hand of God
  • Know about Eunuchs
41
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Esther Setting

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Reign of Persian King Xerxez I
(486-465 BCE)

42
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Esther Authorship

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4th or 3rd cent.

43
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Esther Most Popular Verse

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Esther 4:16
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.

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Proverbs Key Themes
(3)

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  • The wise and the fool
  • Day-to-day realities
  • Emotions and desires
45
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Proverbs Reading Strategies
(3)

A
  • Right word for right situation
  • Navigating Gender issues
  • Context: less important than usual
46
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Proverbs Setting

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Most parts don’t relate to specific time in history

47
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Proverbs Authorship
(4)

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  • Unknown
  • Solomon
  • Hezekiah
  • Ahur and King Lemuel’s Mother
48
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Proverbs Most Popular Verse

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Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths.

49
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Ecclesiastes Key Themes
(3)

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  • Everything is a fleeting breath
  • Nothing Endures
  • Joy comes from the small things
50
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Ecclesiastes Reading Strategies
(3)

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  • Expect tensions and contradictions
  • Let Qohelet teach the value of humility
  • Let Qohelet expand the borders of faith
51
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Ecclesiastes Setting

A

Not tied to specific time

52
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Ecclesiastes Authorship

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the book re-posts the words of someone called Qohelet or “the Teacher”

53
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Ecclesiastes Most Popular Verse

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Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover, he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

54
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Job Key Themes
(2)

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  • The problem of suffering
  • God’s unknowability
55
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Job Reading Strategies
(3)

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  • Prologue and Epilogue easy reading, but great stuff in between
  • Take Prologue as “suppose this happened” instead of truth
  • Job’s friends are stock characters, not with individual perspective
56
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Job Setting

A

None given

57
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Job Authorship

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Language is very rare
Possibly 6th to 4th centuries

58
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Job Most Popular Verse

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Job 1:21
Naked I came from my mother’s womb; naked I will return there. The Lord has given, the Lord has taken, bless the Lord’s name

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