Collins - Introduction

Question 1

What composes the Hebrew Bible?

Answer 1

Collection of 24 books with 3 divisions

Question 2

What are the three divisions of the Hebrew Bible?

Answer 2

-the law (Torah)
-the prophets (nebi’im)
-the writings ( ketubim)

Question 3

Which was the earliest section to be cemented in the Hebrew Bible?

Answer 3

The Torah (6-5 century BCE)

Question 4

When were the prophets cemented?

Answer 4

2nd century bce

Question 5

When do we start to see a fixed canon?

Answer 5

70-100 ce

Question 6

Why did Hellenistic Jews have more in their canon?

Answer 6

Jews of Alexandria did not set limit to the number of sacred writings

Question 7

Masoretic text

Answer 7

One of the most important manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, established by Ben Asher Family of the Masoretes in Tiberias in Galilee. From the 10 and 11th century ce

Question 8

Aleppo codex

Answer 8

Contains the Masonite manuscript. Now In Jerusalem

Question 9

When were the Dead Sea scrolls discovered?

Answer 9

1947

Question 10

When to the Dead Sea scrolls date to?

Answer 10

300-100 bce

Question 11

Before the Dead Sea scrolls which were the oldest manuscripts?

Answer 11

Greek manuscripts that dated from the 4th century ce

Question 12

Why are there length differences between Greek translations and Hebrew?

Answer 12

Because the Greek translations where likely based off shorter Hebrew manuscripts

Question 13

At what point does biblical history become easier to date?

Answer 13

Exilic period

Question 14

When was the destruction of Samaria?

Answer 14

722

Question 15

When was the capture of Jerusalem?

Answer 15

597

Question 16

When was the destruction of Jerusalem?

Answer 16

586

Question 17

When was the conquest of Babylon by Persia?

Answer 17

539

Question 18

What is the Dueteronomostic history?

Answer 18

Joshua-kings

Question 19

Composite artistry

Answer 19

Robert Alter
Understanding the composites rather than assuming uniformity to understand the whole

Question 20

Excavative scholarship

Answer 20

The attempt to understand the sources to understand the artistry with which they have put together

Question 21

Literary Criticism

Answer 21

Separation of sources that lead to acute obserservations about inner tensions within the text but expected the text to conform to modern expectations.

Julius Wellhausen

Question 22

Form Criticism

Answer 22

Breaks the text into smaller unites, focuses on genre, emphasis on social location

Question 23

Redaction Criticism

Answer 23

The way smaller units were combined by an editor who imposed his own theological agenda. Emphasized later rather than former texts

Gerhard Von Rad and Martin Noth

Question 24

W. F. Albright

Answer 24

American archeologist/biblical scholar. Made extensive use of ANE lit to understand the context of the bible

Question 25

New Criticism

Answer 25

The meaning of a text can be found within the text without questions of social, historical, or literary context

Question 26

New Historicism

Answer 26

Importance of contextual information while still monitoring its focus on the literary text

Question 27

Canonical Approach

Answer 27

The remedy to older scholarship getting caught up in sources rather than the text as we have it

Question 28

Post-Modernism

Answer 28

The skepticism of any attempt to reduce a text to a single meaning

Question 29

Deconstruction

Answer 29

Pulling loose threads in a text to recover suppressed meaning

Question 30

Walter Brueggemann

Answer 30

Postmodernism

Question 31

Gerhard Von Rad and Martin Noth

Answer 31

Redaction Criticism

Question 32

Robert Alter

Answer 32

Composite Artistry

Question 33

Julius Wellhausen

Answer 33

Literary Criticism

Question 34

Herman Gunkel

Answer 34

Form Criticism