Final Test Flashcards
(38 cards)
In what three languages is the Bible written?
Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic
Who was Huldah
A prophetess who decide that Deuteronomy was word of God. Spole of the king as “that man” – did not see him as someone special
What’s going on with the so-called “Curse of Ham”?
Noah cursing the canonizes, used to justify slavery in modern times. Racist passage in context.
Its the so called curse of Ham because his decedents get cursed but he doesn’t.
What do you find striking about Psalm 137?
Horrible impulse that was not censored by jewish scribes. God accepts all emotions
Orthodoxy
Right teaching, right opinion
Proleptic
representing the future now
septuagint
greek, old translation of the Bible that appears whenever the New Testament quotes the oOld testament
Enuma Elish
Older than Genesis. Non-Jewish creation story. seems to be a lot of the source for Genesis
Israel
“wrestles with God”
Day of the Lord
Not the day the world ends, the day he makes everything right.
Lex Talionis
Right of Retaliation (eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth)
Deuteronomy
Hulda stated it was part of the word of God
Satan
Hebrew for accuser
Theophany
A vision of God
Orthopraxy
“right practice”
Theodicy
why God lets evil happen
“She is more in the right than I”
Genesis 38:26
Tamar, Judah
significant because women were never considered more righteous than men during this time
“And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”
Jonah 4:11
Here is God saying “come on Jonah, you cared about a tree… isn’t it okay for me to care about more than 100,000 people?” Jonah hating god for loving his people
“Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs a new forth, do you no perceive it?”
Isaiah 4319
» universalistic in a way that people don’t like. God is going to conquer death. God is going to command that people don’t make war anymore. This is prophecy of Isaiah. Isaiah is saying that God is saying this. Important because it is a prophet doing what a prophet has always done.. > God says forget all that. Means: don’t focus on the old stuff in a way that you don’t perceive the new stuff God is saying.
“They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat.”
Isaiah 65:17… its about labor relations. The people who build the houses will be able to afford the houses they are building. The world would be “correct” in its labor. “my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands”. They work for themselves. Freed from slavery and exploitation. God is saying that he iswith the Jewish people as they try to achieve a higher moral standard.
In what sense is the Book of Proverbs to be viewed as a series of generalizations?
*Its contradictions with the two proverbs side by side. “Never speak to a fool in his folling” “Always speak to a fool in his folling.
What happened between Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, and Baruch?
Jeremiah wrote stories. Baruch was his scribe. Jehoiakim was the king that burn the scroll because he didn’t like what Jeremiah wrote.
What surprisingly dim view of blessedness does the primary speaker within Ecclesiastes espouse?
Those who were never born are more blessed than the living.
What’s the difference between prophetic consciousness and royal consciousness?
Prophetic mean “The earth is the Lord’s. Oppress the poor.
Royal mean “ The way things are/ should be.
