Introduction - Midterm Flashcards
What story presented in the narratives of Israel’s scriptures provides the framework to rightly understand the gospel of Messiah?
The story of the kingdom, exile, and return (p.1)
What is a narrative?
Refers to characters within a setting who overcome obstacles toward resolution (p.1)
What analogy do ancient covenants operate by?
Two people who are not kin becoming kin (p.2)
What is a “residing foreigner”?
Refers to one who sought refuge in Israel and who submitted to the covenant of Israel such as through circumcision (p.2)
What is a “foreigner”?
Refers to ethnic others who did not seek to assimilate into Israel. They did not take covenantal circumcision and did not submit to Yahweh’s teachings. They may have been hostile, indifferent, or friendly toward Israel (p.2).
What does torah mean?
With a lowercase t, it means instruction or teaching (p.3)
What do we need to know about using BCE to date Old Testament events?
It means Before the Common Era, and they count down to the time of the Messiah (p.3)
What is the Old Testament?
Refers to the first section of the Christian Bible. Referred to as Torah and Prophets or Torah, Prophets and Psalms (p.3).
What is the Septuagint (LXX)?
The Greek translation of the Old Testament (p.3)
How much time passed between an event and when an author wrote about it in a biblical narrative?
Dates of authorship of biblical narratives are often a long time after the events in the narratives (p.4)
How is the Christian sequence of historical narrative books different from the Judaic sequence?
In the Christian sequence, most of the narratives were collected in more or less chronological order (p.5)
What ancient version of Israel’s scriptures is the sequence apparently adopted by the Christian Old Testament?
The Septuagint (p.5)
Which two biblical books in the Writings of the Judaic tradition appear among the prophetic books in the Christian tradition?
Lamentations and Daniel (p.5)
Why were the narratives of Samuel, Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and Chronicles each broken into two parts?
The scrolls were long and difficult to use (p.5)
What is the purpose of the four-part serial known as the Deuteronomistic narrative?
The serial narrates the rise and fall of the Hebrew kingdoms through the covenantal lens of Deut. (pg. 5-6)
Why had exiles previously believed that the kingdom could not fall?
The kingdom could not fall because of God’s forever promises to Abraham and David (pg. 6)
According to the Deuteronomistic narrative, why was exile necessary?
God’s faithfulness to the covenant with his people made exile necessary (pg. 6)
What gap in the book of Joshua does the Judges story grow out of?
The gap between God’s fidelity to give the land and Israel’s failure to obey (pg 6)
What is the centerpiece of God’s redemptive plan within the entirety of Israel’s scriptures?
The narrative spelled out in the books of 1-2 Samuel (David’s Kingship) (pg. 6)
What are the Old Testament narratives of exile and restoration?
Ruth, Daniel, and Esther (pg 6)
What is the focus of Chronicles?
Chronicles sets the story of the Davidic kingdom and its support for the temple within the entire Old Testament story line (pg. 7)
What is a benefit of focusing on biblical connections?
These connections offer a concrete way to think with the biblical authors as well the people in their stories (pg. 7)
According to Schnittjer, how should gospel connections be found in the Old Testament?
There is no need to “find Jesus in every verse” throughout the Old Testament. We want to think BIG PICTURE: Gospel connections must unfold from the redemptive structure of the narrative. (pg. 7).
When studying the Bible, how do many important life connections begin?
Important life connections begin within the framework of the narrative of Israel’s Scriptures. The O.T. “was written for our instruction” (1 Cor. 10:11). (pg. 7)
