Midterm Pt.1

Question 1

What does maturity mean in Greek wisdom?

Answer 1

Becoming a productive citizen to further the polis.

Question 2

How does prose differ from poetry?

Answer 2

Prose follows chronological time; poetry has a more fluid sense of time.
Prose separates the writer and reader; poetry draws the reader in.

Question 3

What are the four types of poetry in the Old Testament?

Answer 3

Love, Prophetic, Wisdom, Cultic.

Question 4

What are the types of parallelism?

Answer 4

Synthetic, Synonymous, Antithetical, Staircase, Specification, External.

Question 5

What determines Hebrew poetry?

Answer 5

Parallelism,
Terseness,
Word pair usage,
Rhythm

Question 6

Colon

Answer 6

A line of poetry

Question 7

Bicola/Tricola

Answer 7

Two/three-line poetic units

Question 8

Strophe/Stanza

Answer 8

Groupings of poetic lines

Question 9

Inclusio

Answer 9

A repeated phrase at the beginning and end of a section

Question 10

Chiasmus:

Answer 10

A mirrored structure in writing

Question 11

Acrostic

Answer 11

Alphabetical poem

Question 12

Anthropomorphism:

Answer 12

Giving God human traits

Question 13

Hokmah/Sophia:

Answer 13

Hebrew and Greek words for wisdom

Question 14

Merismus:

Answer 14

Using two extremes to imply a whole (e.g., “heaven and earth”)

Question 15

Monotheism/Henotheism/Polytheism/Monolatry:

Answer 15

Different views of God and gods

Question 16

Name five figures of speech or types of parallelism in the Bible.

Answer 16

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, Euphemism.

Question 17

Bishop Robert Lowth:

Answer 17

Studied Hebrew poetry and parallelism.

Question 18

James Kugel & Michael O’Conner:

Answer 18

Scholars on biblical poetry.

Question 19

Adele Berlin:

Answer 19

Expert on biblical narrative and poetry.

Question 20

Ahithophel & Hushai:

Answer 20

Advisors in the time of Absalom.