Unit Test 3

Question 1

Who was the last king of the united monarchy?

Answer 1

Solomon

Question 2

Who was Elijah’s successor?

Answer 2

Elisha

Question 3

Who became the first king of the northern nation of Israel?

Answer 3

Jeroboam

Question 4

Bandstra says that the book of Kings traces the line of kings from David to:

Answer 4

the exile

Question 5

Bandstra says the Deuteronomistic historian has a bias against the kings of:

Answer 5

Israel

Question 6

What was the name of the Canaanite god challenged by Elijah on Mount Carmel?

Answer 6

Baal

Question 7

Which son of Solomon ascended the throne following Solomon’s death?

Answer 7

Rehoboam

Question 8

What did Naboth refuse to sell to Ahab?

Answer 8

his vineyard

Question 9

What was the name of Ahab’s wife?

Answer 9

Jezebel

Question 10

What was Solomon’s greatest building project?

Answer 10

the temple

Question 11

Amos, Hosea, and Micah all lived in which century?

Answer 11

8th

Question 12

Amos transforms the concept of the “day of YHWH” from a time of celebration of God’s victory over Israel’s enemies to:

Answer 12

a time of dread before YHWH’s judgment

Question 13

Who was told to go preach to the people of Nineveh?

Answer 13

Jonah

Question 14

Bandstra says that the book of Isaiah is “widely recognized to consist of “how many subcollections?

Answer 14

3

Question 15

“Zion” refers (in whole or in part) to the city of:

Answer 15

Jerusalem

Question 16

What is the meaning of “Immanuel”?

Answer 16

God is with us

Question 17

What does Bandstra say was the sort of theology that “legitimated the royal house”?

Answer 17

Zion theology

Question 18

Who is the king rebuked by Isaiah in the last chapter of First Isaiah?

Answer 18

Hezekiah

Question 19

Who was a prophet in the south who earnestly criticized “the opportunistic and heartless upper class,” suggesting that he “may have been one of the farmers who was threatened by the influential aristocracy”?

Answer 19

Micah

Question 20

Who was told to “take yourself a promiscuous woman and have children of promiscuity”?

Answer 20

Hosea

Question 21

Another name of Babylonians of the Neo-Babylonian period is:

Answer 21

Chaldeans

Question 22

According to Deuteronomistic Historians, the best ruler (other than David) was:

Answer 22

Josiah

Question 23

What is the name of a priest taken to Babylon in the first deportation of 598 BCE, who received his call to be a prophet in Babylon and exercised his entire prophetic ministry while in exile in Babylon?

Answer 23

Ezekiel

Question 24

Which prophet preached a “Temple Sermon”?

Answer 24

Jeremiah

Question 25

Which prophet, according to Bandstra, wrote a "set of autobiographical passages that provides insight into the prophet's inner feelings about God and his calling?

Answer 25

Jeremiah

Question 26

Which prophet engaged in a series of symbolic actions to illustrate his sermons, including making a clay model of Jerusalem, laying on his side for an extended period, eating a scroll, and shaving his head?

Answer 26

Ezekiel

Question 27

Which prophetic book consists of an oracle denouncing Ninevah?

Answer 27

Nahum

Question 28

Which prophet, according to Bandstra, probably prophesied between 640 and 622 BCE and echoes the emphasis in Amos on the Day of YHWH as a sad day of God's people?

Answer 28

Zephaniah

Question 29

Which prophet, according to Bandstra, "questions how YHWH could use the evil Babylonians to punish his own covenant people" (questions the justice of God)?

Answer 29

Habakkuk

Question 30

Which biblical book was apparently found in the Temple in 622 BCE and sparked a reform movement?

Answer 30

Deuteronomy

Question 31

What is the shortest book of the Old Testament?

Answer 31

Obadiah

Question 32

Which book urges the completion of the work of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem?

Answer 32

Haggai

Question 33

Which book predicted the return of the prophet Elijah and is the last book in the Book of the 12?

Answer 33

Malachi

Question 34

Which book is composed of two sections, one from the 6th c BCE and the other from a later period (3rd-4th C)?

Answer 34

Zechariah

Question 35

Which book is from a "cult prophet" supportive of the priesthood and temple, has as its central theme the "day of YHWH," speaks of the pouring out of God's spirit, and has affinities with apocalyptic literature?

Answer 35

Joel

Question 36

Which book contains servant poems?

Answer 36

2nd Isaiah

Question 37

Which book contains a vision of a valley of dry bones?

Answer 37

Ezekiel

Question 38

Which book was written during the time of the restoration but prior to the rebuilding of the Temple, and "sought to keep the faith of the people alive" during difficult times?

Answer 38

3rd Isaiah

Question 39

What collection of books spans a historical range of some 400 years, including the Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian periods?

Answer 39

Book of the Twelve

Question 40

What Persian ruler is called a messiah by the second Isaiah?

Answer 40

Cyrus

Question 41

Which letter of "Tanak" represents the third major division of the Hebrew Bible? What is the Hebrew name for that division?

Answer 41

K - Ketuvim

Question 42

Together, the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles are known as the:

Answer 42

Chronicler's History

Question 43

Which book is a book of devotional and liturgical literature?

Answer 43

Psalms

Question 44

Which book is an example of apocalyptic literature?

Answer 44

Daniel

Question 45

Which book is part of the Five scrolls?

Answer 45

Ruth

Question 46

Which book is an example of wisdom literature?

Answer 46

Proverbs

Question 47

According to Bandstra, what is the point at which the history of Judaism begins?

Answer 47

the exile

Question 48

What does Bandstra say is the name used by scholars to refer to the period between 515 BCE and 70 CE?

Answer 48

Second Temple Judaism

Question 49

What is the Diaspora?

Answer 49

the scattering of Jews following the exile

Question 50

The concept of tsaddia or "righteous one," is found in what type of biblical literature?

Answer 50

wisdom literature

Question 51

How many types of psalms does Bandstra mention?

Answer 51

more than 10

Question 52

How many main sections does the book of Pslams have?

Answer 52

5

Question 53

Name two of the kinds of parallelism found in the Psalms.

Answer 53

synonymous/antithetical/formal/climactic

Question 54

What is the type or genre that describes most of the psalms in the Old Testament?

Answer 54

lament or complaint

Question 55

What are imprecation psalms?

Answer 55

psalms that call for God's curses against others

Question 56

Bandstra says that the Psalter dates to what period?

Answer 56

post monarchy/post-exilic

Question 57

Which book presumes the preexistence and immortality of the soul?

Answer 57

Wisdom of Solomon

Question 58

Which book presents a theodicy?

Answer 58

Job

Question 59

Which book is also known as Ecclesiasticus?

Answer 59

Sirach

Question 60

Which book, according to Bandstra, seems to have connections with ancient Egyptian literature?

Answer 60

Proverbs

Question 61

Which book includes the figure of "the satan"

Answer 61

Job

Question 62

Which books are part of the Apocrypha?

Answer 62

Wisdom of Solomon and Sirach

Question 63

What is retribution theology?

Answer 63

righteous behavior will be rewarded and unrighteous behavior will be punished

Question 64

What is the name of the place where all go when they die, according to the perspective of Job?

Answer 64

Sheol

Question 65

Which book contains dialogues?

Answer 65

Job

Question 66

Which book personifies wisdom as a respectable/proper woman and folly as a loose woman?

Answer 66

Proverbs

Question 67

Which book does Bandsta say has 3 distinguishable characters: a male lover, a female lover, and "an independent group of observers called the daughters of Jerusalem"?

Answer 67

Song of Songs

Question 68

Which book has the main character a woman from Moab?

Answer 68

Ruth

Question 69

Which book consists of five poems (four of which are acrostics)?

Answer 69

Lamentations

Question 70

Which book is part of the Old Testament's wisdom literature?

Answer 70

Ecclesiastes

Question 71

Which book provides an explanation for the origin of the Jewish celebration of Purim?

Answer 71

Esther

Question 72

Which book has a speaker named Qohelet?

Answer 72

Ecclesiastes

Question 73

Which book describes a man who goes blind when he sleeps outside one night and bird dung falls in his eyes?

Answer 73

Tobit

Question 74

Which book is an edited version of a book in the Old Testament; the Hebrew version does not mention God, but this version, which appeared in the Greek Septuagint, includes mention of God?

Answer 74

Additions to Esther

Question 75

Which book tells the story of a Jewish widow who saves the Jews by beheading the commander of the Assyrian army?

Answer 75

Judith

Question 76

Which book includes a character named Boaz?

Answer 76

Ruth