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The Old Testament: God’s Relationship with Israel
The New Testament: The life of Jesus and God’s
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| What are the two testaments in the Bible? |
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| t-Torah, n-prophets, k-writings |
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| What is the Tanak, and what does it stand for? |
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| The first five books of the Bible |
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| In what language was the Old Testament (OT) written? |
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| Historical Narrative, Instruction “Law”, Poetry, Prophetic Books |
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| What different types of literature are found in the in the OT? |
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Special Revelation: God’s self-disclosure through Scripture
General Revelation: The disclosure of God’s majesty, power, and glory through the beauty of the natural world |
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| What is the difference between general revelation & special revelation? |
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| God doesn’t have a hand, people do |
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| What is the dictation theory of how God inspired the Bible? |
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| Both humans and God are involved…God has humans do things to be inspired |
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| What is the dynamic theory of how God inspired the Bible? |
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| Process of passing down through mouth and not writing |
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| They were copied by hand and by Scribes |
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| How were biblical scrolls copied and who copied them? |
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| They would misread and then rewrite it wrong |
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| What kinds of mistakes did scribes make with the biblical text? |
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| They confirmed the accuracy of previously known manuscripts |
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| Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls important for the transmission of the Bible? |
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| Dead Sea Scrolls were 1947 |
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| When do the scrolls date to? |
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| A group of Jewish Scribes who copied Biblical texts from 500-1000 A.D. |
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| The standardized Hebrew text-form that became dominant and authoritative in Judaism |
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| What is the Masoretic Text |
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| “A collection of writings accepted by a religious body as authoritative and normative for faith and practice.” |
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| Books considered canonical in Roman Catholicism but not Protestantism |
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| The earliest GREEK translation of the OT |
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Formal Equivalence: attempts to translate biblical languages, literally by preserving the original word order and sentence structure
Dynamic Equivalence: attempts to translate the thought or meaning of the text without a concern to preserve the structure of the biblical languages |
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| What are the two theories of translation, and how do they differ? |
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| “refers to the rules and principles that govern the practice of interpretation” |
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| What does hermeneutics mean? |
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| It affects the culture, language, worldview, thought forms, and geography |
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| How does our historical distance from the Bible affect our interpretation? |
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| Rabbinic commentary on the Mishna |
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| a method of rabbinic interpretation that sought to illuminate the hidden meaning of the Scriptures |
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Assumes that OT events, persons, and concepts foreshadowed later features of the NT
EX: “Jesus is a “type” of high Priest” |
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| What does it mean for interpreters to use a form of interpretation called typology? |
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| Meaning isn’t really what appears to be |
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| Everything is about Jesus… |
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| What does it mean to interpret the OT in a christocentric way? |
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| What is grammatical-historical interpretation? |
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| Different scribe translations…Scribal error |
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| What are textual variants and how do they come about? |
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J-Calls God Jaway
E-Calls God Eleheem
D-Deutoronomy
P-Priestly |
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| Describe the Documentary Hypothesis. What are J, E, D, and P? |
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| Interpretation of the Bible |
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| 6 Days of Creation…Days correspond with one another |
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| What is the Framework Hypothesis of Genesis 1? |
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| Sabbath is God’s Commandment that we should rest on the Sabbath…Rooted in Genesis |
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| What is the Sabbath and what is the biblical command based on? |
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| Not speaking to humans beyond their capacity to understand |
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| What does it mean that God accommodates his revelation to humans? |
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| Account that didn’t have just one God creating the world…Created other Gods before creating the world |
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| How does Genesis 1 differ from the Mesopotamian creation account Enuma Elish? |
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God is transcendent in Genesis 1 & anthropomorphic in Genesis 2-3
Elohim in Genesis 1 vs. Yahweh Elohim in Genesis 2-3 |
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| What evidence is there for two different sources in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2-3? |
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| Adam and Eve disobedience to God |
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| What does the Fall refer to? |
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| Idea that Adam and Eve’s Rebellion affected all of us and we were all born sinful |
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| What is the Christian doctrine of original sin? |
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| What did Cain do in his jealousy towards his brother? |
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| Kings reign for thousands of years… |
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| What is the Sumerian King List, and why is it important for understanding the primeval history (Genesis 1-11)? |
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| Why did God send a flood according to Genesis? |
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| Never again flood the earth |
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| What did God promise in the Noahide Covenant? |
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| Approach the dwelling place of God…Immortality? Pride? |
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| In Genesis 11 what were the people trying to accomplish by building the tower of Babel? |
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| “Therefore, its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth.” |
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| How did God stop their plan? |
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