Old Testament Study Guide

Religion Guide Final Exam Study of the Old Testament

Your review will begin with a 10 question post-test, covering what I want
You've learned over the past semester. The majority of the review will
Cover what we have studied since the last test.

Occupation:
The wisdom literature, where good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people is not respected in employment.
Theodicy-the argument in defense of God's goodness despite the existence of evil.
God speeches of Job
Job 3 friends (especially their belief that employment must have sinned)
Satan

Second Temple period (see document):
Rebuilding the temple
Ezra / Nehemiah
Esther / Persian period
Hellenization
Maccabees and Hanukkah
Antiochus Epiphanes IV

Daniel:
Apocalyptic Literature and its characteristics "He warned about the disastrous results, the future.
escatology
Main theme / message of apocalyptic literature
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and the golden statue
Daniel and the Lion's Den (why was he therea)
Apocrypha
Daniel and textual criticism (especially about the problem of language)

** Psalms:
hallelujah


Ruth
Naomi
redeemer
David ancestor

Esther
Mordecai
Haman
Xerxes
know that there are differences between the LXX and MT.


Discussion: Discuss how the book of Daniel deals
issue of life faithfully in a pagan world. Why is this issue
were so important to the historical situation in which
Daniel was writtena Be sure to include both the court stories (1-6)
and the apocalyptic section (7-12) in your discussion. (A complete response
include information on the historical period in which Daniel was
writing at least one example of each section of the book of Daniel
itself.)

Extra Credit: List of 39 books of the Old Testament in their Old
traditional Protestant order .* full credit will be 10 points, I give
partial credit, about 1 / 4 of a point each.
* If you prefer a different list traditional, you have to let me
know! You can not make your own order.

Post-test examination: "Will" (what does that meana) Passover
Documentary hypothesis (JEPD), the language of the Old Testament, Hagar,
historical situation of the book of Judges, Davidic Covenant, Isaiah
ethical monotheism, of the Babylonian exile, the Messiah

Departure Yale Open Course (link on the website below). You probably do not want to listen to all these books and lectures on topics, but I'm pretty confident, they provide transcripts.

For 39 pounds, I recommend you check some videos on YouTube where they are set to music. I have a link to it below. The videos are usually cheese, but they must be good for your memory.