Test #2/Second half of Final

Introduction
-​ OT is divided into Law (Torah), Prophets (Nevi’im), and Writings (Ketuvim)
-​ Canon is part of the Bible
-​ Pentateuch is name for Torah/Law

Genesis
-​ Day 1 is light and dark, day and night
-​ Day 2 is separation of waters above and below to create the sky and make a basis for the
sea
-​ Day 3 is the seas and dry land
-​ Day 4 is celestial bodies
-​ Day 5 is creatures of sea and sky
-​ Day 6 is animals and humans
-​ Toledoth means generations or descendants, and is used to divide the book of Genesis
into new parts
-​ IMAGO DEI and nature of male and female are related, bearers of God’s image. Male
and female are partners with complementary roles
-​ Adam naming animals is part of Dominion Mandate
-​ Eve was enticed by good for food-ness, beauty, and possibility of wisdom

Exodus
-​ Moses means Drawn Out
-​ Exodus 2:23-24 is when God acts on the Abrahamic Covenant and intervenes
-​ I Am
-​ River of Blood
-​ Frogs
-​ Gnats and lice
-​ Flies
-​ Livestock
-​ Boils
-​ Burning hail
-​ Locusts
-​ Darkness
-​ Death of the firstborn

Leviticus
-​ Leviticus means About the Levites
-​ Leviticus 11:44-45 (Be holy, for I am Holy) shows up in 1 Peter 1:15-16
Deuteronomy
-​ Means Second Law
-​ Moses gives guidance before the other Israelites enter, for he cannot

Joshua
-​ Joshua means “Yahweh saves”
-​ Describes 1406 to 1375 BC
-​ Chapter 24, stone raised up at Shechem and people agree to obey God

Judges
-​ The four-fold cycle of Judges is apostasy, oppression, repentance, and deliverance
-​ 1200 to 1000 BC, beginning at Joshua’s death and ending at Saul’s crowning

1 and 2 Samuel
-​ Eli’s sin was not punishing his sons, Hophni and Phineas, who committed various crimes
against God
-​ Samuel is one of the last great judges/prophets
-​ Wanting a king rejects God’s power, but God allowed it to happen to punish them
-​ Saul did not fully destroy the Alakites, keeping King Agag and the best livestock alive
-​ Centralizes worship, establishes Jerusalem as a holy city and as the capital
-​ Establishes that David’s line and throne will always be connected, and this establishes the
precedent for the Messiah, Jesus, to be born of David’s line
-​ Jesus. Matthew 1:1, Mark 12:35, Luke 1:32
-​ Temple relates to Garden of Eden, Christians becoming dwelling place for Holy Spirit

1 and 2 Kings
-​ Saul, David, and Solomon were the first three kings
-​ Wise and understanding mind to govern God’s people
-​ He faced political opposition from his brother Adonijah and established the bad practice
of political alliance through marriage
-​ Southern Kingdom (Judah) led by Rehoboam and has the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
Northern kingdom (Israel) was led by Jeroboam and had remaining ten.
-​ King Josiah began reform when a priest found the Book of Law and he realized that they
were disobeying God’s commands.

Wisdom Literature
-​ Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, and Song of Solomon
-​ Fear of the Lord, importance of moral and righteous living, value and pursuit of wisdom,
exploration of universal human experiences like suffering, vanity, and the meaning of
 life. Contrasts between wisdom and foolishness, practical guides for daily life and ethical
behavior.
-​ Faith seeking understanding means that spiritual and intellectual growth begin with God
and don’t end with it
-​ Wide easy way and narrow hard way
-​ Contrast between God’s teachings and worldly teachings
-​ Worship and praise, laments, trust in God, and the Sovereignty of God are the main
themes in Psalms.
-​ Synonymous parallelism (repeated ideas, synonyms), antithetic (contrasted ideas in
further lines), synthetic (builds an idea more as lines go), climactic (builds to a point),
chiastic (a-b-b-a pattern)
-​ Proverbs, poems, and narratives on how to live well versus an overall narrative of the
covenant and laws laid down
-​ Job
-​ Initial piety and prosperity
-​ Satan challenges God and Job
-​ Loss and suffering
-​ Job’s friends are dicks
-​ Elihu intervenes and is right af
-​ God speaks to Job
-​ Job repents
-​ Restoration
-​ God asks about Creation and whether Job was there or not, highlighting his limited
understanding as a human. Job repents, admitting God is right.
-​ God and Israel as man and woman, Christ and Church as man and woman, just God’s
views and rules and stuff about romance in the context of a human romance
-​ Vanity of life without God, futility of worldly pursuits, inevitability of Death, importance
of enjoying life and fearing God are key themes in Ecclesiastes
-​ Vanity as vapor, breath, or futility
-​ The best thing a man can do is fear God and keep His commandments

Job
-​ Job takes a narrow path, which is hard. He is blessed for keeping his part of the covenant
with God.

Psalms
-​ Psalm means song
-​ Relating to earthly and divine authority. We are to follow earthly authority unless it
conflict with our faith, and those authorities are held accountable by God.
-​ The Messiah is spoken of in Psalm 110
 -​ Love as the motive for obedience, freedom through obedience, creates a changed heart in
Psalm 119

Proverbs
-​ Wisdom and fear of the Lord, diligence, versus laziness, honesty versus dishonesty,
humility versus pride
-​ Sluggard on his bed like a door on its hinges, hand buried in food but too tired to eat,
field of a lazy person covered in thorns
-​ Devotion to God, diligence, wisdom, compassion
-​ Words of righteous are fountain, words of wicked are swords and arrows, gracious
truthful kind words are medicine and honeycomb, lips are like a small fire, lips spouting
knowledge are like treasure and silver, fool’s mouth is their own snare, timely word is
beautiful artwork

Ecclesiastes

Song of Solomon

Prophets Intro
-​ 8th century to 4th century BC
-​ Spokesperson chosen by God to impart divine truths and wisdom
-​ Jesus is referred to in Deuteronomy 18, being compared to Moses
-​ To call them back to His laws in times of disobedience

Isaiah
-​ Major prophet during the fall of Israel to Assyria, urging people to trust God over foreign
allies. He also prophesied the coming of Jesus
-​ Begins around 740 BC with the death of King Uzziah, continued through the rule of four
kings
-​ To Judah
-​ Servant’s exaltation, disfigurement, suffering as atonement, silent death, and justification
and triumph
-​ Remnant refers to a small group that will be preserved because of their faith

Jeremiah
-​ Prophet from 650 to 570, predicted Babylonian invasion
-​ Weeping prophet
-​ Laments and warnings and calls back to God
 -​ Almond tree: God is watching and will hasten His judgement
-​ Boiling pot over the north: Invasion of armies and disaster
-​ Ruined land: what’s about to happen to Judah
-​ Baskets of figs: Good basket is those already in Babylon, who will be preserved. Bad
basket is those who remain in Jerusalem, who will be judged
-​ Cup of wrath: Universal judgement on sinful nations
-​ New covenant, laws are written on hearts and not tablets, better mediator in Jesus rather
than Moses, complete forgiveness of all iniquity, full belief, spiritual relationship

Ezekiel
-​ Prophet and priest in exile, prophetic messages through words and sign acts
-​ 593 to 570 BC
-​ Ezekiel means God Strengthens
-​ Jewish exiles in Babylon
-​ The recognition formula is “You shall know that I am Yahweh.” Divine right
-​ Not truly self-centered, as God is sovereign and his want at recognition is not pride but
establishment of law over a rebellious creation
-​ Ezekiel 36:26-27 is a promise to change someone. Remove heart of stone and replace it
with a heart of flesh. Renewed spirit, empowerment to obey, gift of grace given.

Daniel
-​ Prophet during Babylonian exile, and a wise man in the employ of the Babylonian king
and later Darius the Mede
-​ Daniel means God is my judge
-​ Babylonians and exiled Jews
-​ Four statues as four future kingdoms, and four beasts as four future empires: winged lion
for Babylon, lopsided bear with three ribs in its mouth for Medo-Persia, four headed and
winged leopard for Macedon/Greece, and beast with iron teeth and ten horns for Rome
-​ Son of Man receives ancient authority and is given an everlasting kingdom. Jesus

Minor Prophets
-​ Shorter length makes minor
-​ Joel, Amos, and Hoseah are pre-exilic
-​ Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi are post-exilic
-​ Twelve refers to twelve minor prophets

Jonah
-​ Jonah fled to Tarshish, but was eaten by a great fish for three days and three nights. He
went to Nineveh, and prophesied. The city repented and was spared.
Hosea
-​ Gomer, who was unfaithful. Represents God’s relationship with Israel.

Habakkuk
-​ God’s justice and importance of living by faith. Paul quotes Habakkuk 2:4 in Romans.
The righteous shall live by faith

Joel
-​ Day of the Lord

Malachi
-​ Malachi ends with a prophecy that Elijah will be sent before the Day of the Lord to
reconcile the hearts of fathers and children, lest the land be struck with a curse
-​ Mark identifies John the Baptist as the foretold messenger, and Jesus as the coming lord.