Survey of the Old Testament 1

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This is the first few questions of the study guide quiz 1

  1. 1

    What is the primary objective of the Old Testament?

  2. 2

    The important Hebrew word for God's divine loyalty is

  3. 3

    What is the "core concept" of the Old Testament?

  4. 4

    The authority of the Bible derives from the fact that it is what kind of revelation?

  5. 5

    What are the procedures of interpretation outlined?

  6. 6

    Identify the name which signified a "land of purple" and was probably derived from the purple dye manufactured from the murex shellfish found in abundance alon the Mediterranean coast

  7. 7

    Identify the name of the people from which the land of Palestine took its name (the Pelishtim in Hebrew).

  8. 8

    What is the "theological significance" of the land of Palestine for Israel?

  9. 9

    Which Babylonian king was best known for his collection of laws--considered to be the best such collection recovered from the ancient Near East?

  10. 10

    Jerusalem was conquered, sacked and destroyed, with its people deprted in 587-6 BC under the onslaught of what empire?

  11. 11

    The text of the Old Testament was originally written in which language?

  12. 12

    Identify the ancient Jewish scholars who improved word divisions and added the vowel pointing to the Hebrew Old Testament--and for whom the important collection Hebrew manuscrips is named

  13. 13

    Identify the 4 states in the process of fromal canon formation in the Old Testament.

  14. 14

    Identify the title (acronym) for the Hebrew bible that reflects its threefold as torah, nebiim, and ketubim.

  15. 15

    Identify which OT books wre disputed or called antilegomena (spoken against) regarding their inclusion in the canon.

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