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Bible Final
Terms Chapters 8-12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| apocalyptic | adjective used to describe a particular worldview and the literature that arises from it |
| Judgement Oracles | has a negative tone, announces God's pending punishment of either Israel or its enemies |
| Tribute | smaller nations often paid money and other materials to the kinds of powerful empires in order to be left alone |
| vision | describes a variety of religious experience in the prophetic literature |
| call narrative | an account of the prophet's initial experience |
| confession | a series of six or seven poems appear throughout Jeremiah 11-20 in which the prophet protests to God about his burdensome task and the way he is being treated |
| exiles | the period of captivity of the Israelites in Babylon |
| High Places | unauthorized worship sites, devoted to the worship of other gods |
| Megiddo | large plain in the north central region of Israel |
| Pagan | practices and beliefs of other religions |
| Sabbath | the seventh day, used for rest rather than work |
| Salvation Oracles | mostly positive tone about how God will come to deliver Israel from its suffering adn difficulties |
| Sign-act | symbolic actions that were used to communicate a message |
| Acrostic | alphabetic pattern used in Hebrew poetry |
| Allegory | complex story in which multiple imaginative elements represent real persons, placles, or events |
| Aramaic | northwest Semitic language closely related to Hebrew |
| Deportation | carrying of many of the residents of Judah and Babylon |
| Personification | non-personal objects that are portrayed as persons |
| Restoration | numerous aspects of Israel's return to the land and rebuilding of its society after the exile |
| Siege | military strategy that was often used against walled cities in the ancient world |
| Suffering Servant | servant figure portrayed in the four servant songs in Isaiah |
| governor | because the Israelite monarchy was not reestablished, it was ruled by a governor appointed by the Persian Empire |
| memoir | a person's writings about the events of his life, typically in first person |
| Second Temple | the rebuilt temple that replaced Solomon's temple |
| Sukkoth | one of the festivals celebrated by Israel, involved going out into the fields and living in small booths |
| Targumin | when Jewish Scriptures were translated into Aramaic, the unofficial body of Aramaic texts were known as Targumin |
| Torah | law or instructions, first 5 books of Hebrew text |
| Yehud | Jewish homeland after being released from Babylonian captivity was known as Yehud |
| Hallelujah | "Praise Yah", referring to YHWH |
| Hymn of Praise | common type of psalm is present throughout the book of Psalms |
| Imprecatory Psalms | describes the psalms that are very negative |
| Proverbs | sayings, riddles, short stories, and wise sayings |
| Psalms | means prayers, song |
| Retribution Theology | the belief that the righteous who are obedient to God will be blessed, while the wicked will be cursed |
| Theodicy | an attempt to explain the existence of evil and suffering in the world and God's role in the suffering |
| Vanity | an obsession with surface appearances |
| Wisdom | a way of thinking and talking about the world which is embodied in the wisdom literature |
| Chiasm | literary unit that uses matching elements at the beginning and end of each unit and works toward the center |
| Hasmoneans | a succession of Jewish rulers that ruled as an independent Jewish state |
| Hellenistic | used to describe elements of Greek culture that spread throughout the ancient near east with military and political expansion |
| Levirate Marriage | requires a man to marry his brother's widow if his brother dies without pronouncing ah heir |
| Maccabeans | a group of Jewish warriors that rose up to overthrow Greek rule in Palestine |
| Ptolemies | succession of leaders that followed after the rule of Ptolemy |
| Seleucids | succession of leaders that followed after the rule of Seleucus |
| Diaspora | Jewish people being spread across the world, result of the long succession of empires |
| Hasidim | sectarian group that arose during the second and first centuries BCE with Judaism |
| Mishnah | recorded discussions and debates between great rabbis concerning the meaning of the law |
| Qumran | small settlement discovered by archeologists near the Dead Sea, found very close to the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found |
| Pseudepigraphical | "false name", large group of Jewish writings that use false names or those of famous people from the past are known as Pseudepigrapha |
| Sect | smaller, well defined group within a larger religion |
| Talmud | additional rabbinic interpretations of the law |
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