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OT Quiz 4 OT Dr. Way
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Baal | Canaanite storm God, deity of agricultural and reproductive fertility |
| Consort | partner or associate, often used as spouse of deity in ANE religious contexts |
| Corpus | collection of related writings |
| Eschatology | theology concerned with end times |
| Levant | lands located along the 400 mile stretch of the Eastern Mediterranean between turkey and Egypt |
| Megilloth | Hebrew for rolls or scrolls 5 books read during annual festivals |
| Mesopotamia | ANE land in the fertile crescent, overlap in wisdom literature |
| Palistrophe | chiastic literary device that inverts or counterbalances key themes hinging u-on one fundamental teaching or idea |
| Provenance | original sources, setting or locale for literary work |
| Retribution principle | righteous prosper, unrighteous suffer |
| Twelve Prophets | Hewbrew designation of the 12 books of the minor prophets in the OT |
| Job | God's wisdom and justice in human suffering. |
| Proverbs | Righteous living through the pursuit of wisdom and the fear of the Lord |
| Ecclesiastes | Futility of searching for meaning in life apart from the fear of God |
| Song of Songs | Celebration of the power and the beauty of love |
| When the battle of Qarqar occurred and who was involved | 853 BC Ahab, Ben-Hadad & king Shalmaneser III of Assyria |
| what was unique about Israelite wisdom literature (in the context of the ancient Near East) | it has a spiritual foundation & it functions as God's self revelation |
| the significance of the Black Obelisk | While this evidence shows Jehu bowing to Shalmaneser III & it would seem demeaning- in 2 kings he is the only northern king to receive righteous evaluation |