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Old Testament intro
Question | Answer |
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how many and who wrote them? | 39 books; prophets, priests, kings, and leaders from Israel wrote them |
Describe the flow of the OT | Creation Fall Judgement Fathers of the chosen nation History of Israel |
What is the history of Israel? | Exile in Egypt, Exodus and wandering, conquest of canaan, judges lead, united kingdom, divided kingdom, exile in babylon, return an building of land |
What are the 5 ideas that make up the OT? | Law, History, Wisdom, Major prophets, and Minor prophets |
What is the character of god? | makes man and makes himself known to man (his holiness and perfection is revealed through this) |
How is God Revealed? | creation angels miracles visions spoken word by prophets written scripture (OT) |
Gods judgement for sin and disobedience | 2 chapters dont deal with sin (genesis 1-2) shows devastation caused by disobedience to God's law |
Gods blessing for faith and obedience | repentance from sin blesses faith blesses obedience to his word |
Sacrifice for sin | Genesis- seed of woman will destroy satan mosaic law- sacrifice prophets- suffering |
Kingdom of glory | kingdom ruled by Messiah salvation of israel salvation of gentiles resurrection of dead new heaven and earth |
Difference between Torah and Holy Scriptures | Chronicles in history vs. writings in torah former and later prophets in torah/ major and minor in scripture writings in torah vs. poetry and wisdom in scripture |
where did the OT begin, how and where did it expand to? | started in Palestine, some went to babylon and some went to Egypt. Ezra created "Old Palestinian" text (babylon text and possibly one that remained in Palestine) |
What did egypt do in the textual development? | developed a form of "old Palestinian"called the "proto-Septuagint" in hebrew |
What did the people in Babylon do in textual development? | created the text "Proto- Masoretic" |
What happened when all 3 texts came back to Palestine? | "Samaritan recension" was developed but each text continued to be used in its own form. |