EXAM I STUDY GUIDE
EXAM I STUDY GUIDE
CHR 101
1. Kinds of truth
a. literal – “historical” truth, or what really happened
b. literary – what author affirms about God and human existence
c. contemporary – the truth of the text for our day
2. Exile
a. Babylonian – Babylon invades Jerusalem, destroying the city and Temple, and deported people (587 BCE)
b. responses to Exile (creative time):
i. Literary creativity – Torah is collected and canonized. 1st 5 books of exile (JEDP), former (Deueteronomic histoty) and latter (books of people we think of as prophets) prophets, Talmud (commentary on Law/Torah to be written), new lit. ii. Institutional c. – synagogue (new community centers of worship and instruction to gather, after destruction of Temple), emergence of rabbi as “teachers” (form of priest), with restoration came special emphasis on keeping law (preserving identity, i.e. Sabbath and purity) iii. Doctrinal c. – monotheism of God (existence of only one during the exile again); innovations such as full-fledged afterlife, existence of spiritual beings (angels)
3. Chronology
a. Eras – ancestors, conquest, division of Israel (N and S kingdoms), N Israel falls to Assyria, Babylon takes over and deport, destruction of Jerusalem and Temple, restoration under Persia
b. Empires – Egypt, Philistines, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece
4. Hebrew Bible as Literature
a. Hebrew Bible
i. 24 books in 3 parts (Law/Torah, Prophets/Navim, Writings/Kethuvim), ii. begins with creation of universe, begin of Jews, ends with restoration (hope) and rebuilding of new J state
Christian OT iii. 39 books, 4 parts (Pentateuch, History, Poetry and Wisdom, Prophecy) iv. begins with creation of universe, begin of Jews, end with prophecy (book of Malachi)
b. Types of lit. in TNK
i. Historical, legal, poetry, prophetic oracle ii. Myth = stories that communicate truths about human existence symbolically but aren’t literally true iii. Apocalyptic = types of lit. that warns us of future events, which full meaning
CHR 101
1. Kinds of truth
a. literal – “historical” truth, or what really happened
b. literary – what author affirms about God and human existence
c. contemporary – the truth of the text for our day
2. Exile
a. Babylonian – Babylon invades Jerusalem, destroying the city and Temple, and deported people (587 BCE)
b. responses to Exile (creative time):
i. Literary creativity – Torah is collected and canonized. 1st 5 books of exile (JEDP), former (Deueteronomic histoty) and latter (books of people we think of as prophets) prophets, Talmud (commentary on Law/Torah to be written), new lit. ii. Institutional c. – synagogue (new community centers of worship and instruction to gather, after destruction of Temple), emergence of rabbi as “teachers” (form of priest), with restoration came special emphasis on keeping law (preserving identity, i.e. Sabbath and purity) iii. Doctrinal c. – monotheism of God (existence of only one during the exile again); innovations such as full-fledged afterlife, existence of spiritual beings (angels)
3. Chronology
a. Eras – ancestors, conquest, division of Israel (N and S kingdoms), N Israel falls to Assyria, Babylon takes over and deport, destruction of Jerusalem and Temple, restoration under Persia
b. Empires – Egypt, Philistines, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece
4. Hebrew Bible as Literature
a. Hebrew Bible
i. 24 books in 3 parts (Law/Torah, Prophets/Navim, Writings/Kethuvim), ii. begins with creation of universe, begin of Jews, ends with restoration (hope) and rebuilding of new J state
Christian OT iii. 39 books, 4 parts (Pentateuch, History, Poetry and Wisdom, Prophecy) iv. begins with creation of universe, begin of Jews, end with prophecy (book of Malachi)
b. Types of lit. in TNK
i. Historical, legal, poetry, prophetic oracle ii. Myth = stories that communicate truths about human existence symbolically but aren’t literally true iii. Apocalyptic = types of lit. that warns us of future events, which full meaning