Bible Old Testament Psalms

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1200 Total word requirement.

Read:

Chapter 13 -The Old Testament Story

Prov. 1-9, 22-24; Job; Ecclesiastes; Psalms 1, 8, 22, 23,
32, 45, 51, 74,116, 117, 119, 139

1.How did the Egyptian “Instruction of
Amenemopet” influence the Israelite book of Proverbs?

2.What is the role of Satan in Job 1 and 2?

3.Why is Ecclesiastes called skeptical wisdom?

4.What evidence suggests that the book of Psalms
is a collection of songs produced over a long period of time?

5.What are the various ways readers might
understand the designation Qoheleth?

Read:

Chapter 14 -The Old Testament Story

Ruth, Esther, Daniel

6.Identify
Ptolemies, the Seleucids, Antiochus the Great, and Antiochus Epiphanes.

7.What
position concerning Jewish ethnicity does the book of Esther support?

8.Why
do some interpreters view the book of Ruth as a response the marriage policies
in Ezra and Nehemiah?

9.What
were the viewpoints of the universalists and the particularists in post-Exilic
Judaism? What conditions gave rise to these opposing views?

10.What
are the two major divisions of the book of Daniel?

Read:

Chapter 52 – The Old Testament
Story (Go to the website (click on link in column to the left) and spend some
time reviewing some of the documents found in the caves at the Dead Sea site.
Read about the collection and learn why they are so important still today.
)

Also Read: Dead Sea Scrolls

11.How
were the Samaritans related to Judaism?

12.Why
is the Dead Sea Scrolls set identified as an apocalyptic group?

13.Why
is it not completely accurate to speak of the Apocrypha as extrabiblical
literature?

14.Why
does the Protestant Old Testament not include the books of the Apocrypha?

15.What
do the Dead Sea Scrolls contribute to our knowledge of the Bible and
first-century B.C.E. Judaism?