Test Bank Ch.24 | The Wisdom Of The Sages Preservation And

Chapter 24: The Wisdom of the Sages: Preservation and Challenge

Test Bank

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 01

1. What is wisdom literature? What are its major concerns and goals? How widely is this genre known? What manifestations of wisdom literature are preserved in the Hebrew Bible?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 02

2. Compare and contrast the strange woman with Woman Wisdom. What are our sources for them? How is each woman used in Proverbs? How do modern scholars interpret them?

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 03

3. Compare the representations of God in the books of Job and Ecclesiastes. What are the similarities and differences? How do these differ from representations of God in the Deuteronomistic History and the prophets?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 04

4. Discuss ancient Israelite beliefs on the afterlife. How did these beliefs develop over time? What may have influenced these changes?

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 01

1. The book of Job sufficiently answers why bad things happen to good people.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 02

2. The Song of Solomon was probably written as a secular, not a religious, book.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 03

3. The book of Ecclesiastes was not edited after its completion.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 04

4. Job’s wife is named in the biblical text.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 05

5. Wisdom literature is concerned with the realities of human experience, from the mundane to the sublime, and with the relationship between that experience and the divine.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 06

6. The Hebrew word for wisdom is hebel.

a) True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 07

7. The Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope was familiar to the compilers or authors of the biblical book of Proverbs.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 08

8. The books of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs both share a strong connection to the figure of David.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 09

9. The book of Job demonstrates a developed belief in reward and punishment after death.

a) True

b) False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 24 Question 10

10. The Song of Solomon was originally a secular book.

a) True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 01

1. In the book of Ecclesiastes, the author is given the name:

a. David

b. Qoheleth

c. Sheol

d. Rabbi

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 02

2. The “young man” who comes to talk to Job to provide a different point of view than Job’s friends do was:

a. Zophar

b. Bildad

c. Eliphaz

d. Elihu

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 03

3. The expression “vanity of vanities” occurs in the book of:

a. Job

b. Ecclesiastes

c. Song of Songs

d. Proverbs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 04

4. The Song of Solomon is also known as:

a. Qoheleth

b. Song of Songs

c. the Royal Psalm

d. Esther

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 05

5. Proverbs encourages social justice for all except:

a. the poor

b. widows

c. orphans

d. resident aliens

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 06

6. In the book of Job, the satan probably means something like:

a. bright one

b. the accuser

c. son

d. reason

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 07

7. In the Septuagint, Job’s wife is named:

a. Bathsherba

b. Michal

c. Miriam

d. Dinah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 08

8. In the Song of Solomon, the woman is compared to the cities of Jerusalem and:

a. Shechem

b. Babylon

c. Tirzah

d. Tyre

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 09

9. The book of Ecclesiastes can be summarized as a collection of the author’s ideas concerning:

a. the meaning of life

b. social justice

c. Adam and Eve

d. prophecy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 10

10. A short saying that pithily expresses insight into experience is called a(n) _________:

a. proverb

b. wisdom

c. allegory

d. instruction

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 11

11. Metaphors from nature are prevalent in:

a. Proverbs

b. Job

c. Ecclesiastes

d. Song of Solomon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 12

12. Proverbs and the Song of Solomon are both examples of (an):

a. anthology

b. extended psalm

c. love poetry

d. wisdom

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 13

13. All are true of the satan in the book of Job except:

a. he is a member of the divine council

b. he is absent from epilogue

c. he is identified with the devil

d. he is a “son of God”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 14

14. Most scholars think that the book of Ecclesiastes dates to the _________ period.

a. exilic

b. Persian

c. Hellenistic

d. Roman

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 15

15. God’s first response to Job consists of:

a. a catalogue of marvels

b. the judgment and death of Job

c. immediate restoration for Job

d. expulsion of the satan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 16

16. Lemuel was king of ___________:

a. Israel

b. Judah

c. Aram

d. Massa

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 17

17. The Song of Solomon consists of:

a. parodies

b. hymns

c. a catalogue

d. poetic speeches

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 18

18. All are genres used in the book of Job except:

a. lament

b. hymn

c. catalogue

d. genealogy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 19

19. All are frequently mentioned in biblical wisdom literature except:

a. the Exodus

b. the conquest

c. covenants

d. none of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 24 Question 20

20. All are representations of the primeval sea-monster except:

a. Leviathan

b. Tiamat

c. Behemoth

d. Apsu

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 01

1. The most common word for the underworld in the Bible is ________________.

a. the Book of the Events of the Days

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 02

2. ____________ is a seven-headed serpent.

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 03

3. Divine justice is called __________________.

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 04

4. Job’s wife is a major character in the postbiblical work _____________________.

a. parallelism

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 05

5. In the book of Job, Job and his friends rarely, if ever, refer to God by the name ____________.

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 06

6. The idea of bodily resurrection of the dead apparently developed in Judaism during the ____________________ period.

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 07

7. A targum is a translation of a biblical text into _________________.

a. the Chronicler

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 08

8. The book of Job is anonymous, but later rabbinic tradition attributed it to ____________.

a. the Writings

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 09

9. ____________ is a hypostasis and the source of order in society and success in life.

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Title: Chapter 24 Question 10

10. “The Protestation of Guiltlessness” is from the larger Egyptian work ___________________.

a. Elohistic Psalter