Study Guide cards

• God's Sovereignty


  • Demonstrated through miracles (prominent in Joshua)
  • Israel is under God's care/protection; obligated to return trust/obedience
• God's Presence


  God was hidden in times of Israel's sin (but not always)
• God's Promises


  God's promise to be with His people (Abrahamic) continues
• God's Kingdom


  God exercised His rule through human kings
• God's Covenant


  • The doctrine of retribution
  • Follow the Lord → blessings
  • Disobey the Lord → curses
• Divided monarchy


  931
• Fall of Israel (conquered by Assyrians)

  722
• Destruction of the Temple; fall of Judah (by Babylonians)

  586
• Return from Exile (Persia captures Babylon)

  539
• JOB – why righteous people suffer
• PSALMS – songs/prayers of Israel
• PROVERBS – timeless principles
• ECCLESIASTES – the meaning of life
• SONG OF SONGS – celebrates love
• Wisdom Lit is less about history, and more about instruction


  Interest in the way the world works, humanity's place in it, and how it all works under God
• Types of Wisdom Literature

  • Monologue
  • Dialogue
• Major Themes of Wisdom

  • The fear of the Lord
  • The limits of human wisdom
  • Righteousness and the wickedness in relation to God
  • Suffering that comes from evil
  • Connected with ethical living
  • God is the creator of the universe
• Themes of worship in the PSALMS

  • Respect for God's holiness
  • Celebrating God's character and deeds
  • Trust in God's ever-present kindness
• Parallelism


  • Synonymous: repetition of the same thought
  • Antithetic: two lines stand in contrast to one another (opposite)
  • Synthetic: the second line completes the idea of the first line
• Meter


  Rhythm; the most important aspect of Hebrew poetry
• Chiastic


  Begins and end with the same thing
• Acrostic


  Each line begins with a different letter of the alphabet
• Topics of Job


  • Significant literary masterpiece
  • Work of poetical and wisdom literature
  • Why do bad things happen to good people?
  • Can God be trusted?
• Theodicy


  Attempt to understand/justify God's way in the face of suffering
• Conclusions of Job


  • God is God and we are not
  • God is big enough for our biggest questions
  • Sometimes suffering is just suffering
  • Trust God to make it right
  • In Jesus, God Himself experiences unjust suffering
• Sections of Proverbs


  • 1-9: Poetic essays on the role and importance of wisdom
  • 10-30: Single Proverbs
• Theological Themes of Proverbs

  • Wisdom isn't about what you know, it's about who you are
  • Wisdom is rooted in personal knowledge of God
  • Wisdom: knowing and doing the right thing
• Themes of Psalms


  • Respect for God's holiness
  • Celebrating God's character and deeds
  • Trust in God's ever-present kindness
• Classifications of the Psalms

  • Hymns of Praise
  • Penitential
  • Wisdom
  • Royal
  • Messianic
  • Imprecatory
  • Lament
• Cycle of Sin in Judges

  1. Peace

  2. Sin

  3. Suffering/disaster

  4. Repentance

  5. Deliverance
• Retribution Theology


  • Whether the people get blessed or cursed rests on the king
  • The Doctrine of Retribution states that those who obey God are blessed and those who are unfaithful will be cursed
• Davidic Covenant


  • God exercising his kingship through the Davidic dynasty in Israel
  • Establishment of monarchy in Israel
  • Preparation of David to sit on royal throne after Saul
• Themes of 1 Samuel

  • Kingship of God
  • God's providential guidance
  • God's sovereign will and power
• Themes of 2 Samuel


  • Davidic covenant
  • Messianic promise
• Regnal Formula


  Structuring device when considering each ruler of the divided kingdom in the concluding account of Solomon's life and reign
• Joshua was one of the two spies that trusted God to take care of them amidst the Canaanites and became the "new Moses"
• Rahab was a prostitute who protected Israelites sent into the Promise land by Joshua and hid them in exchange for her family's safety
• Canaan was the land promised to Abraham and Moses
• Judges were 12 civil and military leaders sent by God to save Israelites out of their apostacy
• Samuel's mother begged God for a son, and He gave her Samuel due to her faithfulness. Samuel was raised in the tabernacle under Eli