First Semester B3 Review

Which city in Israel that we studied is the furthest north?

Which political power was centered in northern Mesopotamia?

Which modern evangelical viewpoint continues to hold a place for Israel in its interpretation of the Bible.

What body of water in Israel is the furthest north?

The term "quadriga" was given to the medieval minority viewpoint which claimed there was only one meaning to Scripture.

Some books (like Proverbs) don't really have normal context.

Which of the following is NOT one of the ways that achaeology can be used in interpretation given in class?

Etymology is the best way to determine the meaning of a word.

Eisegesis is reading a meaning "out from" a text; it's interpretation done properly.

Which is NOT one of the types of alleged contradictions in the Bible?

Which is NOT one of the major ways of determining structure in the Bible?

We need to know God better, so hermeneutics is important.

Prophecy is always predictive.

What would be the immediate context for John 3:16

Which of the following is not one of the levels of context that we studied?

What term is used to describe the fact that Scripture is basically clear?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a structural clue?

What is the term given to increasing detail given to the theological teaching in the Bible?

Who was the representative of the medieval minority viewpoint?

Context of the Bible is usually done by using which of the following?

What's the term given to the "way of speaking" at a given time or place?

Which type of parallelism is this: "The Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish?"

Proper interpretation can be done without paying attention to genre.

Which city in Greece was the cultural capital of the ancient world?

Identify one of the members of the Antiochian school.

Which of the following refers to the finding of multiple meanings in the Old Testament by the rabbis?

In which archaeological period did the patriarchs live?

Which of the following is NOT one of the principles dealing with context of the whole Bible?

What is the best way to display the structure of a sentence?

The last step in doing a word study is to consult a theological dictionary.

What term refers to the category of a piece of writing?

Which style of patristic interpretation used allegory frequently?

Symbolic language is the major characteristic of Hebrew poetry.

The Jordan River is found in the geographical area called the "coastal plain."

The biblical languages never use idioms.

When dealing with alleged contradictions, you should start by assuming that the passages contradict.

Syntax is the title given to studying the meaning of words.

On which side of the city of Jerusalem were David's city and the temple?

One problem in using etymology to determine the meaning of words is that word meanings change over time.

One of the advantages of archaeology is that once you've excavated something, you can put it back for others to dig up.

What is the "scientific art of interpreting written documents?"

The process of archaeology begins by carefully excavating artifacts.

Literality is the term given to describe the author's one intended meaning.

Which of the following is more noun-oriented?

Context is not very important to proper interpretation.

Which resource helps find where a given word occurs in the Bible?

Which of the following will NOT help identify the author's purpose?

When the New Testament interprets the Old Testament it often does so improperly; it misinterprets the Old Testament.

Which principle of archaeology provides relative dating?

Usage is really just paying attention to context.

What genre is described as a "passion narrative with an extended introduction?"

Time of action in both Hebrew and Greek is much less important than it is in contemporary English.

Which of the following advocated more literal exegesis, but did not end up leaving the Catholic church?

Historical reconstruction is actually just educated guesswork.

Introductions and Surveys can help deal with the context of the book.

Which of the following is NOT part of the core of a sentence?

Proper hermeneutics should reduce the disagreements about what the Bible means.

What is the presupposition for this course?

Who claimed that the Bible was not the Word of God, but could become the Word of God?

What's the name given to a geographical feature with steeply sloping sides and a flat top?

Which is the most important way of dating in the ancient near east?

The reformers wanted to avoid allegory and find only one meaning to the text.

Which of the following is first in moving from a paragraph summary to an outline.

To what section of the Hebrew canon do Joshua through 2 Kings belong?

Which of the following is paratactic?