10 Spring Final Exam Review PART 2

This book records an intense search for meaning and satisfaction in life on earth.

When a king is a good king, who is he compared to?

This type of psalm is praise to God for his gracious acts

This type of psalm describes God's sovereign rule

This last remnant of Saul’s kingship was crippled in both feet and called himself as a dead dog

This type of psalm was used to travel to celebrate Jewish festivals

A conscious exaggeration for the sake of effect (I've been waiting forever!)

Biblical poetry is characterized by a minimum number of carefully chosen words. This is called:

Described more like a fighting machine than a man

How does Job begin?

The proverbs often present a contrast between wisdom and what?

Ecclesiastes ultimately teaches that, without God, all is ________________.

This wicked king let his wife do the dirty work for him in taking property that was not his.

The representation of God with human features or characteristics

This type of psalm invokes God's wrath on enemies

Each of the collections (books) of psalms ends with a hymn of praises called a:

This psalmist, warrior, and shepherd was chosen by Yahweh to shepherd over God’s people.

"God bribes his followers into obedience."  This is the view of...

This type of psalm portrays the reign of the earthly & heavenly king

Parallelism: line B takes the idea of line A further

Parallelism: line B repeats much of the idea of line A

Which Psalm is likely to be the latest written?

What is the basic question of the book of Job?

The book of Psalms in Hebrew is Sepher Tehillim, which means...

To what foreign power did the Southern Kingdom fall? 

The dominant structural element of Hebrew poetry

Who was the earliest psalm most likely written by?

Parallelism: line B says pretty much the opposite of line A

When a king is a bad king, who is he compared to?

True or False: Ecclesiastes has an optimistic view of life while Proverbs is pessimistic.

An impressive man who stood a head taller than the others.  A king “like the other nations.”

How well are you going to do on this final exam?

This type of psalm is a search for God's will and direction

"It is the unfaithful who suffer."  This is the view of...

Which of the following kings was a possible compiler of two of the "books" of psalms?

When did the Southern Kingdom fall? 

What is the best definition for the wisdom of which Proverbs speaks?