Theology Final Exam Study Guide
1. How does God reveal himself to man?
2. What was the beginning date and ending date of Patriarchs? Beginning and ending event? What happened during this period? Who were the major characters? Who were the minor Characters? In which books is this period found?
3. What was the beginning date and ending date of Exodus? Beginning and ending event? What happened during this period? Who were the major characters? Who were the minor Characters? In which books is this period found?
4. What was the beginning date and ending date of Beginnings of the Monarchy? Beginning and ending event? What happened during this period? Who were the major characters? Who were the minor Characters? In which books is this period found?
5. What was the beginning date and ending date of Monarchy? Beginning and ending event? What happened during this period? Who were the major characters? Who were the minor Characters? In which books is this period found?
6. What was the beginning date and ending date of Divided Kingdom? Beginning and ending event? What happened during this period? Who were the major characters? Who were the minor Characters? In which books is this period found?
7. What was the beginning date and ending date of Exile? Beginning and ending event? What happened during this period? Who were the major characters? Who were the minor Characters? In which books is this period found?
8. What was the beginning date and ending date of Remnant Community? Beginning and ending event? What happened during this period? Who were the major characters? Who were the minor Characters? In which books is this period found?
9. Is the Bible true? Explain.
10. For what purpose did God call Abraham? What two-fold promise did God make to him?
11. What two things does the testing of Abraham teach us? Explain the second one in detail.
12. What is the sign of the covenant between Abraham and God?
13. What do these names mean? Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah.
14. How does Abraham try to save Sodom, and why?
15. How was Moses saved from death as a baby? Why did he flee Egypt as a young man?
16. How did the Israelites protect their firstborn against the tenth plague? What meal commemorated this event?
17. Describe the stages in the formation of scripture.
18. What is the problem with taking Genesis 1-11 literally? How is it supposed to be read?
19. How is God the author of the Bible? Were Adam and Eve real? What was the Original Sin?
20. Why study Judaism? What is the hinge on which all Judaism turns?
21. What is the point of the Ten Commandments? The Covenant? The Torah?
22. What are the four Fundamental ideas of the Exodus?
23. What is the Exodus, and Judaism's answer to the question: How do you feel about standing before God?
24. What two lessons do we learn about ourselves from the stories in the Bible? What is the goal of Judaism?
25. Explain the Jewish idea of sin.
26. List the three ideas of the Kushner video. How did he answer the question: Why do bad. things happen to good people?
27. Kushner said that the better question is: What do you do when bad things happen to good people? What was his advice here?
28. How do these Christian practices have their roots in Old Testament salvation history: Baptism, Eucharist, Reconciliation? Name ten other Christian practices, celebrations, prayers that have roots in Judaism.
29. What did he say the best line in his book was? What does Kushner recommend if you lost a loved one?
30. What is sin? What effect does it have on our world? If all God created was good, how did evil enter? What two important things do we draw from the chain of sin stories?
31. What is the major event in the history of Judaism? What new identity and destiny did it give the Jews?
32. What are the two basic ways to interpret scripture?
33. When did God reveal his name to the people? What is his name? What does this mean?
34. How does God reveal himself to man?
35. How do you read the Bible?
36. List the Ten Commandments.
37. What is the fourfold pattern in judges and much of the Old Testament? Who were the judges?
38. How does the Book of Ruth act as a bridge book between Judges and Kings? How is Samuel a bridge person?
39. How did David become famous in Israel? What two moves did he make after becoming King?
40. What promise did God make to David through Nathan? Why is it so important?
41. What serious sin did David commit? Who was David's successor? How did his reign end?
42. What were the grievances of the Northern tribes? What happened when Rehoboam refused to redress these?
43. What are two important points about Elijah's encounter with the prophets of Baal?
44. What situation in the North initiated the Age of Prophets?
45. Name one contribution of Elisha to Israel�s history.
46. What situation in the north sparked the writing prophets into action? How many are there? How many are known as major prophets? Why?
47. Why are prophets and kings found paired up in the OT? What do we mean when we say prophets were foretellers and forthtellers?
48. Why was Amos an unlikely prophet? What did he preach against?
49. How was Hosea�s approach to Israel different that Amos's, and why?
50. When and by whom was the Northern Kingdom conquered? What are tribes called who were lead away?
51. What name is given to the northerners who intermarried with their enemies, and why did later Jews disdain them? What was the Southern Kingdom's response to the news that the north had been conquered?
52. What two prophets warned the south that the same fate awaited them? Who is called the prophet of God's holiness, and why?
53. When and how was Judah saved from Sennecherib�s army?
54. How did the Judahites respond to Jeremiah's teaching? How did they respond to Babylon's first invasion of Judah? What was Jeremiah's response?
55. When did Judah fall, and what three pillars lay in ruins afterwards?
56. What two developements took place during the exile? What was the Septuagint? What does Septuagint mean?
57. Into what two periods is Ezekiel�s ministry divided? What threefold message did Ezekiel prophesy? How was his prophesy fulfilled in Jesus?
58. Who was the Second Isaiah, and how did he get his name? What is the book of Consolation? Who freed the Jews from Babylon, and when?
59. What two problems delayed the building of the Temple? What two prophets arose to confront the crisis, and what was their message?
60. What two prophets challenged the Hebrew�s isolationism? What point does the book of Jonah make?
61. What kind of Jew is pictured in Ecclisiastes? What serious problem does the book of Job address? What is Job�s message?
62. What did Antiochus try to do to the Jews? What situation did this create? What book addresses this? Into what is this book divided?
63.What is the point of the story of Daniel in the lion�s den? In what ways did Jesus link himself with Daniel's vision?
64. Describe the 5 groups of people.
65.What leader bridges the OT and NT? What book rings down the curtain on Jewish history? List the 7 wisdom books.
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This is Tom Hyde's (SLUH '02) review from his freshman year, 1998-1999.
It might be a good set of questions for you to check your readiness for the final exam.
If you want the answers, see Tom. He'll sell them to you, I'm sure.
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