Joshua
The Book of Joshua begins this portion of the Jewish Bible, the Tanak.
What is the Nevi'im (Prophets)?
These figures are local military leaders who God calls to lead the people of Israel from their oppression and into times of peace.
What are judges?
This biblical figure serves as the last judge of Israel, priest, prophet, and reluctant King-Maker.
Who is Samuel?
King David is from the tribe of Israel from which kings are supposed to emerge.
What is the tribe of Judah?
What is 66 books?
This person replaces Moses as the leader of the people of Israel to conquer the promised land.
Who is Joshua?
According to the cycle of judges, the flow of the narrative moves from the peoples' sin and disobedience, which leads to their oppression and judgment, which leads the people to do this.
Saul, the first king of Israel, is from this tribe of Israel; which makes him an illegitimate king from the beginning.
What is the tribe of Benjamin?
This is the holy city Zion that King David establishes as the capital of his kingdom.
What is Jerusalem?
This is considered the context or "world" in which the Old Testament is embedded.
What is the Ancient Near East?
This is the first city that Joshua and the people of Israel conquer in the promised land; it was quite the noisy ordeal.
What is the city of Jericho?
This figure was the last of the major judges before the time of Samuel.
Who is Samson?
At the beginning of 1 Samuel, Yahweh defeats this Philistine god in its own temple.
This prophet rebukes King David for sleeping with Bathsheba and having her husband Uriah killed.
Who is Nathan?
This "measuring stick" or "rule of faith" is what determines which books make it into the Holy Bible or not.
What is the canon?
The story of Joshua is considered problematic because it sanctions this activity which involves annihilating a whole people group.
During the Book of Judges, the people of Israel were not yet a united nation, instead they were considered this form of political society.
What are a confederation of tribes or interrelated tribal system?
King Saul calls on this mysterious figure in order to use necromancy to raise up the ghost of Samuel from the dead.
Who is the which of Endor?
This covenant established the royal lineage of Israel forever.
What is the Davidic covenant?
This area of land is considered the "cradle of civilization" and is where the promised land is located.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
The Book of Joshua ends near this holy mountain range which makes an appearance in the New Testament in John 4 with Jesus speaking to the Samaritan woman.
This Moabite woman lived during the time of the judges and establishes the genealogy of King David and Jesus Christ.
Who is Ruth?
God rejects Saul as king because of this incident.
What is Saul sacrificed to Yahweh instead of Samuel, the priest?
King David was known to play this ancient musical instrument.
These ancient figures are the ones who copied, collected, and compiled the ancient manuscripts of the Old and New Testament for centuries after the Bible had been written.
What are scribes or monks?