Hebrew Poetry
The books that are typically referred to as the poetic/wisdom books.
What are Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon?
The best translation for the Hebrew word "Hevel."
What is vapor/mist?
The key author associated with Proverbs.
Who is Solomon?
Job's four "friends."
Who are Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar, and Elihu.
The primary speaker in the book.
Who is the teacher/preacher?
The two main characters in Chs. 1-9.
Who are father and son?
The Psalms that stand outside of the main books and serve as a portal into the book.
What are Psalms 1 and 2?
The concept that Job blows up.
What is divine retribution?
This type of parallelism uses a picture to illustrate a point.
What is emblematic parallelism?
The three main topics that the narrator addresses.
What are time, death, and the seeming randomness of life.
What the Proverbs are not.
What are promises?
When a statement begins and ends a Psalm.
What is inclusio?
A characteristic of Hebrew poetry in which the structure of the sentence is inverted to form a mirror image.
What is chiasm?
The two things we are to do to live faithfully in this fallen world.
What are Love God and keep his commandments (Eccl. 12)?
Psalm 119 is an example of this structure, using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
What is an acrostic?
The word Romans 8 uses to translate the Hebrew "hevel."
What is frustration/futility?
The two women who sit in "the high places"--one leads to life and the other to death.
Who are Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly?
A type of psalm--one that invites God's judgement on sin and asks for justice.
What is imprecatory?
The chapter in which God shows up as a whirlwind.
What is chapter 38?