Genres
These tell stories about events and people in Scripture
Narrative
This quality of God causes much confusion and division in the Church.
Trinitarian theology
The Empire in power at the time of Jesus.
Rome
This group constantly challenged Jesus on Torah and Rabbinic Law during His ministry on earth. It was the largest, most popular Jewish sect at that time.
The Pharisees
The first woman God created
Eve
The second King of Israel, and its most famous.
David
Where God walked with Adam and Eve
The Garden of Eden
The House of Bread, and Jesus' birthplace.
Bethlehem
The analysis of scripture to discern its meaning. It is a form of higher criticism.
Exegesis
This story describes a boy who overcame a great obstacle on his way to kingship.
David and Goliath
Communications to specific individuals or groups for specific and varied purposes; these are “occasioned” texts, and so we need to get at the circumstances that led to them being written.
Epistles
Showing contempt for God and religious matters through one's thoughts, words, or actions
Blasphemy
The Empire that gave birth to Hellenism
Greece
This King was a type of Antichrist who sacrificed in the Holy Place in the Temple of Jerusalem in 168 BC
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
The mother of Jesus
Mary
Famously survived the Lion's Den
Daniel
Typically viewed as the first place of Exile. Jesus went here when he was very young.
Egypt
This sect made up the ruling class of Israel during Jesus' time. They were also in charge of the Temple.
Saducees
A common term for the imputation of a preconceived idea into scripture; the opposite of exegesis.
Eisegesis
The Walls fell down
Battle of Jericho
The power of this genre comes through the use of vivid figurative language. Also, ideas are repeated, sometimes with the same words, other times with synonyms (synonymous parallelism).
Poetry
The notion that what is in the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and is thus the Word of God.
Biblical Inspiration
Captured the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 BC
Assyria
The official and unofficial promotion of supposed Greek ideals in the organization of personal life and civic accomplishment.
Hellenism
As Queen of the most powerful empire on the earth at that time, she saved her people from genocide.
Esther
Moses' older brother, and his spokesperson
Aaron
The city viewed as the Great Harlot.
Babylon
A group of fanatical Jews dedicated to overthrowing the Roman overlords in Israel.
Zealots
The branch of theology that devises, evaluates, compares and applies methods of interpreting the Bible.
Hermeneutics
It got really hot, but they didn't burn.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace.
Collections of wise sayings meant to shape the moral and ethical lives of their readers
Wisdom
The biblical books constituting the Old and New Testaments and considered authoritative by a religious group
Canon
Captured the southern kingdom of Judah in 586 BC
Babylonians
This ANE god demanded child sacrifice in its worship liturgy.
Moloch
Moses' mother
Jochebed
Believes in the supreme God who created all and gave Abraham the victory. In the name of God, the Most High, he blesses Abraham.
Melchizedek
Where Israel faced their first defeat in the entry into the Promised Land.
Ai
This group wanted separation from the general public and especially from the Temple in Jerusalem.
Essenes
The study and analysis of manuscript evidence to determine the original wording of the original text of the scriptures.
Lower Criticism
This story covers cursing, blessing, and a talking donkey.
Balaam, Balak and the nation of Israel
Faith documents, announcing a world-changing event centered in the person of Jesus.
Gospels
The literary form expressing "blessing" on someone for some virtue and including the reward they will be granted
Beatitude
Typically known as the key enemy of Israel during King Saul's reign.
The Philistines
Name two key aspects of the Ancient Near Eastern cultural river
Community identity, comprehensive and ubiquitous control of the gods, the role of Kingship, divination, the centrality of the Temple, the mediatory role of images, the effectual and essential role of sacrifice, the reality of the spirit world and magic
A Canaanite woman with a less than desirable occupation, she became an ancestor of Jesus.
Rahab
He was 8 years old when he became king of Judah, and he reigned for 37 years. He destroyed all pagan idols and altars and insisted his people worship the one God. The last king before the exile.
Josiah
Known in Joshua’s day as “the head of all those kingdoms."
Hazor
He was in charge of Judea during Jesus' ministry.
Pontius Pilate
The analysis and study of scripture to determine its authorship, date of composition, literary structure, or meaning.
Higher Criticism
This is the strange story of giants, demons, and a dangerous mixture of species.
The Nephilim in Genesis 6
God’s words to his covenant people, warning them and bolstering them during periods of pronounced spiritual and national danger. They are mostly oracles, later written down. We gain spiritual lessons from them about the disposition of God (e.g., disappointed, indignant, sorrowful, tender, caring), and the condition of the people addressed (e.g., frightened, disobedient, humbled, arrogant).
Prophecy
The 14 books included in Catholic Bibles but considered non-canonical in the Septuagint and therefore Protestant Bibles.
Apocrypha
This family broke free from the descendants of Alexander the Great
The Maccabees (Hasmoneans)
This ANE Canaanite goddess was known to grant fertility to those who worshipped her.
Asherah
Drove a tent peg through Sisera's head.
Jael
King of southern Judea. He was known for his idol worship and lack of faith in Yahweh.
Manasseh
The feeding of the 5,000 most likely took place here.
Plain of Bethsaida
He was in charge of Galilee during Jesus' ministry.
Herod Antipas
A hypothetical document which is supposed to be the literary source for the three synoptic gospels.
Q
This is the story of a man of God who married a prostitute, by God's command!
The story of the prophet Hosea.
This genre proclaims urgent messages to its original audiences, in particular, warning and comfort. To a greater degree than other books, they employ much symbolic language, which can be understood by studying preceding similar expressions in Scripture.
Apocalypse
A view that emerged in the 17th and 18th centuries in England that knowledge of God comes through reason rather than revelation, and that after God created the world, God has had no further involvement in it.
Deism
This Empire released the Jews to return to Jerusalem
Persia
Who is most likely the Pharaoh during the time of Moses?
Ramesses II
Nabal's wife. She married King David once he was dead.
Abigail
Philemon's slave who was converted to Christianity by Paul.
Onesimus
The City where Jeroboam set up an altar to his golden calf.
Dan
He was in charge of Judea during Jesus' childhood.
Archelaus
This form of Biblical interpretation attempts to discern the meaning of the text by examining the cultural, historical, sociological, and linguistic context of the scripture.
Grammatical-Historical approach
This king didn't like the prophet's words, so he set fire to them.
Jehoiakim Burns Jeremiah's Scroll (Jeremiah 36).
These unique stories communicate lessons embedded in extended similes and metaphors
Parables
A term from the New Testament indicating that ministry and mission in the church is for the service of the community
Diakonia
Descendants of Ben-ammi, who was the son of Lot.
Ammonites
Who was the primary god of the Persians during the time of the exile?
Hebrew midwives who disobeyed Pharaoh.
Shiphrah and Puah
His first three children had very unusual names. His family story was a metaphor for God's relationship with Israel.
Hosea
Jesus told these two cities that it would be better for Tyre and Sidon than for them on the day of judgment.
Chorazin and Bethsaida
This early Jewish text is an apocalypse that tells the story of the fallen angels. It is a marvelous example of the early Jewish imagination: it includes retellings of biblical stories, visions of the heavenly throne room, depictions of the Messiah, and fantastic journeys to the end of the world.
First Enoch
This method of Biblical interpretation deduces meaning from assertions in different parts of the Bible.
Rational approach
After Jesus, his is the most famous prayer in the Evangelical Church
The Prayer of Jabez (1 Chronicles 4)
Lists of legal sayings that provide wisdom for judges who have to decide on cases in their towns. These lists showcase the wisdom of the king to discern what justice will look like.
Law
The view that there is no need for the law of God in ethics or that the law is actually detrimental to an ethical life.
antinomianism
Ancestors of the incestuous relationship between Lot and his daughters.
Moabites
This Empire would leave unwanted newborn infants in designated spots to either survive (by being adopted) or die due to exposure to the elements.
Roman Empire
A prophetess who told King Josiah that repentance was necessary to save Judah from destructiona and exile.
Huldah
The third son of Aaron and Elisheba. He is in charge of the entire tabernacle, including its holy furnishings and articles. He becomes the eldest son when his older brothers disobey God.
Eleazar
This was listed as one of the 29 towns in the Negev and was assigned to the tribe of Simeon (Josh 15:31; 19:5). It was apparently controlled by the Philistines during King Saul’s rule, and was given by King Achish of Gath to David when he was running from Saul.
Ziklag
This early Second Temple literature includes a descriptive account of how God will resurrect righteous people, parallelling but differing Paul's account in 1 Corinthians 15
2 Baruch 49-52
A technique of higher criticism that seeks the message of the New Testament by analyzing the literary forms in which the message is given.
Form Criticism
This is the story of an ill-advised rebellion against God's spokesperson in the desert.
The rebellion of Korah (Numbers 16)
This sub-genre takes up 25-30% of Scripture.
Eschatology
This is the word we use to describe the quality of Jesus that describes Him as both fully human and fully Divine.
Hypostatic Union
This empire controlled Syria and Israel after Alexander the Great died.
Seleucids
The most violent and extreme Jewish revolutionaries of the New Testament age.
Daughter of King Jehoram and sister of Ahaziah, she took Ahaziah’s son Joash and kidnapped him from among the king’s sons slated for slaughter.
Jehosheba (2 Kings 11)
Jeremiah's secretary
Baruch
Known sometimes as the “Masada of the North,” this city is most famous for its strong defense against the Romans in the Jewish Revolt in AD 66.
Gamla
These two Rabbinic schools often caused conflict which intersected with Jesus and brought on vigorous debate.
The schools of Hillel and Shammai
A technique of higher criticism that analyzes the New Testament (particularly the gospels) to deduce the author’s intent or viewpoint by analyzing the way the author edited himself.
Redaction Criticism
This is a cautionary tale of showing respect to God's spokeman.
Two bears maul 42 children when they mock Elisha (2 Kings 2).