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Hebrew Poetry
King Solomon
Proverbs
Psalms
Ecclesiastes, Job, & Song of Solomon
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An embellishment, or additional decoration that enhances the pages of a manuscript.

What is an illumination?

100
The parents of King Solomon
Who are David and Bathsheba?
100
The story of the hard-working ant is an example of this literary form.
What is a parable?
100
The author of most of the psalms, at least those that give an author
Who is David?
100
The book that celebrates the love of a man and a woman
What is Song of Solomon?
200
The most widely used characteristic of Hebrew poetry
What is parallelism?
200

The number of books in the Bible that Solomon wrote (not counting some psalms); they are all wisdom literature.

What is three?

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Proverbs is the biblical response to what is ______ and what is ________.
What is right and wrong?
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A type of psalm--one that is usually in praise of Israel's king
What is a royal psalm?
200

The literary point of view of Ecclesiastes

What is first person?

300
"They afflicted his feet with fetters; he himself was laid in irons" is an example of this specific structure.
What is echo?
300
What Solomon asked God to give to him
What is wisdom?
300
Proverbs 31 repeatedly uses parallelism to describe this type of person.
What is an excellent wife?
300
Most of Psalm 23 uses this figure of speech.
What is a metaphor?
300
The overall problem that the book of Job addresses
What is the problem of suffering?
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A characteristic of Hebrew poetry in which the structure of the sentence is inverted to form a mirror image.
What is chiasm?
400

They caused Solomon to turn away from God.

Who are his foreign wives?

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The thesis of the book of Proverbs
What is "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge"?
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Psalms is organized into this many books.
What is five?
400

Job's wife advises him to do this.

What is "Curse God and die"?

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Psalm 119 is an example of this structure, using the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
What is an acrostic?
500
After Solomon's death the kingdom was divided between Jeroboam and this man, Solomon's son.
Who is Rehoboam?
500
Another literary form used in Proverbs besides parallelism and parables. Solomon uses it to describe things the Lord hates and things Solomon doesn't understand.
What are lists?
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A type of psalm--one that teaches, perhaps recounting God's past action or contrasting good and evil
What is didactic?
500
The term that Ecclesiastes uses to describe life without God
What is "under the sun"?