People
This Jewish girl became queen of Persia
Who is Esther?
This land was conquered by the Israelites in Joshua.
What is Canaan?
The book of Psalms is this genre.
What is poetry?
This book contains a cycle of sin, oppression, and God's raising up of leaders.
What is Judges?
Psalms includes this literary device where a pair of sentences/phrases are connected in some way
What is parallelism?
This was the first king of Israel.
Who is Saul?
This building in Jerusalem is where YHWH dwelled among his people.
What is The Temple?
What is practical wisdom?
This book is structured into five main collections.
What is Psalms?
Maccabees means this
This is the only female judge mentioned in the Bible
Who is Deborah?
What is Moab?
Joshua is this kind of genre.
What is narrative?
This book contains narrative and apocalyptic literature, written about Israelites in exile.
What is Daniel?
Ezra-Nehemiah enforce what decree in their return from exile
What is divorce from foreign wives?
This was the last judge of Israel, who selected Saul and David to the kingship
Who is Samuel?
This was the kingdom ruled by the line of David.
What is Judah?
This type of psalm expresses sorrow, often in response to individual or communal tragedy.
What is lament?
This set of books recounts the return of Israel and Judah to their homeland after exile.
What is Ezra-Nehemiah?
What is Bethlehem?
This is the "teacher" or "preacher," the primary speaker in the book of Ecclesiastes
Who is Qoheleth?
Job was a man from this location.
What is Uz?
This is the specific type of wisdom found in Ecclesiastes
What is speculative wisdom?
What is the Apocrypha?
this apocryphal book emphasizes the importance of almsgiving
What is Tobit?