Sons
What wisdom book is often framed as advice from a father to a son?
Proverbs
Boaz is fine with marring Ruth, even though she is a ______ from _____.
Moabite from Moab
According to legend, how many translators come together and independently translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek according to the Letter of Aristeas?
70, LXX
How many wisdom books are there in the Old Testament?
5 (Job, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Psalms, Song of Songs)
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid,
Isaiah 40
King Hezekiah is hemmed in by the Assyrians. Isaiah the prophet gives him a sign that it shall all soon pass. What is the sign? And when will the invasion pass?
A Son – before he is ~3
What was Ezra’s problem with some of the Judahite marriages? Why is this a problem/what is it corrupting?
Wives were from the nations. The Holy Seed
T or F
Ancient readers were aware that there were multiple Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible.
True (Origen's Hexapla contains 4 Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible)
What OT figure becomes the supposed author of several later wisdom books?
Solomon
since the same fate comes to all, to the righteous and the wicked
Who is told ‘You are my son?”
Israel's King
Never recline at table with a married woman, or drink intoxicants with her, Lest your heart be drawn to her and you go down in blood to the grave.
Bible, Apocrypha, or Nah?
Ben Sira - Apocrypha
What are the three original biblical languages?
Greek, Aramaic, Hebrew
Ecclesiastes is the Greek name for what book in the Hebrew Bible?
Qohelet
Come to Bethel—and transgress;
to Gilgal—and multiply transgression;
bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tithes every three days;
Amos 4
Who is no prophet nor the son of a prophet?
Amos
Who says to Job… ” 'Bless' God and Die! ”
Job's wife
T or F
In thinking about the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, it is accurate to say that translation and interpretation are distinct phenomena.
False (many of the translations are interpretive)
What wisdom book is only about wisdom after it is interpreted not before?
Song of Songs
Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging to confirm a transaction: the one took off a sandal and gave it to the other; this was the manner of attesting in Israel.
Ruth 4
Hosea has several sons with his wife Gomer. The names, however, are negative, reflecting YHWH’s judgement against Israel. Can you name one of the sons?
Lo’ruchamah (not pitied) | lo’ammi (not my people)
Who was Hosea’s wife?
Gomer
The Greek adjective theopneustos is made from what two Greek words?
Theos = God
Pnew/pneuma = spirit/breath
Can you name one of Job’s so-called ‘friends?’
Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar
“Let the day perish in which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A male is conceived.’
Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it
or light shine on it.
Job 3