BIBL 104 STUDY GUIDE: MODULE 2 As you read this weeks textbook reading assignments, take notes in response

to these questions and statements. This study guide will help you to prepare for your quiz. Harbin. Chapter 2 1. What is the term toledot, and why is it important? generations, or an account; It explains the accounts of creation and generations 2. What is the significance of the two creation accounts? How are they similar, and how are they different? the significance of the two creation accounts the first account is chronologically and the second topically. Both regard God as creator, but they contradict eachother as to how and when and how long it took for God to create the world. 3. What is the significance of the use of the different names of God in Genesis 1 and 2? Gen. 1- Elohim, creator God, Gen. 2- relational God with creation 4. What are the different views on the seven days of creation in Genesis 1:12:3? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? prescientific, day as a extended period of time, straight forward. 5. 6. Chapter 3 1. What does it mean to say that humankind was created in the image of God? 2. What is the difference between soul and spirit? Why is that important? 3. What are some implications of humanitys broken relationship with God? 4. What are some implications of humanitys broken relationship with humankind? 5. What are some implications of humanitys broken relationship with self? 6. What are some implications of humanitys broken relationship with the physical world? 7. How did God show mercy after the Fall? 8. Why did Cains sacrifice get rejected? 9. How did Lamech show false pride? How are relationships key to the creation account? What do we know about the world in which Adam first appeared?

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10. What are some key arguments for a global flood as opposed to local? 11. Why did God confuse the language of humankind?

Chapter 4 1. Why is this section of Scripture called the toledot of Terah even though he dies almost at the beginning? 2. What is the significance of the Abrahamic covenant, first for the nation of Israel and then for the Bible as a whole? 3. Describe Abrahams spiritual odyssey. 4. Why was Lot wrong in choosing to live in Sodom and Gomorrah? 5. Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
6. What was Abrahams greatest test?

7. Why is Isaac disappointing to us? Chapter 5 1. How did Esau lose his birthright? How did he lose the blessing? 2. What is the difference between a birthright and a blessing? 3. Why did Jacob go to Haran (both the real and cover-up reasons)? 4. What happened to Jacob in Haran, and why did he stay there twenty years? 5. What is the significance of Dinah? 6. Why did Joseph not get along with his brothers? 7. What are the implications of the incident between Judah and Tamar? 8. What is the significance of Joseph in the biblical record? 9. Describe Josephs reunion with his family.

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Chapter 6 1. Why is the dating of Exodus important? 2. How did we arrive at the date of Exodus proposed in this chapter?
3. How were the birth and childhood of Moses unique, and how did they prepare him for the

special task God had in mind? 4. Describe the confrontations between Moses and Pharaoh. 5. What is the significance of the Passover event? 6. Describe the first Passover. 7. What happened at Yam Suph? Chapter 7 1. What does it mean to say the Law is a covenant? 2. What does it mean to describe the Law as teaching? 3. How is the Law based on what God had done? 4. How is the Law a socioeconomic-judicial-political-religious system? 5. What happened when the people got tired of waiting for Moses? 6. Describe the tabernacle. 7. What were the three main categories of sacrifice, and what were they used for? 8. What was the purpose of the priesthood?
9. What were the key holidays of the nation, and what was their significance?

Fee and Stuart, pp. 163-180 1. Understand the connotations of the word "laws" as it is used in scripture as expressed by the authors.

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BIBL 104 2. Know the authors six initial guidelines for understanding the relationship of the Christian to the Old Testament Law. 3. Understand the importance of Israel's disobedience in 'choosing' to not keep the law.
4. Explain the paradigm of the Law that the authors discuss. That is, what is the Law to

Israel? 5. Know the basic concepts of apodictic law and casuistic law.
6. Be able compare and contrast the Old Testament Law with other Ancient Near Eastern Law

Codes of the time mentioned in the text. 7. How was the law a benefit to Israel? 8. Know the "Dos and Don'ts" at the end of the chapter.

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