Reference no: EM133257552

Questions

Question 1.

Songs of Thanksgiving offer praise to God for some specific act of deliverance.

True

False

Question 2

Psalms theology teaches that Yahweh is the only God and is Creator, Lord of history, and abounding in steadfast love.

True

False

Question 3

If Job is blessed by God, then he will be faithful. If Job is not blessed by God, then he will be unfaithful.

Friends

God

Job

Elihu

Satan

Question 4

The faithfulness of God to be just and deliver his people is the underlying hope in every situation of suffering.

True

False

Question 5

The Sumerian poem Lamentations of a Man to His God (2000 B.C.) is similar to the book of Job, but affirms the retribution theology of Job's friends.

True

False

Question 6

If God appeared to Job, He would tell Job he is getting less punishment than he deserved.

Eliphaz

Bildad

Zophar

Elihu

God

Question 7

In the Egyptian work 'The Protests of the Eloquent Peasant,' a peasant challenges the administration of justice before the Egyptian gods.

True

False

Question 8

In the speeches, Job seems to charge God with injustice for allowing the innocent to suffer and prospering the wicked in some cases.

True

False

Question 9

Psalm 150 is the last of five 'Hallel Hymns' which bring to a climax the growing dominance of praise at the end of the psalter.

True

False

Question 10

God allows Satan to kill Job, if necessary, to prove Job's loyalty unto death.

True

False

Question 11

Elihu adds to the strict retribution theology of his friends by suggesting that the purpose of suffering can sometimes be 'educative'.

True

False

Question 12

In the book of Job, the Lord calls Job 'a blameless and upright man who fears God'.

True

False

Question 13

The psalm headings must be an original part of each psalm.

True

False

Question 14

Which answer is not a part of the structure of a lament psalm

Initial petition to God

Description of crisis

Petition for redress from God

Vow of praise for answer

Grounds for praise

Question 15

Torah psalms are defined by their praise of God's omniscience.

True

False

Question 16

Not an author of a psalm

David

Asaph

Solomon

Abraham

none of the above

Question 17

Job's request for God to answer him comes in chapters 38-42 where God appears to him in the quiet of a 'still small voice'.

True

False

Question 18

Scholars are certain that the term Selah in the psalms means 'forever'.

True

False

Question 19

The lament psalms never 'argue' with God by offering reasons why He should intervene.

True

False

Question 20

A lament psalm is a set prayer written for worshippers to use for typical distress.

True

False

Question 21

Gordis believes the book of Job offers grounds for courage in the face of the mystery of suffering in light of God's control of and ordering of creation (that is God by analogy must be in control of the moral order as well)

True

False

Question 22

The title for the book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible

psalmoi

tehillim

psalterion

mizmor

none of the above

Question 23

Some terms in the psalm headings indicate the type of psalm.

True

False

Question 24

Satan appears before God one time in the book of Job.

True

False

Question 25

The problem of the suffering of the innocent is a question of 'theodicy'

True

False

Question 26

There are no psalms that touch upon the issue of 'theodicy.'

True

False

Question 27

A number of individual laments contain an expression of confidence that Yahweh has heard the psalmist's prayer.

True

False

Question 28

Our book of Psalms is divided into seven smaller books reflecting the divine number 7.

True

False

Question 29

The Kingship Psalms celebrate Yahweh's rule over creation and his exercise of justice on behalf of his covenant people and the downtrodden of society.

True

False

Question 30

How do scholars understand the creatures behemoth and leviathan in Job 40-41.

mythological beasts representing chaos

common animals: hippo and crocodile

extinct animals: dinosaurs

all of the above

none of the above

Question 31

Theodicy asks the question whether God's ways are just.

True

False

Question 32

In response to his friends' accusations, Job defends his innocence before them and to God.

True

False

Question 33

In the heavenly council, Satan accuses Job of continuing to maintain his faithfulness to God to save his own skin.

True

False

Question 34

Laments express the psalmist's desire to give praise to God for who He is.

True

False

Question 35

In his first test, Job loses his health and his wife is killed.

True

False

Question 36

The setting of the book of Job takes place in the days after the Babylonian exile and return of the Jews.

True

False

Question 37

Each of Job's friends deduces that if Job is suffering, he must have sinned since God would never punish the innocent.

True

False

Question 38

Satan suggests Job fears God because of God's blessings (what he can get from God).

True

False

Question 39

There are six rounds of speeches between Job and his friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.

True

False

Question 40

Each of Job's friends defends the proposition that because God is just, He always rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked.

True

False

Question 41

Elihu is a humble young man who adds nothing new to the debate in his conversations with Job in chapters 32-37.

True

False

Question 42

Ezekiel refers to the patriarch Job as an example of a righteous man.

True

False

Question 43

Not a reason for Davidic authorship of the Psalms

called 'sweet psalmist of Israel' (2 Sam. 23:1)

testimony of Christ and the New Testament writers

Title of Psalm 18

Hebrew le Dawid can also mean 'for David' as well as 'of David'

none of the above

Question 44

If Job is blessed by God, then he will be blessed. If Job is unfaithful, then he will be punished.

Friends

God

Job

Elihu

Satan

Question 45

The church father Athanasius stated one important reason for the importance of the psalms in the life of believers when he said that while most of the Scriptures speak to us, the Psalms speak for us.

True

False

Question 46

Calls Job a windbag and claims God killed Job's children because they were sinners.

Eliphaz

Bildad

Zophar

Elihu

God

Question 47

Satan appears to be a title and not a name in the book of Job.

True

False

Question 48

As the book now reads, the epilogue of Job presupposes knowledge of both the poetic speeches and the prologue of the book.

True

False

Question 49

The scholar David Mitchell has argued that the entire book of Psalms presents an eschatological theology centered around the figure of the Davidic king.

True

False

Question 50

At the end of his first test, Job says 'the Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord'.

True

False

Question 51

Since the author of Job establishes from the beginning that Job is innocent of moral fault, he implies that the book deals with the problem of the 'suffering of the innocent'.

True

False

Question 52

Psalm 1 can be regarded as an introduction to the whole book of Psalms.

True

False

Question 53

After Job is afflicted with a terrible disease, his wife pleads with him to seek the Lord in prayer for deliverance.

True

False

Question 54

The poetry in the book of Job consists of speeches.

True

False

Question 55

The prologue and the epilogue of Job are written in prose.

True

False

Question 56

Sigmund Mowinckel was the scholar who first categorized the psalms into literary types or forms.

True

False

Question 57

A. Weiser linked the use of many psalms with a fall festival of covenant renewal in Israel.

True

False

Question 58

The book of Psalms teaches that sacrifice is more important than obedience to the Law of God.

True

False

Question 59

The 'Elohistic Psalter' is so-named because the name of God used in these psalms is primarily 'Yahweh'.

True

False

Question 60

Some scholars believe that the third round of speeches in the book of Job are truncated or in some confusion.

True

False

Question 61

Royal psalms concern the relationship between the king and his people only.

True

False

Question 62

The sub types of praise psalms include, divine kingship, hymns of creation and hymns of redemption.

True

False

Question 63

Edom's reputation for wise men was nonexistent.

True

False

Question 64

One main term for God in the poetical speeches is 'Eloah'.

True

False

Question 65

Job's questioning of God is not congruent with his earlier righteous behavior and relates dream where God told him no one can claim to be righteous before God.

Eliphaz

Bildad

Zophar

Elihu

God

Question 66

Gunkel divided the Psalter into two main types (forms): hymns and laments.

True

False

Question 67

Job knows that his afflictions are a result of God's testing of his faithfulness.

True

False

Question 68

The lament psalms and Job teach that at some point the sufferer believer will worship God even if the situation does not appear to improve.

True

False

Question 69

Job responds to God's challenging questions with brilliant answers that lead God to restore to him all his previous blessings.

True

False

Question 70

Job's persevering faithfulness support's God's confidence in humans to worship to worship him free from selfish motivations.

True

False.