OBST 659 Quiz Hebrew Poetry and Wisdom

OBST 659 Quiz Hebrew Poetry and Wisdom

OBST 659 Quiz Hebrew Poetry and Wisdom

1. One proposed setting for learning wisdom in ancient Israel is the ‘royal court’.
2. In synonymous parallelism, the second line repeats ideas of the first line.
3. Which statement defines a ‘non-alphabetic acrostic.’
4. Quantitative meter as embraced by Josephus and some of the Church Fathers is accepted as the metrical key to Old Testament poetry by a number of Old Testament scholars today.
5. The most likely time for wisdom to have been imported into Israel was during the time of King David.
6. ‘My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men’ (Psalm 57:4a)
7. The surrounding nations had no ‘wisdom teachers’ like Israel for the existence of ‘wise men’ was unique to Israel.
8. The Bible states that there were other ‘wise men’ in the surrounding nations.
9. The wisdom books are filled with the mention of the great moment in Israel’s history.
10. ‘Folk wisdom’ may be defined as the observations on life by ordinary people.
11. A single poetic line in Hebrew poetry is called a luxnos from the Greek.
12. “And-cast-down from-heaven to-earth, The-beauty-of Israel” (Lam. 2:1b) is an example of 3:2 meter.
13. In emblematic parallelism, one line is literal and the other line of poetry is metaphor.
14. The Bible never links King Solomon with ‘wisdom’.
15. Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs were placed in a special group within the Writings called the Five Megilloth.
16. A single bicola consists of two, two verse units of Hebrew poetry.
17. The idea of wisdom in the Old Testament had nothing to do with practical matters and was purely an intellectual exercise concerning important philosophical questions.
18. Some synonyms of the word ‘wisdom’ connect the concept to ‘right behavior’.
19. ‘He who walks with integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will become known’ (Prov. 10:1).
20. Fokkelman says Hebrew poetry is structured above the basic unit of bicolon or tricolon into verses and that groups of two or three or more verses form a unit called a ‘strophe’.
21. Bishop Robert Lowth believed that the basic feature of Hebrew poetry was ‘parallelism’.
22. In the Hebrew Bible, the five poetic books are found in the third division called the Writings or Kethubim.
23. Identifying meter has proven extremely useful from an exegetical standpoint for the interpretation of the biblical text.
24. Old Testament poetry would include all of the following: narrative, psalms of lament, proverbial wisdom, and non- proverbial wisdom.
25. According to the Old Testament wisdom books, wisdom belongs to God.
26. Many scholars agree with Watson that meter is a feature of Hebrew poetry, but that it is used flexibly.
27. Which category does not reflect a source for wisdom reflection
28. The Hebrew word most often used in the wisdom books for ‘wisdom’ is hokmah from the root hkm.
29. ‘My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. Yea, my heart shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things’ (Prov. 23:15-16)
30. There are other ‘wisdom passages’ in the Hebrew Bible outside of the wisdom books and the Psalms.
31. A colon is a single verse unit (member) of Hebrew poetry.
32. The book of Job is an example of ‘optimistic wisdom’.
33. The order of the poetic books in our English Bibles came about from the order in the Greek Septuagint.
34. An eight verse unit of Hebrew poetry (as in Psalm 119) is called a tristich or tricolon.
35. One later (intertestamental) Jewish apocryphal work that can be classified as ‘wisdom literature’ is the Wisdom of Solomon.
36. The Egyptian wisdom work the Instruction of Amenemope bears a surprising resemblance to Proverbs 22:17-24:22.
37. The basic two literary genres of the Old Testament are prose and prophecy.
38. ‘Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful;’ (Psalm 1:1).
39. A literary feature that employs the same or similar sounding vowel sounds in accented positions
40. The primary Old Testament wisdom books are: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.
41. What type of parallelism is the verse ‘To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding’ (Prov. 1:2).
42. “A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” (Prov. 10:1), is an example
    of synonymous parallelism.
43. The comparative wisdom texts in the ancient Near East (e.g Egypt & Mesopotamian) contain examples of both ‘speculative’ and ‘pessimistic’ wisdom.
44. In much of the 20th century, many critical scholars have believed that ‘wisdom literature’ in the Old Testament represented a tradition that was a foreign secular import into Israelite culture.
45. Which of the following characteristic(s) may serve as a better help for biblical exegesis of poetic texts than meter.
46. The Hebrew language depends largely upon rhyme for its rhythmic quality.
47. Which book is not classified as a poetical book in the OT
48. The phrase in Judges 15:16 “With the jawbone of an ass/ have I mightily raged…”, would be a bicolon or distich.
49. Hebrew poetic ‘meter’ is primarily based on ‘rhyme’.
50. A stich is a term for a Hebrew poetic unit that is comparable to a colon.
51. The two marks of Hebrew poetry for Adele Berlin are ‘parallelism’ and ‘terseness’.
52. Qinah or dirge meter was seen traditionally as the meter of Old Testament laments.
53. Moving beyond Lowth’s views, modern interpreters now believe that parallelism operates on many levels including: grammatical, lexical, and phonological.
54. Poetry is highly stylized language that is usually easy to distinguish from prose stories.
55. Imagery in texts as another term for figurative language, includes numerous devices like metaphor, simile and allegory among others.
56. The ‘fear of the Lord’ in the book of Deuteronomy has little similarity to the ‘fear of the Lord’ described in the wisdom books.
57. The language of theology is deeply enriched by OT poetic imagery for its power of allusion reminds us of the more hidden and mysterious truths which theology seeks to express.
58. “The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.” (Ps. 114:4) is an example of O’Connor’s ‘antithetic parallelism’.
59. Lowth defined parallelism as the occurrence of pairs of lines in which the words or phrases in one line correspond in some way to those in the other.
60. Some synonyms of ‘wisdom’ do give the word a more intellectual slant.
61. According to Whybray, in the book of Proverbs ‘wisdom’ is always ‘life-skill’.
62. Bishop Lowth identified five main types of Hebrew parallelism.
63. The Song of Solomon is never associated with the wisdom books in the Old Testament.
64. Ecclesiastes is an example of ‘speculative wisdom’.
65. Some scholars believe that a professional class of ‘wise men’ or ‘sages’ existed in Israel along with the prophets and priests based on texts such as Jeremiah 18:18.
66. The use of the name Yahweh in the phrase the ‘fear of the Lord’ connects biblical wisdom literature with Israel’s covenant God.
67. There is no disagreement among scholars about what constitutes Hebrew poetry.
68. An acrostic is where the Old Testament poet begins each successive poetic unit or a group of units with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in a deliberate sequence.
69. In a nonalphabetic acrostic, the number of lines matches the number of consonants in the alphabet.
70. The book of Proverbs is an example of ‘pessimistic’ wisdom.
71. Match the terms to their definitions assonance acrostic alliteration onomatopoeia paronomasia lyric poetry gnomic poetry elegaic poetry binah imagery