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- 6. The Old Testament is not just a collection of writings about Israel's history and traditions. It is a prophetic ___________________ of Israel's history.
- 7. The Psalms scroll teaches God's people how to _____ as they wait for the future hope of a coming righteous one/king who will defeat evil and restore God's blessing to the world.
- 12. The stories of the Former Prophets mostly focus on the _________ of Israel's kings, prophets, and priests.
- 14. One way that the Bible is different from other ancient histories is the fact that the authors viewed Israel’s story as central to what God was doing for the ___________.
- 16. In Genesis 1-11, God promises to send a rescuer; he will be a descendant of the woman, but he will be a new kind of __________.
- 19. Like typical ancient histories, the Bible includes stories about people who would have been considered national heroes. Unlike typical ancient histories, the Bible includes many stories about these heroes that are shameful and ______________.
- 21. The Bible was originally written in Greek, Hebrew, and _________.
- 23. In Genesis 12, God makes a covenant promise to rescue and _____________ the world through the family of a man named Abraham.
- 24. In Genesis 1-11, we see that God wants to bless the world and rule it through humans, but humans are under the influence of ________, headed for self-destruction.
- 25. The Old Testament is expertly crafted, but when it concludes, it has no__________________. The promised leader hasn’t come.
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- 1. In Hebrew, the collection of Old Testament writings is referred to as the ________.
- 2. The Ketuvim is the third section of the Old Testament. Ketuvim means _____________, and this section included poetry, wisdom literature, and some stories.
- 3. Scribes and _____________ put the Old Testament together.
- 4. The Bible was written by ________ authors, over a 1000+ year period of time.
- 5. Formal equivalence refers to the effort of Bible translators to follow the ____________ of the original text as much as possible.
- 8. The Old Testament was put together over a period of many ____________
- 9. Functional equivalence refers to the effort of Bible translators to most accurately reproduce the ___________ of the original text.
- 10. The first five books in the Bible are (together) called the _____________, meaning "law".
- 11. The books of Ecclesiastes and Job talk about _________ God when life doesn't seem to make sense.
- 13. This book tells the entire story of the TaNaK, from the beginning, up to Israel's return from exile.
- 15. The Old Testament was put together by the ___________ & prophets.
- 17. The __________ is the section of the Old Testament that includes books of prophecy and historical books that tell Israel’s story from the prophet’s point of view.
- 18. Abraham's family is called to faithfully represent God to the world; they ________ at this task.
- 20. The main jobs of the prophets were to _________, warn, and promise future hope.
- 22. In the Old Testament/ TaNaK, all periods of Israel's history are woven together as one _______ story about God's covenant promise to Israel and to all humanity.