BIB 106 TEST 1 QUESTIONS (ANSWERED)
VERIFIED SOLUTION
How does the Assyrian Calendar give us dates for Bible Activity?
Eponym lists of Assyria honored one person per year, in 763 in the year of Ishdi-Segale
there was an eclipse, then we can work backwards to determine the years of other
Assyrian Activity
Timeline of Israel
Creation to Babel, The Patriarchal period, Egyptian Sojourn and Wilderness
Wanderings, The conquest to judges, The united monarchy, The divided monarchy, The
judahite monarchy, The exile, Restoration
Creation to Babel
Gen 1-11
Key Events: Creation, fall, flood, Noahic Covenant, the Tower of Babel
Major people: Adam, Eve, Noah
The Patriarchal period
Genesis 12-50
Key Events: God's covenant with Abe, the Birth of Isaac, Jacobs life, joseph going to
Egypt
Major People: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph
Other: End of early bronze age, beginning of middle bronze age, Egyptian second
Intermediate Kingdom
The Egyptian Sojourn and Wilderness Wanderings
Key Events: Israel in Egypt, the Exodus, The wilderness wanderings, the Mosaic
Covenant
Major peeps: Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Joshua, Caleb
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Dueteronomy
The conquest and judges
Key events: the conquest, rule of the judges
Major people: Joshua, Caleb, Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephtaha, Samson,
Ruth
Biblical texts: Joshua, Judges, Ruth
United Monarchy
Key events: The establishment of the monarchy, the Davidic covenant, the bldg of the
temple
Major peeps: Samuel, David, Saul, Solomon
Biblical Text: 1-2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-11, 1-2 Chronicles, Psalms, Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs
The Divided Monarchy
Key Events: the division of the monarchy and split of the kingdom , idolatry and the fall
of Israel to Assyria
Major peeps: Jeroboam, Elijah Elisha Ahab Jzebel Jehoshaphat
, 1 Kings 11-2 Kings 17, 2 Chronicles
Prophets: Hosea, Amos, Micah, Jonah, Isaiah
Judahite Monarchy
Key events: Manassehs idolatry, Josaiahs reign, the babylonian exile
peeps: Hezekiah, Manasseh, Josiah, Jeremiah
2 Kings 18-25, 2 Chronicles
Prophets: Nahum, Habakuk, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Joel
The Exile
Key events: the exiles of Judah and the ministry of Daniel
Peeps: daniel, ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar,
DAniel 1-6
Prophers: Daniel, Ezekiel, Obadiah
Restoration
Key Events: the return from exile, the decree of Cyrus, the bldg of the second temple,
the bldg of the walls in Jerusalem, reestablishment of the law
Peeps: Zerubbabel, Joshua, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
Prophets: Haggai, Zecheriah, Malachi
Bible: Ezra Nehmiah, Esther
Narratives
personal stories that retell historical events, have literary dimensions, have three basic
features (setting, characters, plot and plot resolution), and three types of characters
(protagonist, antagonist and agonist)
First Level of Narrative
meta-narrative of Scripture, begin and end the same way (right with God), basically all
of Scripture
Second Level of Narrative
larger narratives comprised of individual biblical books
Third level of narrative
The individual narratives that comprise a book or series of books
Narratives are not:
Allegories (with hidden meaning)
Moral lessons (not intended to teach moral lessons as a primary function)
Explicit (it is clear and present but often implicit)
Biblical narrator is
Omniscient within the biblical narrative
Narrator gives the point of view in 4 ways:
spatial: identified w a particular character
Temporal: are they telling it as its unfolding or after?
Psychological: does the narrator give thoughts and actions?
idealogical: does the narrator evaluate
Round character
character is very developed and complex
flat character
much less complex, shows some emotions (Pharaoh, Saul)
agents:
move the story along, not a lot of info
VERIFIED SOLUTION
How does the Assyrian Calendar give us dates for Bible Activity?
Eponym lists of Assyria honored one person per year, in 763 in the year of Ishdi-Segale
there was an eclipse, then we can work backwards to determine the years of other
Assyrian Activity
Timeline of Israel
Creation to Babel, The Patriarchal period, Egyptian Sojourn and Wilderness
Wanderings, The conquest to judges, The united monarchy, The divided monarchy, The
judahite monarchy, The exile, Restoration
Creation to Babel
Gen 1-11
Key Events: Creation, fall, flood, Noahic Covenant, the Tower of Babel
Major people: Adam, Eve, Noah
The Patriarchal period
Genesis 12-50
Key Events: God's covenant with Abe, the Birth of Isaac, Jacobs life, joseph going to
Egypt
Major People: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph
Other: End of early bronze age, beginning of middle bronze age, Egyptian second
Intermediate Kingdom
The Egyptian Sojourn and Wilderness Wanderings
Key Events: Israel in Egypt, the Exodus, The wilderness wanderings, the Mosaic
Covenant
Major peeps: Moses, Aaron, Miriam, Joshua, Caleb
Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Dueteronomy
The conquest and judges
Key events: the conquest, rule of the judges
Major people: Joshua, Caleb, Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephtaha, Samson,
Ruth
Biblical texts: Joshua, Judges, Ruth
United Monarchy
Key events: The establishment of the monarchy, the Davidic covenant, the bldg of the
temple
Major peeps: Samuel, David, Saul, Solomon
Biblical Text: 1-2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-11, 1-2 Chronicles, Psalms, Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs
The Divided Monarchy
Key Events: the division of the monarchy and split of the kingdom , idolatry and the fall
of Israel to Assyria
Major peeps: Jeroboam, Elijah Elisha Ahab Jzebel Jehoshaphat
, 1 Kings 11-2 Kings 17, 2 Chronicles
Prophets: Hosea, Amos, Micah, Jonah, Isaiah
Judahite Monarchy
Key events: Manassehs idolatry, Josaiahs reign, the babylonian exile
peeps: Hezekiah, Manasseh, Josiah, Jeremiah
2 Kings 18-25, 2 Chronicles
Prophets: Nahum, Habakuk, Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Joel
The Exile
Key events: the exiles of Judah and the ministry of Daniel
Peeps: daniel, ezekiel, Nebuchadnezzar,
DAniel 1-6
Prophers: Daniel, Ezekiel, Obadiah
Restoration
Key Events: the return from exile, the decree of Cyrus, the bldg of the second temple,
the bldg of the walls in Jerusalem, reestablishment of the law
Peeps: Zerubbabel, Joshua, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther
Prophets: Haggai, Zecheriah, Malachi
Bible: Ezra Nehmiah, Esther
Narratives
personal stories that retell historical events, have literary dimensions, have three basic
features (setting, characters, plot and plot resolution), and three types of characters
(protagonist, antagonist and agonist)
First Level of Narrative
meta-narrative of Scripture, begin and end the same way (right with God), basically all
of Scripture
Second Level of Narrative
larger narratives comprised of individual biblical books
Third level of narrative
The individual narratives that comprise a book or series of books
Narratives are not:
Allegories (with hidden meaning)
Moral lessons (not intended to teach moral lessons as a primary function)
Explicit (it is clear and present but often implicit)
Biblical narrator is
Omniscient within the biblical narrative
Narrator gives the point of view in 4 ways:
spatial: identified w a particular character
Temporal: are they telling it as its unfolding or after?
Psychological: does the narrator give thoughts and actions?
idealogical: does the narrator evaluate
Round character
character is very developed and complex
flat character
much less complex, shows some emotions (Pharaoh, Saul)
agents:
move the story along, not a lot of info
