OBST 659 Quiz Job and Psalms

OBST 659 Quiz Job and Psalms

1. Sigmund Mowinckel was the scholar who first categorized the psalms into literary types or forms.
2. If God appeared to Job, He would tell Job he is getting less punishment than he deserved.
3. In his first test, Job loses his health and his wife is killed.
4. Royal psalms concern the relationship between the king and his people only.
5. God allows Satan to kill Job, if necessary, to prove Job’s loyalty unto death.
6. Each of Job’s friends defends the proposition that because God is just, He always rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked.
7. 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.
8. The book of Psalms teaches that sacrifice is more important than obedience to the Law of God.
9. A lament psalm is a set prayer written for worshippers to use for typical distress.
10. Some scholars believe that the third round of speeches in the book of Job are truncated or in some confusion.
11. Not a reason for Davidic authorship of the Psalms
12. If Job is blessed by God, then he will be blessed. If Job is unfaithful, then he will be punished.
13. The psalm headings must be an original part of each psalm.
14. In the heavenly council, Satan accuses Job of continuing to maintain his faithfulness to God to save his own skin.
15. After Job is afflicted with a terrible disease, his wife pleads with him to seek the Lord in prayer for deliverance.
16. 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)
17. As the book now reads, the epilogue of Job presupposes knowledge of both the poetic speeches and the prologue of the book.
18. Gunkel divided the Psalter into two main types (forms): hymns and
19. The prologue and the epilogue of Job are written in prose.
20. Satan suggests Job fears God because of God’s blessings (what he can get from God).
21. Each of Job’s friends deduces that if Job is suffering, he must have sinned since God would never punish the innocent.
22. 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.
23. Some terms in the psalm headings indicate the type of psalm.
24. 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’.
25. Edom’s reputation for wise men was nonexistent.
26. There are no psalms that touch upon the issue of ‘theodicy.’
27. The title for the book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible
28. The faithfulness of God to be just and deliver his people is the underlying hope in every situation of suffering.
29. Theodicy asks the question whether God’s ways are just.
30. Our book of Psalms is divided into seven smaller books reflecting the divine number 7.
31. Songs of Thanksgiving offer praise to God for some specific act of deliverance.
32. How do scholars understand the creatures behemoth and leviathan in Job 40-41.
33. 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.
34. Psalm 1 can be regarded as an introduction to the whole book of Psalms.
35. In the book of Job, the Lord calls Job ‘a blameless and upright man who fears God’.
36. Satan appears to be a title and not a name in the book of Job.
37. Not an author of a psalm
38. Psalms theology teaches that Yahweh is the only God and is Creator, Lord of history, and abounding in steadfast love.
39. Satan appears before God one time in the book of Job.
40. Job responds to God’s challenging questions with brilliant answers that lead God to restore to him all his previous blessings.
41. Elihu adds to the strict retribution theology of his friends by suggesting that the purpose of suffering can sometimes be ‘educative’.
42. 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.
43. Which answer is not a part of the structure of a lament psalm
44. Elihu is a humble young man who adds nothing new to the debate in his conversations with Job in chapters 32-37.
45. The setting of the book of Job takes place in the days after the Babylonian exile and return of the Jews.
46. Laments express the psalmist’s desire to give praise to God for who He is.
47. The ‘Elohistic Psalter’ is so-named because the name of God used in these psalms is primarily ‘Yahweh’.
48. In the Egyptian work ‘The Protests of the Eloquent Peasant,’ a peasant challenges the administration of justice before the Egyptian gods.
49. If Job is blessed by God, then he will be faithful. If Job is not blessed by God, then he will be unfaithful.
50. Ezekiel refers to the patriarch Job as an example of a righteous man.
51. Torah psalms are defined by their praise of God’s omniscience.
52. The scholar David Mitchell has argued that the entire book of Psalms presents an eschatological theology centered around the figure of the Davidic king.
53. The poetry in the book of Job consists of speeches.
54. One main term for God in the poetical speeches is ‘Eloah’.
55. The sub types of praise psalms include, divine kingship, hymns of creation and hymns of redemption.
56. There are six rounds of speeches between Job and his friends Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.
57. 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’.
58. Scholars are certain that the term Selah in the psalms means ‘forever’.
59. Job knows that his afflictions are a result of God’s testing of his faithfulness.
60. 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.
61. The problem of the suffering of the innocent is a question of ‘theodicy’
62. 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’.
63. The lament psalms never ‘argue’ with God by offering reasons why He should intervene.
64. Calls Job a windbag and claims God killed Job’s children because they were sinners.
65. A number of individual laments contain an expression of confidence that Yahweh has heard the psalmist’s prayer.
66. Job’s persevering faithfulness support’s God’s confidence in humans to worship to worship him free from selfish motivations.
67. In response to his friends’ accusations, Job defends his innocence before them and to God.
68. 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.
69. In the speeches, Job seems to charge God with injustice for allowing the innocent to suffer and prospering the wicked in some cases.
70. Weiser linked the use of many psalms with a fall festival of covenant renewal in Israel.
71. Match the terms to their definitions sheminit moses maa lament thanksgiving psalm, imprecation, messiah, Psalm 2, mediator, psalm 51