Betts SBTS Old Testament 1 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Key Ideas of the Pentateuch - ANSWERSAbrahamic Covenant as a unifying theological theme.
Diversity of literary types and distinctive literary features.
Issues related to the historicity of the narrative texts.
Genesis Key Ide...
Key Ideas of the Pentateuch - ANSWERSAbrahamic Covenant as a unifying theological theme.
Diversity of literary types and distinctive literary features.
Issues related to the historicity of the narrative texts.
Genesis Key Ideas - ANSWERSGod created, and creation was good.
Disobedience separated people from God.
God instituted a program of revelation called the covenant.
Genesis Purpose Statement - ANSWERSThe purpose of the story of ______ is to begin the story of the
Covenant. Though God created everything just right, sin drew people away from God -- so much that
they no longer had an accurate idea of what like God was like. This was why God decided to make a
covenant. The covenant would be with a chosen people, Abraham and his family. The relationship of the
covenant was to allow him to use Israel to give people an accurate picture of what of what he was like.
_____ tells how the covenant was established despite many obstacles.
Major Themes of Genesis - ANSWERSCovenant and Election
Monotheism
Sin
Origins
Genesis Keyword - ANSWERSBeginnings
Exodus Keyword - ANSWERSSalvation
Exodus Key Ideas - ANSWERSThe supremacy of Yahweh over pagan deities.
The exodus as a redemptive event for ancient Israel.
, The Mosaic law as a religious and social charter for Israel.
The presence of God symbolized in the tabernacle.
Exodus Purpose Statement - ANSWERSThe purpose of _____ is to explain how the Israelites became
slaves in Egypt and their deliverance from the Egyptian oppression. The book also reveals the God whose
name is Yahweh and relates how his divine presence came to dwell among his people, Israel.
Exodus Major Themes - ANSWERSYahweh
The Ten Plagues
The Ten Commandments
The Presence of God
Leviticus Keyword - ANSWERSHoliness
Leviticus Key Ideas - ANSWERSThe holiness of God
The purity of the covenant community
The principle of substitution in the sacrificial ritual
The principle of mediation in the service of the priests
The redeeming of time by means of the liturgical calendar
Leviticus Purpose Statement - ANSWERSThe purpose of _____ is to provide a manual or handbook on
holiness designed to instruct the Hebrew community in holy worship and holy living so that they might
imitate God's holiness and enjoy the presence and blessing of God.
Leviticus Major Themes - ANSWERSHoliness
Sacrifice
Sabbath Rest and Sabbatical Year
Numbers Keyword - ANSWERSWanderings
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