OLD TESTAMENT SURVEY

ASSIGNMENT SHEET

| (session 4)     TH | Wood, 13-64 | !! Genesis-Exodus

| ! Quiz 1

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|  !!! Feb. 15    T

|  Wood, 65-108 |  !! Leviticus-Deuteronomy

|  Quiz 2 |

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|  Feb. 22    T |   | !!  

|  ! Paper 1

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| (session 4)    TH | Wood, 109-166 | !! Joshua-Ruth

| ! Quiz 3

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Mar. 8     T |  Wood, 167-216 | !!  

Samuel-Kings

|  !!! Quiz 4

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|  Mar. 15    T |   | !!  

|  ! Test 1

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| (session 4)    TH | Wood, 217-270 (to #8) | !! Chronicles-Nehemiah

| !!! Quiz 5

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|  Mar. 29   T |  Wood, 270-320 |  !! Esther-Psalms

|  ! Quiz 6

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|  Apr. 5      T |  Wood, 321-349 | !!  

Proverbs-Ezekiel

|  ! Quiz 7

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| (session 4)    TH |   | !!  

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|  Apr. 12     T |   |   | !  

Paper 2

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| (session 4)    TH | Wood, 351-381 | !! Daniel-Malachi

| Quiz 8 (chapter content only) |

|  Apr. 19     T |   |   | !  

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| (session 4)    TH |   |   | ! Final exam

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Textbook:  A Survey of Israel’s History (rev. ed.) by Leon Wood

Requirements: 

(1)     Daily quizzes (except Quiz 8) will probe your knowledge of the textbook.  (Study guide for the first four assignments.)

(2)     Memorize chapter content.  Chapter content will be on all quizzes and tests and is cumulative daily. 

(3)     Learn lecture notes and handouts (for Test 1 and Final exam).

(4)     Memorize verses.  Lu. 24:44; II Tim. 3:15-17 (Test 1).  I Cor. 10:11; I Pet. 1:10-11 (Final exam).

(5)     Write two papers.

Paper 1:  Two-page, double-spaced, typed paper on the inspiration of the Old Testament.  Content should be based on the class lectures (supplementation from outside sources permissible).  Paper should have at least five paragraphs.

        Paragraph 1:  Key verses on the inspiration of the OT. 

        Paragraph 2:  OT proof of its inspiration. 

        Paragraph 3:  Proof of the inspiration of the Law and the Prophets. 

        Paragraph 4:  Proof of the inspiration of the Writings. 

        Paragraph 5:  Strongest proof (in your opinion) for the OT’s inspiration.

Paper 2:  Three- to four-page typed outline of the message of one of the following minor prophets (your choice!!):         (1) Joel; (2) Nahum; (3) Habakkuk; (4) Zephaniah; (5) Malachi.  Prayerfully read the prophetic book you choose.  Divide the book into logical sections.  Work up an outline that summarizes these sections.  Outline points must have at least two levels.  Outline should include paragraph discussions based on the Biblical text.  Employ any study tools available.  Please include a working bibliography and title page.

STUDY GUIDE
FOR ASSIGNMENTS IN LEON WOOD

Assignment 1 (pp. 13-64)

Nuzi

Mari

Date of Abraham

Hyksos

Abraham’s country (pp. 25-26)

Canaan (pp. 33-35)

Abraham’s first recorded stop in Canaan (p. 36)

Famine & Egypt

King of Salem

Covenant (pp. 42-43)

Waiting for the Promised Child (pp. 43-44)

Philistines

Abraham’s one weakness (p. 48)

Jacob and Esau born (pp. 49-50)

Jacob’s age (pp. 51, 53; fns. 7, 11)

Jacob (pp. 52-57)

Joseph in prison (p. 59)

Jacob’s move (p. 62)

Assignment 2 (pp. 65-108)

Evidence for 430 years (pp. 65-67)

Biblical evidence for date of Exodus (pp. 69- 72)

Rameses II

Amenhotep II

Amarna Tablets

Habiru

Merneptah

Hyksos

Nile River (p. 89)

Land of Goshen (p. 89)

Twelfth Dynasty

Eighteenth Dynasty

Moses (pp. 92-95)

Moses in the Sinaitic peninsula (p. 96)

Meaning of name Yahweh (p. 97)

Pharaoh’s magicians (p. 99)

Duration of plagues (pp. 100-101)

Passover

The people (pp. 104-105)

Yam suph (pp. 104-105)

Three miracles at Red Sea (pp. 106-108)

Assignment 3 (pp. 109-166)

Mount Sinai

Marah

Elim

Desert of Sin (p. 112)

Manna (p. 112)

Rephidim (p. 113)

Time spent at Mount Sinai

Giving the Law (pp. 115-19)

Hittite suzerainty treaty (p. 121)

Casuistic law v. apodictic

Service instituted (pp. 123-24)

Number of Israelites in first census (p. 125)

Incidents en route to Kadesh (pp. 127-28)

Assignment 4 (pp. 167-216)

Book of Judges (pp. 167-68)

The Judges (pp. 169-70)

A chronological problem (pp. 170-71)

Ras Shamra (p. 172)

Baal

Two representative accounts (pp. 176-77)

Jabin of Hazor

Merneptah (p. 180)

Gideon (pp. 182-83)

The account of Ruth (p. 184)

Wilderness wandering (pp. 129-30; see fn. 77)

Aaron’s budding rod (p. 130)

Water again from a rock (pp. 130-31)

King’s Highway

Baalam and the Moabites (pp. 133-34)

Deuteronomy (pp. 135-36; see fn. 103)

Crossing the Jordan (pp. 139-40)

Gilgal (three important events)

Conquest of Jericho (pp. 141-42)

Achan

Gibeon (pp. 146-47)

Joshua’s long day (pp. 147-48)

Relocation of tabernacle to Shiloh (pp. 154-55)

Year of Jubilee (p. 165)

Jephthah’s vow (pp. 185-86)

Evaluation of Samson (pp. 190-91)

Samuel (pp. 191-96)

Tabernacle moved to Nob (p. 193)

Kirjath-Jearim

Mizpah (pp. 194-95)

Saul’s tribe (p. 198)

Saul’s capital (p. 201)

Rejection of Saul (pp. 203-20