Mid-Term Review Sheet

Topics covered:

1)      Creation stories in the Bible and elsewhere

2)      Sources in the Pentateuch

3)      Deuteronomy and the Reforms of Josiah’s time

4)      The relationship of Chronicles to Kings

5)      The Call and Message of the Prophets

6)      Comparisons (Amos and Hosea or Ezekiel and Jeremiah)

7)      Nationalism in the book of Jonah

8)      The Synoptic Problem

9)      Major themes in the Gospel birth and infancy narratives

Set texts:

Genesis 1-3

Exodus 3,6,20-21

Deuteronomy 7,13

Joshua 6

2 Kings 19,22-23

Amos 1-2

Jeremiah 1-2

Ezekiel 1

1 Chronicles 21

Matthew 1-2

Luke 1-2

The mid-term quiz will consist of a number of questions from which you must answer two. All of these will be essay type questions, except for the last one, which will ask you to comment on important details and background information relating to actual primary texts, chosen from among the passages listed above.