Confused about any of the material we've rushed through in recent weeks? Unsure what I am looking for on any of the exam questions or ID's? Want to share exam-study ideas with other students? Post your questions and comments here. Help out ask you can with the questions other students ask. I'll check in from time to time myself to see if there is anything I should clarify.Monday, April 28, 2008
Guide to the Perplexed II (Final Exam Questions)
Confused about any of the material we've rushed through in recent weeks? Unsure what I am looking for on any of the exam questions or ID's? Want to share exam-study ideas with other students? Post your questions and comments here. Help out ask you can with the questions other students ask. I'll check in from time to time myself to see if there is anything I should clarify.
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What else could I add to the Satan ID other than that he is a potential evil for all men, that he is a spiritual force, but overall it is not really clear what Satan is?????
VATICINIUM EX EVENTU????
AJ asks about the Satan ID and what one could say here. This is one I really hoped would be answered in class discussion, and perhaps some of you would like to speculate here. Whatever you do, I'd like the ID tied to the problem of evil. Some things to consider:
1. Satan is (rightly) translated as adversary or accusor in many versions. He seems to be a kind of prosecutor, and there is in his words an accusation, not just against Job, but against God.
2. The prologue suggests some sort of a cosmic test of Job that neither Job himself nor his comforters know anything about. The Book of James in the New Testament says to "count it all joy when ye fall into diverse temptation knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience." Part of the lesson in Job seems to be that, like Daniel and his three friends and like Habakkuk, one should obey God and trust him first, then seek the answer to why.
3. There's probably a good reason the Book of Job doesn't say more about Satan than it does--and that it never comes back to the heavenly conversation between God and Satan!
I will discuss "vaticinium ex eventu" in class Thursday in connection with the visions of the 2nd half of Daniel. Basically, it means a "prophecy" made after the fact: wait until something happens, then prophesy about it! Scholars argue if the visions in Daniel were written before or after the events they describe. Vaticinium ex eventu or not?
Art I have a few questions these ID's are very vague for me:
SERAPHIM ????????????
Seraphim are part of the angelarchy of Orthodox Judaism
Isaiah's vision is repeated several times in daily Jewish services
IMMANUEL???????????????
Appears in The Book of Isaiah
Immanuel is an 'End of Days' prophet woven into Isaiah's descriptions of his era
SENNECHARIB???????????????
Makes a siege of Jerusalem
The monuments of Sennacherib report the invasion occurred in 701 BC
Then I have no info on Vanity or Necho.
I am not sure what you want us to know about HAGGAI and SYNAGOGUE???
Could you also go over these again...I coudnt catch them at the end of class today: Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Zealots
Thanks.
Whenever it doesn't seem like you have much information on an ID term, spend some extra time thinking about how the term relates to an important theme discussed in class.
Note, for instance, that Seraphim, Immanuel, and Senecharib are all connected to Isaiah, and you should be able to use each term to show either why Isaiah's message was a burden or why it was a burden worth bearing.
Note, for instance, that, when Isaiah has his vision, he sees the images of the temple all of a sudden come alive. Would it be easy to see such things? Hardly. Most of us couldn't handle it, and it's no surprise Isaiah's first response to his vision is "woe is me." But seeing the living reality behind the symbolic images in the temple strengthens him as well. Very similar here to Ezekiel's Merkabah vision.
For Immanuel, look at the whole business of the scroll Isaiah puts together about his son Mehershalalhashbaz. Note also that the name means "God is with us," and note why that reminder is important.
For Sennacherib,look at Isaiah 36 and 37.
"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity" is a phrase repeated often in Ecclesiastes. Maybe your translation doesn't use the same word. It should be easy to connect the word to the important themes of Ecclesiastes.
Pharaoh Necho is in 2 Chronicles 35 and 36. You might connect him to the story of Josiah and to the frustration Jeremiah must have felt at the needless death of the great reforming king.
I didn't manage my lecture time well Thursday and rushed through a few of the important terms.
If you look at my lecture notes at the link below, you'll find most of what you need. I will not use Pharisees, etc. as ID choices anyway. They aren't on the revised study guide.
http://www.northern.edu/marmorsa/templetotemple.htm
Are TAMMUZ and GOG kind of similar?
Tammuz and Gog aren't similar, but they are related. Gog is Gyges, the king of Lydia. He traced his decent to Attis, the god equivalent to Tammuz. The Lydians particularly emphasized the worship of Tammiz/Attis and the prostitution assoicated with it, so they and their king (Gog and Magog) are particularly good representative of the spiritual/religious forces arrayed against the followers of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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