Exam 24: The Wisdom of the Sages: Preservation and Challenge

What is wisdom literature? What are its major concerns and goals? How widely is this genre known? What manifestations of wisdom literature are preserved in the Hebrew Bible?

The most common word for the underworld in the Bible is ________________.

____________ is a seven-headed serpent.

The Song of Solomon is also known as:

All are representations of the primeval sea-monster except:

Wisdom literature is concerned with the realities of human experience, from the mundane to the sublime, and with the relationship between that experience and the divine.

Proverbs and the Song of Solomon are both examples of (an):

God's first response to Job consists of:

The book of Job demonstrates a developed belief in reward and punishment after death.

A targum is a translation of a biblical text into _________________.

In the book of Job, the satan probably means something like:

The Song of Solomon was originally a secular book.

Discuss ancient Israelite beliefs on the afterlife. How did these beliefs develop over time? What may have influenced these changes?

In the Song of Solomon, the woman is compared to the cities of Jerusalem and:

Lemuel was king of ___________:

The Hebrew word for wisdom is hebel.

Most scholars think that the book of Ecclesiastes dates to the _________ period.

Job's wife is a major character in the postbiblical work _____________________.

The book of Ecclesiastes was not edited after its completion.

The Egyptian Instruction of Amenemope was familiar to the compilers or authors of the biblical book of Proverbs.