Preface This book attempts to supplement the beginning student s study of the Old Testament. As with the Survey textbook, we here define beginning student from our experiences with college freshmen, serious church study groups, and seminary students. Such students range in age from 18 to 80. They are intelligent and willing to learn, but they need guidance and motivation to study a part of the Scriptures often thought irrelevant in our culture. We have tried to write this workbook for the benefit of both students and instructors offering basic questions for further study, mapwork, etc., to facilitate the use of the textbook in the classroom to whatever extent the instructor and students require. It is a workbook challenging the student to think and delve further into the Bible as well as into Old Testament Survey by Paul House and Eric Mitchell. This text also offers flexibility, leaving instructors plenty of room to use it as daily assignments, daily quizzes, or as testing material. We want to thank Paul House for the opportunity to contribute to this project. When I was his Garrett fellow at Southern Seminary, and ever since, he has been a good friend and mentor. We also want to thank our graphics artist Ray Pomerico who contributed all the figures and who did the technical editing of the maps. Eric Mitchell and Archie England How To Use This Workbook For the Student This workbook is designed to assist you on your daily journey through the study of the Old Testament. The questions contained in the following pages have been tried and proven in various classroom settings. Spending the time and effort to answer these workbook questions should enable you not only to learn the Old Testament but also to do well on weekly quizzes and sectional exams. This workbook is designed to be used with both your Bible and Survey textbook open at your side. Our prayer for this effort is that God will bless those who hide His Word in their hearts. May this workbook enable you to show yourself approved as God s worker. For the Instructor This workbook carefully follows the chapters of the revised Old Testament Survey by Paul House and Eric A. Mitchell. It draws questions directly from the text and then, at appropriate junctures, provides an overview of the emerging historical periods of the Old Testament. The workbook is dually designed. It can be used as a student workbook and as testing material for your class. Great care has been given to provide you with a variety of testing material, easily usable in SCANTRON or other formats for both weekly class quizzes or sectional exams. All pages are perforated so they may be used for class assignments as well. With the addition of Topics for Further Study at the end of major sections, we hope this workbook will also promote more engaging classroom discussions from better informed students. Moreover, as teachers we have designed this workbook to be used in whole or in part, based on your individual needs for an accountability tool for the study of the fundamentals of the Old Testament. An answer key is available upon request from the authors. Eric Mitchell and Archie England
NORTHERN ISRAEL 35 E 36 E 0 10 20 30 40 50 Miles 0 City City (uncertain location) Mountain Peak 10 20 30 40 50 Kilometers 33 N 33 N G I L E A D 34 E Joppa Dor Caesarea Acco Tyre Sidon Abana River Rosh HaNiqra (Ladder of Tyre) Mt. Carmel Aphek Megiddo LOWER GALILEE Sepphoris SAMARIA Tirzah Mt. Ebal Shiloh UPPER GALILEE Mt. Meron Mt. Gilboa Shechem Mt. Gerizim Hazor Nazareth Cana Mt. Tabor Dan Capernaum Beth-shan Mt. Hermon BASHAN Damascus Pharpar River Litani River Plain of Asher Huleh Basin Yarmuk River Kishon River Ramoth-gilead N. Harod R. Plain of Dor Plain of Acco Jezreel Valley Jordan River Plain of Sharon N. Yarkon River Jabbok River J o r d a n R i f t E a s t e r n P l a t e a u MEDITERANEAN SEA SEA OF GALILEE W. Faria R.
SOUTHERN ISRAEL City City (uncertain location) Mountain Peak JUDAH 31 N 31 N Tamar EDOM MISHOR C o a s t a l P l a i n S y r o - A r a b i a n D e s e r t Wilderness of Zin Negev Dead Sea Arnon River MOAB N. Besor River W. el-arish River Zered River Bozrah A r a b a h S h e p h e l a h Wilderness of Judah Plain of Philistia Sinai Ashkelon Gaza Ashdod Kadesh-barnea Gezer Ekron Gath Beersheba Bethel Mizpah Hebron Jerusalem Arad Jericho En-gedi Heshbon Medeba Dibon Kir-hareseth Rabbah (Amman) Petra 0 10 20 30 40 50 Miles 0 10 20 30 40 50 Kilometers 34 E 35 E 36 E
Beginning the Study 1. What do we call the Scriptures used by the first disciples of Christ? a. The scrolls and parchments c. Hebrew Bible e. None of the above b. The Word of God d. Old Testament What three divisions of the OT did the Hebrew Bible contain? 2. a. Wisdom b. Prophets 3. c. Hexateuch d. Law 4. e. Writings 5. 6. 7. 8. Stories that end sadly, typically with death, are described as having what kind of plot? a. Epic b. Homeric c. Comedy d. Tragedy Antithetical poetry uses the second part of parallel lines to express (a) an opposite thought, (b) a similar thought, or (c) a thought that is completed in the second half of the parallelism. The order of the Hebrew Bible is the same as the order of the English Bible. a. True b. False As a group, what name is given to the first five books of the Bible? a. Hexateuch b. Laws of Moses c. Pentateuch d. Pentagram e. none of the above Match the appropriate prose or poetry for the following books, in which Prose = a and Poetry = b predominate. 9. Genesis 12. Psalms 10. Ruth 13. Numbers 11. Song of Solomon 14. Joel Match the following Bible books to their respective part of the Hebrew Old Testament (Law = a; Prophets = b; and Writings = c): 15. Genesis 20. Psalms 25. Ezra 16. Ruth 21. Numbers 26. Judges 17. 1, 2 Kings 22. Malachi 27. Exodus 18. Isaiah 23. Proverbs 28. Daniel 19. Job 24. 1, 2 Samuel 29. Esther 30. Which of the following nations/people groups would have existed in 3000 BC? a. Sumerian b. Moabites c. Persian d. None of these
Introduc tion 31. One possible date for Moses composition of Genesis Deuteronomy would be? a. 2200 BC b. 1900 BC c. 1100 BC d. None of these 32. Which of the following is not a major people group that impacted Israelite history? a. Assyria b. Babylon c. Persian d. Syria e. Moab 33. The Fertile Crescent best describes what ancient territory of the Bible? a. From Egypt through Syria curving south into Mesopotamia. b. From Dan to Beersheba c. From the second cataract of Nubia to Ugarit north of Tyre d. Gaza, Israel, Moab, Edom, and Syria 34. The Akkadian-speaking peoples are best known through the two most powerful resulting empires of the Assyrians and the Babylonians. a. True b. False 35. Which collection of tablets provide biblical scholars with an excellent perspective on aspects of the political climate between Egypt and their northern vassals? a. Nuzi tablets b. Amarna letters c. Ebla Archives d. Gilgamesh Match the following deities to the appropriate nations: 36. Asshur a. Egypt b. Babylon 37. Marduk c. Assyria d. Canaan 38. Ahura-Mazda e. Persia 39. Amun-Re 40. Baal
10 Old Testament S U R V E Y : A Student s Guide Questions for Reflection 1. How might reading the Old Testament in the order of the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings affect your understanding of the Old Testament? 2. How does focusing on the Old Testament s literary aspects change your attitude about its contents? 3. What are your basic assumptions about studying the Old Testament? Maps In blue ink, on the attached two-part map of Israel write-in the following regions, rivers, and bodies of water: Abana River Arabah Arnon River Bashan Coastal Plain Dead Sea Eastern Plateau Edom Gilead Huleh Basin Jabbok River Jezreel Valley Jordan Rift Jordan River Judah Kishon River Litani River Lower Galilee Mediterranean Sea Mishor Moab Nahal Besor Nahal Harod Nahal Yarkon Negeb Pharpar River Plain of Acco Plain of Asher Plain of Dor Plain of Philistia Plain of Sharon Samaria Sea of Galilee Shephelah Sinai Syro-Arabian Desert Upper Galilee Wadi el-arish Wadi Faria Western Mountains Wilderness of Judah Wilderness of Zin Yarmuk River Zered River Place the following mountains on the twopart map of Israel: Mount Carmel Mount Ebal Mount Gerizim Mount Gilboa Mount Hermon Mount Meron Mount Tabor Place each city below on the two-part map of Israel: Acco Aphek Arad Ashdod Ashkelon Beersheba Bethel Beth Shan Bozrah Cana Capernaum Ceasarea (Maritima) Damascus Dan Dibon Dor Ekron En-gedi Gath Gaza Gezer Hazor Hebron Heshbon Jericho Jerusalem Joppa Kadesh-Barnea Kir-haresheth Medeba Megiddo Mizpah Nazareth Petra Rabbah (Amman) Ramoth-Gilead Rosh HaNiqra Sepphoris Shechem Shiloh Sidon Tirzah Tyre Tamar