Key Beliefs and Events in Biblical History

Posted on Dec 11, 2024 in Religion

Exam 1

  • Baptists, through preaching, opened salvation to all.
  • Temptation is a historical fact of Jesus’ life.
  • The apocalyptic is born in response to a crisis situation and is a call for hope.
  • The stories of the patriarchs were written after the Exodus and before that of origins.
  • Luke speaks of the Spirit in relation to the Father as John does in relation to Jesus.
  • The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection of the dead because they only accepted the Pentateuch as the Bible.

Exam 2

  • While John the Baptist proclaims conversion before the divine trial, Jesus announced the kingdom of God and following the conversion.
  • The patriarchal history was written before the creation stories and after that of the Exodus.
  • The spot in paradise is not just a reality of the past but also of the present and the future.
  • The Baptist movement is a reform movement that offers salvation to all men.
  • Jesus was subject to a single trial. It was before the Roman authority represented by the figure of Pontius Pilate.

Exam 3

  • In Egypt, not only did a group of Jews commanded by Moses leave.
  • Israel’s entrance into Canaan was not always through conquest.
  • The division of Israel came to Rehoboam, Solomon’s son.
  • The Kingdom of God is presented in Mark as a reality “already and not yet” (this and future).
  • The so-called “theory of the sources” shows that the Pentateuch is not initially a uniform and continuous narrative, but a multi-layered text finally united.
  • Five cycles comprise the Israelites: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Israel, and Joseph.
  • The Exodus is the cornerstone of the Jewish faith.
  • The “plagues” are used as nothing escapes the domain and will of God.
  • The Bible, as holy scripture, is a collection of books through which believers have expressed their faith and have recognized their experience of encounter with God.
  • Between the Old Testament and New Testament, we find rupture and continuity.
  • The synagogue and circumcision were two institutions that arose during the Babylonian exile.
  • Per the “Edict of Restoration” decreed by Cyrus in 538 BC, those deported to Babylon were able to return to Palestine.
  • The so-called “revolt of the Maccabees” came under Greek domination and was mediated by Mattathias and his sons.
  • The Prophet is responsible for proclaiming the word of God to the people or the king.
  • When discussing the authorship of the Bible, we speak of an author and multiple authors.
  • The apocryphal gospels show a greater biographical interest in Jesus than the canonical ones.
  • Historiography is a literary genre that includes, among other genres, the saga, story, legend, and so on.
  • When the Bible speaks of the Patriarchs, it is not about making history for a certain time with these characters, but expressing salvation history to that time.
  • The “invasion of the sea peoples” encouraged the birth of Israel’s monarchy.
  • Israel had a religious bias against the monarchy; only Yahweh could be king.
  • “Amphictyony” is the confederation of the 12 tribes of Israel.
  • The Decalogue is derived from the stipulations of the covenant between God and the people, which oblige the vassal.
  • The “Code of the Alliance” is a collection of laws on very varied topics.
  • When talking about the “truth of the Bible,” three levels are taken into account: the literary, historical, theological, and kerygmatic.
  • Abraham is the man who trusts God’s promise, a promise which is two things: seed and soil.
  • The Gospels are narratives that contain the words and deeds of Jesus, lived and expressed as a testimony of faith of a community.
  • The Passover is the event that reinterprets the words and actions of Jesus that will appear in the Gospels.
  • “Baptists” are not identified as an extremist group of national-religious court, considered the sacred army of God.
  • The temptation is a historical fact of Jesus’ life, though it may not have happened as we are told.
  • The meals of Jesus with publicans and sinners are a sign of the coming of the Kingdom.
  • Not all evangelicals provide data on the birth and infancy of Jesus.
  • We do not know exactly what year Jesus was born.
  • Three blocks of books that are in the “writings“: Wisdom, lyric, and narrative.
  • Biblical wisdom is defined as the art of right living.
  • For the Bible, to be wise is to have a correct configuration of life.
  • The Book of Job is a meditation on suffering.
  • Celebrating Easter is reinterpreted from the context of the Exodus.
  • The question of the origin of the psalms is not resolved.
  • Given the difficulties, Israel’s distrust in God will be their sin.