Homework Assignments for this week, Monday, Jan 17 - Sunday, Jan 23

Homework Assignments for this week, Monday, Jan 17 - Sunday, Jan 23

BIBLE READING FOR THIS WEEK:

In the King James Version of the Bible:

1)      Read Proverbs        (Unit 7)

2)      Read Job             (Unit 8)

3)      Read Ecclesiastes   (Unit 9)

        

In Commentaries:

Please read the Commentaries you have for Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes.

In The Bible as Literature, read Chapters  Nine, Five, and Eleven.

WRITING:

There is a Writing Question regarding Job that you will find at the end of the second part of my Job lecture.  Please answer it by 9 PM on Thursday, January 20.

MIDTERM EXAM:  WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED WITH IT, YOU WILL SEND IT TO

kerryman2424@gmail.com

IT WILL CONSIST OF TWO PARTS.  AND IT WILL BE OPEN BOOK. 

PART ONE WILL BE OBJECTIVE.  YOU WILL JUST COPY AND PASTE THE TEST INTO MICROSOFT WORD AND SEND IT TO ME WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED WITH THAT PART.  BE SURE TO PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.

THE SECOND PART WILL CONSIST OF TWO ESSAY QUESTIONS.  YOU WILL ANSWER BOTH AND SEND THEM  TO ME. 

THIS MIDTERM WILL BE DUE BY 9 PM ON SUNDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 23, 2011.

HERE IS A SAMPLE OF THE OBJECTIVE PART OF THE TEST:

English 252:  Sample Midterm Exam on Bible as Literature  Part One

Subpart A.:  Fill-in the blanks.

 

1. Jewish tradition views the Song of Solomon as a love song commemorating the marriage covenant

between  ______________________________.

2. The first plague against Egypt was:  _____________________________.

3. Two poetical conceits (i.e., literary conventions) utilized in the poetry of “The Song of Solomon” include:  ________________­­­­­­­­­______________________________________.

4. Cain founded a city called _____________________________.

5. Calvin’s belief that the elect go to heaven, while the reprobate go to hell is called

___________________________________.

Subpart B.  DEFINITIONS AND OTHER IMPORTANT TERMS AND IDEAS

1. Synonymous  parallelism means _________________________________________________.

2. The Documentary Hypothesis means (Be sure to mention all of the important names):

__________________________________________________________________.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­3. Idolatry is _______________________________________________________.

4. The most important reason that Saul was against David

was_______________________________________________________________________.

Subpart C.  Explicate the following passages of the Bible.  Tell what book it is from, what its significant literary features are (e.g. parallelism, metaphor, blazon, encomium, personification, and so on), and why it is a significant passage that aids us in the understanding of the meaning of the Bible.

1.   ¹O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

 ²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

 ³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

 ⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

 ⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

 ⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

 ⁷All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

 ⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

 ⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

2. ¹⁸And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

 ¹⁹These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

 ²⁰And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

 ²¹And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

 ²²And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

 ²³And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

 ²⁴And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

 ²⁵And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

 ²⁶And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

 ²⁷God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

 ²⁸And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

 ²⁹And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.