Exam 1 Study Guide

Note: You may use your Bible on the exam.

Be familiar with the material in these documents from the class website:

• Who Wrote the Books of the Bible?
• How Were the Books of the Bible Composed?
• The Text of the Bible (and the PPT presentation)
• The Canon of Scripture (and the PPT presentation)
• Ways of Reading the Bible
• Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels

Be able to identify and describe/briefly discuss the following (see the Glossary for many of these terms):

• etiology
• parablepsis
• haplography
• dittography
• Pentateuch
• intertextuality
• multivalency
• pericope
• Documentary Hypothesis (including the five pillars of Documentary Criticism)
• paronomasia
• Sitz im Leben
• double entendre
• Jungian archetype
• textual criticism
• source criticism
• redaction criticism
• rhetorical criticism
• queer theory
• postcolonialism

You should also be able to intelligently discuss the passages we covered in class, as well as questions based on the readings from Keefer's and Trible's books..

Sample questions:

• Compare and contrast the two creation stories in Genesis 1 and 2.
• Discuss the two stories of Sarah, Abraham, and Hagar.
• Discuss the concept of hospitality in the context of the stories in Gen 18 and 19.
• Discuss the author's use of rhetoric to advance his point of view in the book of Jonah.
• Compare and contrast the story of the Rich Young Ruler in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
• Discuss the author's use of paranomasia and double entendre in the story of Jesus and Nicodemus (John 3).
• How may Jungian archetypes be used in analyzing the story of the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2?