Quiz 024

Episode 024 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 24: God May Relent. See what you remember about the Prophetic Books of the Old Testament by clicking “START” below!

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Who is speaking in the following quote, and who is the addressee? “But you trusted in your beauty, and played the whore because of your fame, and lavished your whorings on any passer-by. . .on them [you] played the whore. . .with them played the whore” (Ezekiel 16:16,17).

Jacob, Rebecca and Leah

Solomon, the Queen of Sheba

Yahweh, Israel

David, Bathsheba

Joseph, Potiphar's wife

2 / 10

How does Jonah feel about his prophetic calling for most of the Book of Jonah?

He's indifferent.

He's distracted by money.

He's reluctant.

He's distracted by women.

He's ecstatic.

3 / 10

“The wolf shall live with the lamb. . .and a little child shall lead them” (Isa 11:6) is an example of:

An oracle against a foreign nation.

An oracle against Israel.

Litotes

Epistrophe

A messianic vision.

4 / 10

What happens to the city of Nineveh in the Book of Jonah?

The inhabitants of Nineveh who don't heed Jonah's advice are burned alive.

Nineveh is moved from the north of Mesopotamia to the northwest of Asia Minor.

Nineveh listens to Jonah's advice, Yahweh is pleased, and the city is spared.

Nineveh is swallowed by a giant whale, Jonah being the only survivor.

Nineveh disregards Jonah's counsel and the city is crushed by Babylon.

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A woman named Oholibah is told that she “played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her paramours there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions” (Ez 23.19-21). What is going on at this juncture in the Book of Ezekiel?

Ezekiel has seen a vision of wheels within wheels and is castigating his wife's disloyalty.

Ezekiel is recollecting the dreadful time in Egypt before the Exodus.

Ezekiel is confronting a traitor who compromised Judah's military security just before the Babylonian Captivity.

Yahweh is reviewing the transgressions of Ezekiel himself, and his daughters.

Yahweh is accusing Judah, or "Oholibah," of disloyalty.

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The line “Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished” (Isaiah 13:14-16) is an example of which common element in the Prophetic Books?

A general anti-natalist message.

An indisposition to violence.

An excoriation of the Spartans.

A condemnation of a foreign nation.

A critique of Ancient Near Eastern practices related to primogeniture and inheritance.

7 / 10

Christians associate key messiah figures in, particularly, Isaiah, with Jesus. Jews interpret these figures to be:

Isaiah himself.

Moses or Josiah.

Augustus.

Manasseh or Ahab.

Tiglath-Pileser III or Sennacherib.

8 / 10

Why do Christian bibles move the Prophetic books to the end of the Old Testament?

Due to an evidently unanimous, but poorly understood decision at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

The Council of Trent voted for the reorganization to differentiate Catholicism further from Judaism in the 1540s.

Koine Greek bibles were physically subdivided into three volumes with the canonization of the New Testament.

Christians believe that certain passages in the Prophetic Books herald the coming of Jesus.

The titles of the reorganized Prophetic books formed an acrostic in the Septuagint.

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Generally, how are the nations of Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Damascus, Moab, Philistia, Edom, Kedar, Elam, Amon, Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron described in the Prophetic Books?

With astute political analysis.

With violent hatred.

With humble curiosity.

With frigid indifference.

With confident dismissal.

10 / 10

The vast bulk of the Prophetic Books is made up of the writings of just three prophets. Who are these prophets?

Zephaniah, Habakkuk, and Jonah.

Obadiah, Micah, and Nahum.

Hosea, Joel, and Amos.

Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.

Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.

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