33. The order of the poetic books in our English Bibles came about from the order in the Greek Septuagint. 34. An eight verse unit of Hebrew poetry (as in Psalm 119) is called a tristich or tricolon. 35. One later (intertestamental) Jewish apocryphal work that can be classified as ‘wisdom literature’ is the Wisdom of Solomon. 36. The Egyptian wisdom work the Instruction of Amenemope bears a surprising resemblance to Proverbs 22:17-24:22. 37. The basic two literary genres of the Old Testament are prose and prophecy. 38. ‘Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful;’ (Psalm 1:1). 39. A literary feature that employs the same or similar sounding vowel sounds in accented positions 40. The primary Old Testament wisdom books are: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes. 41. What type of parallelism is the verse ‘To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding’ (Prov. 1:2). 42. “A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” (Prov. 10:1), is an example of synonymous parallelism. 43. The comparative wisdom texts in the ancient Near East (e.g Egypt & Mesopotamian) contain examples of both ‘speculative’ and ‘pessimistic’ wisdom. 44. In much of the 20th century, many critical scholars have believed that ‘wisdom literature’ in the Old Testament represented a tradition that was a foreign secular import into Israelite culture. 45. Which of the following characteristic(s) may serve as a better help for biblical exegesis of poetic texts than meter. 46. The Hebrew language depends largely upon rhyme for its rhythmic quality. 47. Which book is not classified as a poetical book in the OT 48. The phrase in Judges 15:16 “With the jawbone of an ass/ have I mightily raged…”, would be a bicolon or distich. 49. Hebrew poetic ‘meter’ is primarily based on ‘rhyme’. 50. A stich is a term for a Hebrew poetic unit that is comparable to a colon. 51. The two marks of Hebrew poetry for Adele Berlin are ‘parallelism’ and ‘terseness’. 52. Qinah or dirge meter was seen traditionally as the meter of Old Testament laments. 53. Moving beyond Lowth’s views, modern interpreters now believe that parallelism operates on many levels including: grammatical, lexical, and phonological. 54. Poetry is highly stylized language that is usually easy to distinguish from prose stories. 55. Imagery in texts as another term for figurative language, includes numerous devices like metaphor, simile and allegory among others. 56. The ‘fear of the Lord’ in the book of Deuteronomy has little similarity to the ‘fear of the Lord’ described in the wisdom books. 57. The language of theology is deeply enriched by OT poetic imagery for its power of allusion reminds us of the more hidden and mysterious truths which theology seeks to express. 58. “The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.” (Ps. 114:4) is an example of O’Connor’s ‘antithetic parallelism’. 59. Lowth defined parallelism as the occurrence of pairs of lines in which the words or phrases in one line correspond in some way to those in the other. 60. Some synonyms of ‘wisdom’ do give the word a more intellectual slant. 61. According to Whybray, in the book of Proverbs ‘wisdom’ is always ‘life-skill’. 62. Bishop Lowth identified five main types of Hebrew parallelism. 63. The Song of Solomon is never associated with the wisdom books in the Old Testament. 64. Ecclesiastes is an example of ‘speculative wisdom’. 65. Some scholars believe that a professional class of ‘wise men’ or ‘sages’ existed in Israel along with the prophets and priests based on texts such as Jeremiah 18:18. 66. The use of the name Yahweh in the phrase the ‘fear of the Lord’ connects biblical wisdom literature with Israel’s covenant God. 67. There is no disagreement among scholars about what constitutes Hebrew poetry.
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