Review the Reader's Guide (Assignments tab)
The "Review Guide" is provided to assist in your pursuit of a degree of mastery of the content and meaning of the prophetic books. Please note that this is not intended to be exhaustive. Nor is this intended to be memorized. Not all items are of equal significance. It goes without saying that an instrument designed to assess your mastery of the prophets will not likely ask you about all of this information but will select samples from among these items to assess your familiarity and facility in the literature.
Can you identify, describe, evaluate, or explain the significance of:
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People: Ahashuerus (485-465)Ahaz Alexander the Gt. (336-323) Amos Antiochus IV Epiphanes Arameans Artaxerxes I (465-424) Baruch Belshazzar Belteshazzar Cyrus II (539-529) Daniel Darius I (522-486) Elijah Ezekiel Gomer Habakkuk Haggai Hananiah, Mishael, & Azariah Hezekiah Hilkiah Hosea Hoshea Huldah Immanuel Isaiah Jehoiakim Jeremiah Jezreel Joash Joel Jonah Josiah Lo-ammi Lo-ruhamah Maher-shalal-hashbaz Malachi Medes Micah Nahum Nebuchadnezzar (605-562) Obadiah Persians Sargon II (722-705) Sennacherib (705-681) Shalmanseser III (859-824) Shalmaneser V (727-722) Shear-jashub Tiglath-pileser III (746-727) Uzziah Xerxes I (486-465) Zechariah Zedekiah Zephaniah Zerubbabel |
Places: Anathoth Aram Assyria Babylon Edom Gog Jerusalem Judea Magog Mari Media Meshech Nineveh Persia Samaria Susa Tubal Tyre Zion
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Subjects: Ancient of
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Can you discuss the significance of the following passages?
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Isaiah
1-2 |
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Jeremiah
1 |
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Lamentations
3 |
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Ezekiel
1 |
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Daniel
1 |
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Hosea
1-3 |
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Joel
1 |
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Amos
1 |
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Obadiah |
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Jonah 1-4 |
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Micah
2-3 |
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Nahum
1 |
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Habakkuk
1 |
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Zephaniah
1 |
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Haggai
1 |
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Zechariah
6 |
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Malachi 1-4 |
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Facility: Are you familiar enough with the content of each book to be able to recognize the source of significant (i.e., reflecting theme or teaching content) quotations.
For example, in which book will one find:
"He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening of our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed"
Analysis: Are you ready to discuss a unit of text from one of the sections identified above in terms of what the text says/means (its context (socio-political & theological-spiritual content (syntactical, theological)) and in terms of ways that meaning has significance for your contemporary situation?
Synthesis: Are you ready to discuss significant issues or themes.
For example,
In what ways is Amos 9:7-12 dependant upon Nathan's prophecy in 2 Samuel 7?
In what ways does Jeremiah's personal story reflect issues related to transformational leadership?In what ways and to what degree did you accomplish your personal objectives in taking this course?