Study Guide for Thursday's Test

Concepts and terms:

Ethical Monotheism

God as immanent vs. God as transcendent

Covenant/election: Exodus story

Revelation

Abram/Abraham, Moses

Meaning of the 10 commandments

Prophets' role in Israel's history: two stages or genre's of prophecy

Nathan, Elijah; Amos, Isaiah

"Wisdom" literature: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes

Kosher, Kabbalah; Orthodox, Reform, Conservative Judaism

Talmud

Judaism of Jesus' day: Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, Essenes, Zealots

Jesus' ethics and apocalyptic ideas

Paul - travels, ideas (theo-anthropology), life

Early church - split between Jewish and Gentile Christians

Luther and the Reformation: lasting significance, key ideas

Indulgences and 95 theses

Luther's life story

Sola fide, Sola Scriptura, "Protestant spirit"

Apostles' Creed: know the theological ideas of each part

Texts:

Old Testament texts in Genesis, Exodus, 2 Samuel, Amos, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes

Recognize and comment on a Talmud text

New Testament texts: Matthew (Jesus' ethics), 1 Corinthians