Q1 Balancing poetic thought by stating opposing facts is called ______ parallelism.
Emblematic
Chiastic
Inverted
Antithetical

Q2 As a narrative, the Jonah story is functioning at the _____ level?
bottom
middle
ground
top

Q3 Which of the following is NOT an element of historical narrative?
setting
plot
historicism
character

Q4 How many percentage of biblical material is in the narrative form?
0.25
0.4
0.35
0.55

Q5 The most common single type of writing in the Bible is the _____ type.
Poetry
Narrative
Prophecy
Apocalypses

Q6 Which of these is the most prominent oracle in the earlier part of Amos?
Lawsuits
Woes
Promise
Salvation

Q7 Who among the following prophesied during the reign of Jeroboam II?
Jonah
Amos
Joel
Zechariah

Q8 Which of these prophets belonged to the period of restoration?
Obadiah
Nahum
Zechariah
Joel

Q9 Which of these prophets belonged to the Babyloniann domination era?
Habbakuk
Hosea
Amos
Nahum

Q10 Which of these prophets belonged to the Assyrian domination era?
Micah
Jeremiah
Joel
Zephaniah

Q11 If traced to the Akkadian root, the Hebrew word for prophet would be ______.
nabu
navi
hozeh
ro'eh

Q12 In. Galatians 3:3, 'flesh' is used to mean ____.
physical body
fallen human nature
outward ceremonial religion
man's sinful indignation

Q13 The study of the manner in which words are combined is ________.
lexical study
grammatical study
syntactical study
vocabulary study

Q14 Which of these will NOT help you arrive at the message of the Bible passage systematically.
The Speaker's Identity
The Author of the Passage
The Normative Nature
The Recipient of the Message

Q15 Which of these is NOT a branch of African hermeneutics?
Feminist hermeneutics
Deliverance
Black hermeneutics
Liberal hermeneutics

Q16 The contextual hermeneutics developed by Asians is called ______ hermeneutics.
liberation
new
Asian
Dalit

Q17 The hermeneutics and theology of praxis is called ______ hermeneutics.
liberation
romantic
phenomenological
African

Q18 ______ sees hermeneutics as an investigation into the hermeenutical function of speech.
existential
phenomenological
romantic
new

Q19 ______ laid the foundation for theological liberalism.
Humanism
Rationalism
Modernism
Empiricism

Q20 The hermeneutical principle developed by Friedrich Schleirmacher is called _____ hermeneutics.
existential
phenomenological
romantic
new

Q21 ______ gave birth to rationalism
Humanism
Enlightenment
Modernism
Empiricism

Q22 _______ developed the basic rules of midrashic interpretation.
Rabbi Akiba
Rabbi Hillel
Rabbai Shammai
Rabbi Yeshua

Q23 Which of the Jewish exegesis upholds the literal method?
Peshat
Midrashic
Pesher
Allegorical

Q24 Which Jewish exponent holds that shapes of letters had hidden meaning?
Rabbi Akiba
Rabbi Hillel
Rabbai Shammai
Rabbi Yeshua

Q25 Hermeneutics is said to begin from _____.
Isaiah
Nehemiah
Jeremiah
Ezra

Q26 Which of the following criticisms have to do with authorship?
Textual Criticism
Higher criticism
Lower criticism
Form criticism

Q27 _______ is also known as historical criticism.
Textual Criticism
Higher criticism
Lower criticism
Form criticism

Q28 Which of the following fields is the most controversial in biblical studies?
Textual Criticism
Higher criticism
Lower criticism
Form criticism

Q29 ______ precedes all other studies in biblical studies.
Textual Criticism
Higher criticism
Lower criticism
Canonical criticism

Q30 Which gap describes difference in attitude towards life?
philosophical
philological
cultural
historical