OT 101 Worksheet 4

Old Testament Survey 1

Worksheet 4

Please answer these questions according to the instructor’s notes given in class.

Name

First Name

Last Name

What is the outline of Genesis (including the title and range of verses for all 14 points)?

What was the first piece of property that the Israelites officially owned in Canaan?

What should the story of the search for a wife for Isaac be treated as instead of prescriptive?

Who was probably the unnamed servant of Abraham in Genesis 24?

What else was Rebekah in addition to being beautiful?

Who gave Abraham's servant permission to speak to Rebekah's family?

How did the servant respond when Laban and Bethuel approved his request to take Rebekah with him?

How did the servant identify Isaac when Rebekah saw him for the first time?

What did Isaac do even though he had just met Rebekah?

Which son of Keturah had descendants who are prominent later in the Old Testament?

What fact about Abraham is section 2.2 in Genesis given as proof for?

How did Isaac and Rebekah handle the situation of being childless?

What standard practice did God reverse when he talked to Rebekah about her twin sons?

What did Jacob probably do instead of staying home in the modern sense?

What New Testament verse calls Esau an immoral and irreverent person because he sold his birthright for just one meal?

What do liberal scholars believe about the story of Isaac lying about his wife in Genesis 26?

What fact was Isaac apparently blind to?

Why did Jacob object at first to his mother's plan for him to masquerade as his brother?

What statement is the key to Isaac's blessing that he gave to Jacob?

What fact did God confirm when he spoke to Jacob in a dream?

What sin did both Jacob and Esau commit?

Who had Jacob sleep with her slave like Sarah did?

Leah

Rachel

Both of the above

None of the above

What practice was Jacob trying to utilize when he peeled branches and set them in front of the animals where they mated?

Who confirmed Jacob's conclusion that he had seen God face to face when he wrestled with an unknown man?

Which two sons of Leah took revenge after her daughter Dinah was raped?

What is the key to understanding why Reuben slept with his father's concubine Bilhah?

What failure of Esau does section 2.4 in Genesis point back to?

What promise of God to Abraham does section 2.5 in Genesis reveal an initial fulfillment of?

What did Jacob's sons struggle with just like Isaac's sons?

What is perhaps the reason that Reuben intended to rescue Joseph and return him to Jacob?

What New Testament verse revokes the ancient practice of levirate marriage?

What is the real reason that the story of Judah and Tamar is included in Scripture?

What does running from temptation not mean that we won't end up being?

Which statement is probably true?

Potiphar felt bad for Joseph and wanted to watch over him.

Potiphar was furious at Joseph and punished him severely.

What is most likely the reason that God chose to make both the time of plenty and the time of famine seven years long?

Why did Joseph decide to hide his identity and not reveal himself to his brothers?

What are probably the two reasons that Joseph put his brothers' money back in their bags?

What sin does the text of Genesis clearly state that Joseph committed?

Who offered himself as a slave to Joseph in Benjamin's place?

Why did God send Joseph to Egypt?

What was the name of the land where the Israelites ended up that was probably on the eastern side of Egypt?

What does the reference to the scepter in Genesis 49:10 show?

What fact about God did Joseph show that he knew when he reassured his brothers that God had planned their evil for good?

What is the summary of Genesis?