Teachings of the Catholic Church - Questions     

Bernard Anderson, “Israel’s Sacred History,” from Understanding the Old Testament:

1. According to Anderson, what part of Israel’s history is covered in Genesis 12-50?

2. What part of that history is covered in the books of Exodus and Deuteronomy?

3. What part of that history is covered in I and II Samuel, I-II Kings, and I-II Chronicles?

4. What part is covered in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah?

5. What part is covered in I-II Maccabees?

6. What are the four genres that the Old Testament books can be divided into?  (See the list of books on the second page of this reading.)

7. Are there differences between books in the Roman Catholic Old Testament and the books in the Protestant Old Testament?

8. What, according to Anderson, is the decisive event – the great watershed of Israel’s history?
 
 

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