A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible: Second EditionPalmer, Frank Nelson
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A Bird's-Eye View of the Bible: Second Edition
Palmer, Frank Nelson
Bible -- Study and teaching
From personal knowledge and reading, from perusal of articles in Bible
helps and dictionaries, write out in your own language a
two-hundred-word description of the book as a whole, its purpose, its
nature, etc.
SECTION II. NARRATIVES
(To be memorized and told, with care in regard to all details.)
1. Description of Job and His Household. Chapter 1.
2. First Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 1.
3. First Test and Result. 1.
4. Second Interview between Jehovah and Satan. 2.
5. Second Test and Result. 2.
6. The Three Friends. 2.
SECTION III. GEOGRAPHY
Locate by chapter and verse, naming the thought, or fact, or person
connected therewith, the following geographical terms: Uz, Sabeans,
Chaldeans, Temanite, Shuhite, Naamathite, Buzite, Tema, Sheba, Ophir,
Rahab, Ethiopia. (Locate chapter and verse by reference to concordance.)
(Make record in blank book on same page as map.)
Draw full-page map, locating each place as far as known.
SECTION IV. NATURE OF JOB'S DISEASE
Write out the descriptions as narrated in the following verses: 7:5;
13:28; 19:20; 30:17, 18, 30. Describe in your own words the
characteristics of the disease as noted in these verses. Give name of
disease, as agreed upon by interpreters.
SECTION V. SPEAKERS AND SPEECHES
In order to secure a skeleton idea of the book write out the names of
the speakers in consecutive order and the chapters containing the
speeches. Space in each line could be reserved to fill in at a later
study the general thought of each speech. At the close make any
observations regarding the number and order of speeches. The following
is a sample of the first four speeches:
_Historical Introduction. Chapters I and 2_
1. Job. Chapter 3.
2. Eliphaz. Chapters 4 and 5.
3. Job. Chapters 6 and 7.
4. Bildad. Chapter 8.
SECTION VI. THE ARGUMENT
Analyze the argument of Chapters 3 and 4. The following is a sample:
_Job's First Speech. Chapter 3_
1. A curse upon the day of his birth. Verses 1-10.
2. He questions why he should not have died at birth. Verses 11-19.
SECTION VII. THE CONCLUSION
Give narrative, with details, as recorded in Chapter 42:7-17.
SECTION VIII. QUESTIONS
1. Name three general lessons taught in the book about suffering.
2. What two things did Job do at the close of the speeches?
3. How did Job's condition after the test compare with that previous to
the test?
4. Name eight facts regarding Satan gleaned from Chapters 1 and 2.
5. Locate and commit Job's two sublime statements of faith. (See
Chapters 13 and 19.)
6. Name five kinds of people that Job helped. 29:12-16.
7. Name six classes of people who spurned him in his trouble. 19:13-19.
8. What two general statements about man does Job make? 14:1.
9. Select any six phrases that serve to indicate the life and customs of
Job's time.
10. What writers of the Bible refer to Job and what is their estimate?
11. Read Chapter 38 and write out your impressions of it in concise
statements, using fifty words.
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