Chapter 5 The Land: Finding Hope for the Future in
God's Gift
Concept A Read pp. 94 to 96
Answer Review on pg 96
1. What is the point of the analogy about the teen who
was jailed?
2. When was most of the Old Testament edited and
rewritten?
3. How did the Deuteronomists try to answer the
question, “How did we end up as exiles in Babylon?”
4. What books of the Bible are Deuteronomic History?
a.
b.
c.
d.
5. In their history of self-examination, where did the
people see their hope?
a.
b.
c.
6. Activity 1 pg. 96
7. Self - Examination
a. Handout _____”O Lord, You Have Searched Me
and Known Me"
Concept B Read pp. 96 to 104 Answer Review on pg. 104
1. Of what did the story of Joshua remind the exiled
Jews in Babylon centuries later?
2. What did Joshua represent?
3. Activity 2 pg. 97
4. What was the point of Rahab’s story?
5. What was the point of the story of the crossing of
the Jordan River?
6. What was the point of Israel in the promised land?
7. What is the point of the story “and the Walls Came
Tumblin Down”?
8. What is the ban?
9. What is important to remember about the stories of
the battles?
10. List 2 Canaanite practices?
a.
b.
11. What did the Deuteronomists know?
12. Why was the ban included in scriptural accounts?
13. What does” Breaking the Ban: Defeat at Ai
indicate"?
14. What does “Sun Standing Still” mean?
15. What is the point of the story?
16. What is important to remember about the Book of
Joshua?
17. What custom has come from having cities as
refuge?
18. Who was Joshua to the Deuteronomists?
Concept C Read pp. 105 to 112 Answer Review on pg. 112
A. Introduction
1. What period of history does the Book of Judges
cover?
2. When was it put together?
3. What is the Book of Judges about?
4. What cycle did the Israelites experience?
a.
b.
c.
d.
5. What is a Judge?
6. How many Judges are mentioned?
7. Name the 6 major judges
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
B. Deborah
1. Identify
a. Deborah
b. Barak
c. King Jaben
d. Sisera
e. Jael
2. How did the Israelites defeat the Canaanites?
3. What is the point of the story of Deborah?
C. Gideon
1. Complete the cycle involving Gideon
a. Sin
b. Disaster
c. Repentance
d. Deliverance
2. What happened when Gideon was threshing wheat
in his family's winepress?
3. What is Gideon told to do?
4. How do the Israelites react?
5. What does Gideon do?
6. What is the sign?
7. How is Gideon’s victory really God’s?
8. How did Gideon’s 300 man army defeat the
Midianites?
9. Why wouldn’t Gideon accept being a king?
10. What did Gideon create and what is it?
11. Who was Gideon’s son?
D. Resisting the Lure of the Canaanites
E. Handout _____ Life in Canaan: Caught in the Middle
F. Samson
1. What are the stories of Samson thought to be?
2. What truth is in the story of Samson?
3. Who were the Philistines?
4. What is significant regarding Samson’s birth?
5. What is a Nazarite?
6. Who is Delilah?
7. What is the story of Samson about?
8. Why did the Deuteronomists list Samson as a
Judge?
a.
b.
Concept D Read pp. 112 to 116 Answer Review on pg. 116
A. Ruth
1. What is Ruth about?
2. What is the setting?
3. What is the purpose?
a.
b.
4. Trace the family tree
Ruth and Boaz
Obed
Jesse
David
5. Why did the post-exilic author write the story of
Ruth?
B. An Important Inclusion
Conclusion
A God of Surprises pg. 117
1. What do the Book of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth
Hanv in common?
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