BI 202 Test 3 Books

Jonah

- Authorship: Self
- Date: During the reign of Jeroboam II
- Purpose: Disobeying God has consequences, To reveal that salvation is for all nations

Jonah, Amos, Hosea

Northern Kingdom Prophets

Amos

- Authorship: Self
- Recipients: Northern People - Israel (from the Southern Kingdom writing to the Northern Kingdom)
- Date: During the reign of Jeroboam II

Hosea

- Authorship: Self
- Date: Decades right before Assyrian captivity
- Purpose: To illustrate the unfaithfulness of Israel to Jehovah, To illustrate God's faithfulness
- Relationship with Gomer

Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Obadiah, Jeremiah (Lamentations), Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk

Southern Kingdom Prophets

Joel

- Authorship: Self
- Date: 835 BC
- Purpose: To encourage repentance before the "Day of the Lord

Isaiah

- Authorship: Self
- Date: 740 to 700 BC
- Most Messianic book of the OT

Micah

- Authorship: Self
- Recipients: Both Kingdoms (Primarily Judah)
- Date: 700 BC
- Purpose: To remind God's people of their sins and future restoration ("Hear" and "Hear ye" used 3 times)

Obadiah

- Authorship: Self
- Recipients: Edomites (descendants of Esau)
- Date: 586 BC

Jeremiah

- Authorship: Self
- Prophesied 40 years and foretold Jerusalem's fall
- Announced 70 year captivity
- "The Weeping Prophet

Lamentations

- Authorship: Jeremiah (eyewitness to the destruction of Jerusalem)
- Purpose: To picture Jeremiah's sorrow over the sin of Israel and the destruction of the monarchy (Weeping over the destruction of Jerusalem)

Nahum

- Authorship: Self
- Date: Between 663 and 612 BC
- Purpose: To describe the destruction of Nineveh (Assyria)

Habakkuk

- Authorship: Self
- Describes why evil goes unpunished and why God reproves evil with a greater evil? (Theodicy)

Daniel

- Authorship: Self
- Style: Apocalyptic and Prophetic
- Purpose: To remind God's people that God rules in the affairs of human government, setting up and disposing of rulers by His sovereign choice

Ezekiel

- Authorship: Self
- Of a priestly lineage
- Carried into exile (597 BC, before the Babylonian captivity)
- Ministered to the exiles while Daniel spoke to the king

Zephaniah

- Authorship: Self
- Day of the Lord used more than any other OT book.
- Purpose: To warn of approaching doom and to promise deliverance.