旧约词汇 - F

Fall

The disobedience and expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden (Genesis 3). See Chapter 1.

Fear of God

(also Fear of Yahweh)A deep respect and reverence of God; an important theme in the Elohist fragments and in the wisdom literature. See Chapter 15.

Fertile crescent

The well-watered and fertile arc of land where early civilizations developed and prospered; it extends upward from the Nile valley in the west, through Palestine and Syria, and down the Tigris and Euphrates valleys to the Persian Gulf. See Introduction.

First Isaiah

Chapters 1-39 of the book of Isaiah, largely attributable to Isaiah of Jerusalem of the eighth century. See Chapter 10 Introduction, Chapter 10 First Isaiah.

Five Scrolls

(sometimes called the Five Megillot) A sub-group of books within the Writings section of the Hebrew Bible consisting of the Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther; each book or scroll is associated with a festival occasion in the life of Israel. See Part 3, Chapter 16.

Flood

The watery inundation during the time of Noah that destroyed all life on earth, except for Noah and the representative sample of created things that survived in the ark (Genesis 6-9). See Chapter 1.

Form criticism

(also called form critique) The analysis of literary units to discover the typical formal structures and patterns behind the present text in an attempt to recover the original sociological setting or "setting in life" (German Sitz im Leben) of that form of literature. See Part 2, Chapter 14.

Formal parallelism

(sometimes called synthetic parallelism) The type of poetic parallelism where the second line of a poetic couplet completes the thought of the first line.

Former Prophets

The technical name for the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings-possibly because it was assumed that prophets had written them. See Part 2 Introduction, Part 2 Former Prophets.