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Minor Prophets, Part 2: Babylonian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    Nahum
    23 Activities
    |
    3 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Zephaniah
    22 Activities
    |
    3 Assessments
  3. Lesson Three
    Habakkuk
    19 Activities
    |
    4 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    Joel and Josiah
    24 Activities
    |
    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Interpreting Prophecy
    34 Activities
    |
    7 Assessments
  6. Course Wrap-up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
    |
    1 Assessment

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Minor Prophets, Part 2: Babylonian Crisis Nahum In Front | Workbook: Honor, Shame, and YHWH
Lesson 1, Activity 20

In Front | Workbook: Honor, Shame, and YHWH

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

Every culture has its own way of defining and embodying honor and shame. We’ve learned about an ancient empire’s way of defining honor and shame—honor for the powerful and brutal, shame for the weak and conquered. Yet, Nahum warned of retributive judgment coming upon that empire from YHWH. 

  1. What are the dynamics of honor and shame in your world: your family, your neighborhood, your school or company, etc.?

God often expresses a different value system within the cultural dynamics of honor and shame. 

  1. Read 1 Corinthians 1:26-31. How would you compare God’s way of defining what is honorable and shameful with that of your world? (Think about the various values you’ve seen in the Old Testament—care of widows, foreigners, and the weak, use and abuse of authority, praise and worship for YHWH alone, etc.—and add what you’ve just read in 1 Corinthians.) 
  1. How do the dynamics of honor and shame in your world align with God’s?