Test 1 Significance

Question 1

Homeostatic nature of oral cultures

Answer 1

• Get rid of info that isn’t important anymore
• geneology changes to reflect society
• past interpreted in light of the present
• gilgamesh ?

Question 2

agonistic quality of oral poetry

Answer 2

• boasting and insults common
• challenges before combat
• confrontation between Agamemnon and Achilles
• action frequently violent and gory

Question 3

geography of the Tigris -Euphrates valley

Answer 3

• Where gilgamesh was made
• surrounded by mountains and desert
• inhabitants at the mercy of nature
• few natural resources except water, soil, and clay, trade essential

Question 4

the harlot in Gilgamesh

Answer 4

• temple prostitute and seducer of Enkidu
• sex and knowledge makes him man
• links him to religion
• makes him physically weaker and less hairy
• takes him to shepherds to give him clothes, food, and drink

Question 5

Utnapishtim and Noah

Answer 5

• Two different creation stories
• Noah is chosen by god b/c he is righteous, God wanted to wipe out evil
• Ut is randomly chosen, God’s were bothered by the noise humans made

Question 6

early Hebrew society

Answer 6

Descendants of Abel

Question 7

Documentary hypothesis

Answer 7

-How and when the Torah was put together
-combination of several sources
E=text from the north
J=text from Judah
P=priestly from Jerusalem
D=Deuteronomist from priests of Shiloh
-ex. is the two accounts of the creation

Question 8

Compilation of the Old Testament

Answer 8

• To preserve all traditions and restore the religion of the Hebrews
• to restore temple or produce a text that replaces the temple
• to centralize worship in the hands of the Temple priests of Jerusalem

Question 9

Babylonian exile

Answer 9

-exile of Hebrews, which led them to compile the old testament

Question 10

polytheism

Answer 10

-belief in multiple gods as shown by the greek gods and gods in Gilgamesh

Question 11

six days of creation

Answer 11

-six days to create the universe and then rest on the seventh day

Question 12

the expulsion from Eden

Answer 12

• were Adam and Eve have awareness?
• was the fall when they ate the apple
• apple really make them more like gods if things are harder?

Question 13

orality vs. literacy

Answer 13

• uses phrases instead of words “horse breaker Hector”
• redundant
• oral poet was a historian, entertainer, preserver of values,
• everything is related to human life “catalogue of ships”
• situational rather than abstract

Question 14

role of language in Gen1-11

Answer 14

• language is power/ godlike

- adam names all the creatures

Question 15

chaos waters

Answer 15

• part of the Sumerian and Greek theology creation stories

- out of chaos, structure and order emerges

Question 16

covenant

Answer 16

• God’s promise to Abraham to give him land and give him an everlasting family
• Issac is the embodiment of the covenant

Question 17

the rainbow

Answer 17

-God’s promise to not create another flood that will destroy everything

Question 18

Tower of Babel

Answer 18

• humans trying to be like God
• Separates their languages
• people are pushing past their limits

Question 19

sacrifice of Issac

Answer 19

• devotion and loyalty to god
• sacrificed issac in head and heart
• must be able to give up the promise to keep it

Question 20

trickery in Genesis

Answer 20

• allows the promise to go to the youngest son
• esau and jacob
• joseph and his brothers

Question 21

Jacob’s ladder

Answer 21

“stairway to heaven”

• connection to the heavens
• god’s way of communicating with jacob

Question 22

Jacob renamed Israel

Answer 22

• renamed after wrestling with god

- “He who prevails with God”

Question 23

the younger son in the OT

Answer 23

• Shows that God doesn’t conform to human culture

- preference went to jacob and joseph

Question 24

Joseph and his brothers

Answer 24

• Joseph’s brothers try to kill him
• ends up a slave and then the most powerful man in Egypt
• evil was intended but God intended it for good

Question 25

Yahweh

Answer 25

• “I am who I am”
• God can’t be defined or constrained
• Is everywhere

Question 26

the hardening of Pharoah’s heart

Answer 26

• shows God’s power’

- not even the king is more powerful than god

Question 27

Passover

Answer 27

-celebration of the Israelites freedom from Egypt

Question 28

Mosaic covenant

Answer 28

Covenant made on Mt. Sinai

-Established the 10 commandments

Question 29

the judgement of paris

Answer 29

• Paris picks Aphrodite as the prettiest god, in return he gets to have Helen
• Launches the Trojan war

Question 30

Mycenaean survivals in Homer

Answer 30

• oral tradition descended form Mycenaean period
• boar’s tusk helmet
• body shields
• bronze weapons
• chariots in battle

Question 31

kleos

Answer 31

-fame and glory

warriors want the most fame and glory

Question 32

time

Answer 32

honor

-honor can’t be lost or it will all be lost

Question 33

the best of the Achaeans

Answer 33

question of who is the best of the Achaeans

-Agamemnon or Achilles

Question 34

creation in the theogony

Answer 34

• Creation of the Greek gods
• First Chaos then the creation of Earth love, day and night, mountains and the sea
• Gaia and Heaven mate, the titans are created
• Rhea and chronos mate and have the greek gods
• Zeus kills his father

Question 35

gods and humans in the Illiad

Answer 35

• Gods’ favor humans
• however don’t piss off the gods
• Gods take sides
• gods protect and or look out for certain humans
• athena and achilles
• Aphrodite and paris

Question 36

the death of patroculus

Answer 36

-sends Achilles into battle, turns the tide of battle

Question 37

Achilles’ shield

Answer 37

depicts life during peacetime,

-more to life than war

Question 38

The chorus in Agamemnon

Answer 38

• made up of old men of argos and their leader
• provide the background of the story
• are seen the most/ heard of the most