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Cosmology

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Accounts of creation

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Anthropomorphic

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As if God were human

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Divine council

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The assembly of gods

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Elohim

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God, used in the singular

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Enkidu

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Friend of Gligamesh. A wild man who was seduced by shamhat and brought in to civilization.

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Enuma Elish

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“When above”- first two words of the poem. A work in 7 tablets how the god Marduk became king of the gods and chief god in Babylon. Often called the “Babylonian creation epic”, it is actually a hymn in praise of Marduk.

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Gilgamesh

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A legendary ruler if the central Mesopotamian city of Uruk

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Marduk

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From enuma Elish

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Myth

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Narratives in which the principal characters are gods, to explain how the world as they understood it came to be.

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Sabbath

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The day of rest

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Tiamat

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The goddess of the salt waters. Her body was used by Marduk to make the cosmos.

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Tree of life

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In garden of Eden. Will give one immortality and even eternal youth. The seven branched menorah is probably a stylized presentation of it.

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Tree of the knowledge of good and evil

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Multiple interpretations: a merism- a totality is expressed by mentioning the opposite exvtremes. Would be equivalent to barring them from divine omniscience; intellectual maturity; sexual connotations “to know” and have control over fertility.

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Yahweh

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The sacred and personal name of god. Substitution is “the LORD”

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D

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Deuteronomic- found entirely in the book of Deuteronomy. Discovered during reign of Josiah, king of Judah in late 7th century bce. Like E, probably originated in northern kingdom

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E

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Elohist- name from Elohim (God) until revelation of Yahweh. Fragmented because joined with J. Deity is more remote- dreams & angels. Mountain is Horeb. Associated with Ephraim in the northern kingdom.

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Yahwist- god is vivid anthropomorphisms, very human like ways. Judah area is dominant. Theme of 3fold promise. Written in 10th century. Fullest of 4 sources

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P

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Priestly- emphasis on matters of ritual observance and ritual. Divine rest & sabbath observance. God is Elohim until revelation. Later el shadday. Most remote and transcendent and never appearing directly. Manifest in god’s “glory”. Thematic series of covenants: rainbow, circumcision & sabbath.
Final editor. Derived from the traditions of the temple. From 6th century bce.

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Documentary hypothesis

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4 distinct documents. Source analysis. Hypothetical. Stemmed from different names for god. Created by Julius wellhausen in 1878

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Etiology

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Explanation of a phenomenon

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Genealogy

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A listing of a family line. Mostly attributed to P. Segmented: traces several fodder want lines from one ancestor
Linear: traces one line through several generations.

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Pentateuch

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First 5 books, from the Greek word for 5 works or books

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Utnapishtim

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A hero in the Gilgamesh epic that tells about the flood. First modern discovery of parallel to biblical traditions

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Wellhausen

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Creator of the document hypothesis in 1878

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Circumcision
Symbolic of the covenant of god with Abraham.
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Form criticism
Seeks to identify various literary genres and then to classify a passage within one of those genres. What is said, how it is said, and in what setting it it said. Identifying a form, or genre, and then determining it's function in its original context. I.e. Etiological narrative. The childless woman.
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Tradition history
How sources were combined into larger units
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Redaction criticism
After sources were shaped into their final form
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Tell
An ancient mound consisting of accumulated deposits of successive human occupations
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Herman gunkel
Developed form criticism in the early 20th century
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Kirta
An epic similar to the Jacob story. (Gen 12-50) found at Ugarit.
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El
Common Semitic word meaning "god". Chief god of the Canaanite pantheon.
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Ugaritic
The language of Ugarit, active until 13 century bce
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Endogamy
Marriage with one's ethnic, cultural or religious community, for the survival if one's ethnic cultural or religious community.
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Sinai or Horeb
After the escape from Egypt, they arrive at this mountain where god gives them a series of laws, including the 10 commandments, and instructions about religious rituals and ritual objects
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Theophany
Where God appears to someone
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Tetragrammaton
Four letters yhwh. A form of the verb "to be"
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Yahweh
God's proper personal name. Ex.3:14-15
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Passover
The festival of unleavened bread and sacrifice of the firstborn lamb. Exodus 12:1-27
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Reed sea
Red Sea. Two northern arms of the Red Sea which were wetlands.
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Baal
Found in ugaritic myth. King of the gods. Shift from El to Baal in 1550-1200.
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Manna
What is this? Ex 16.4-5,35 Unfamiliar substance to the Israelites A supernatural phenomenon, bread from heaven, divine care for the Israelites until they reached Canaan.
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Midian
Horeb located here East of the gulf of Aqaba Could be northwestern Arabia
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Suzerainty treaty
One party, the suzerain, is superior to the other, the vassal
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Ten commandments
"Ten words" Decalogue Ex 20.2-17, deut 5.6-21, ex 34.10-26 Dated later than the exodus as for agrarian people and no monarchy
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Covenant
Contract
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Code of Hammurapi
``` One of the very first ancient law codes- around 1750 bce. 300 laws of complex societies Marriage is the longest section Divinely given Consist if criminal and civil laws ```
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Casuistic law
Covenant code consists lately of this Deal with the particular If a man leaves a pit open...an an OC falls into it... (Ex 21.33-34
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Apodicdic laws
More general laws | Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death (ex 21.16)
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Tabernacle
Dwelling | Portable sanctuary envisioned by P for the wilderness period
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Ritual Decalogue
Entirely concerned with worship Ex 34:10-26 Suggests formation after settlement
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Day if attonement
Yom kippur Lev 16 Most solemn observance on the Jewish calendar The ritual serves to purify the priest, the sanctuary and the people
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Scapegoat
The sons if the community are symbolically transferred to this goat, which is then released in the wilderness.
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Holiness code
Lev 17-26 | "You shall be holy, for I Yahweh your god are holy" lev 19.2
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Cherubim
Winged divine beings seated on top of the ark
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Ark of the covenant
Contains: Ten Commandments, manna, Aaron's staff
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The golden calf
``` Ex 32 False image? Festival to Yahweh? Pedestal for god? Conflict between Moses and Aaron? ```
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Tithe
"A tenth" 10% of all agricultural produce and livestock were to belong to Yahweh Lev 27.30-33
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Avenger of blood
Goel, translated "redeemer" | The victim's nearest make relative who has legal responsibilities toward the deceased.
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Cities of refuge
Six cities, three in each side of the Jordan valley. Provide asylum for someone who has taken another's life, until the matter of guilt has been resolved. If found unintentional, then the killed is allowed to live in the city of refuge.

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