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Chapter 3-9 Flashcards

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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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J

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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

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Symbolic of the covenant of god with Abraham.

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Form criticism

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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

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How sources were combined into larger units

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Redaction criticism

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After sources were shaped into their final form

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Tell

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An ancient mound consisting of accumulated deposits of successive human occupations

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Herman gunkel

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Developed form criticism in the early 20th century

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Kirta

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An epic similar to the Jacob story. (Gen 12-50) found at Ugarit.

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El

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Common Semitic word meaning “god”. Chief god of the Canaanite pantheon.

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Ugaritic

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The language of Ugarit, active until 13 century bce

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Endogamy

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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

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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

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Where God appears to someone

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Tetragrammaton

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Four letters yhwh. A form of the verb “to be”

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Yahweh

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God’s proper personal name. Ex.3:14-15

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Passover

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The festival of unleavened bread and sacrifice of the firstborn lamb. Exodus 12:1-27

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Reed sea

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Red Sea. Two northern arms of the Red Sea which were wetlands.

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Baal

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Found in ugaritic myth. King of the gods. Shift from El to Baal in 1550-1200.

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Manna

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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

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Horeb located here
East of the gulf of Aqaba
Could be northwestern Arabia

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Suzerainty treaty

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One party, the suzerain, is superior to the other, the vassal

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Ten commandments

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“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

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Contract

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Code of Hammurapi

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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

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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

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More general laws

Whoever curses his father or mother shall be put to death (ex 21.16)

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Tabernacle

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Dwelling

Portable sanctuary envisioned by P for the wilderness period

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Ritual Decalogue

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Entirely concerned with worship
Ex 34:10-26
Suggests formation after settlement

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Day if attonement

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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

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The sons if the community are symbolically transferred to this goat, which is then released in the wilderness.

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Holiness code

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Lev 17-26

“You shall be holy, for I Yahweh your god are holy” lev 19.2

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Cherubim

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Winged divine beings seated on top of the ark

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Ark of the covenant

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Contains: Ten Commandments, manna, Aaron’s staff

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The golden calf

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Ex 32
False image?
Festival to Yahweh?
Pedestal for god?
Conflict between Moses and Aaron?
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Tithe

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“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

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Goel, translated “redeemer”

The victim’s nearest make relative who has legal responsibilities toward the deceased.

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Cities of refuge

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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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