Key Terms Ch. 1

Question 1

the second son of Adam and Eve; he was murdered by his brother Cain

Answer 1

Abel

Question 2

the first male who God created; he and his mate, Eve, disobeyed God and were expelled from the garden of Eden

Answer 2

Adam/adamah

Question 3

the god of the freshwater ocean in the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story

Answer 3

Apsu

Question 4

the name of a Mesopotamian city with a tower as told in Genesis 11; means “gate of God”

Answer 4

Babel

Question 5

divine favor and approval; a mark of God’s grace and evidence of his protecting and prospering presence

Answer 5

blessing

Question 6

the first son of Adam and Eve; he murdered his brother Abel

Answer 6

Cain

Question 7

the disordered state of unformed matter that existed before the universe was ordered

Answer 7

Chaos

Question 8

a model of the structure of the physical universe; the Israelites viewed the world as an inhabitable region surrounded by water

Answer 8

cosmology

Question 9

a pact or formal agreement between two parties in which there are mutual obligations and expectations

Answer 9

covenant

Question 10

what has been brought into being; the Hebrew Bible attributes this to Israel’s God

Answer 10

creation

Question 11

consisting of the “sons of God,” a council of angels who surrounded God and served perhaps as his deliberative assembly

Answer 11

Divine Council

Question 12

the place God located the first created humans, Adam and Eve

Answer 12

Eden

Question 13

a Babylonian story of creation, featuring Apsu, Tiamat, and Marduk

Answer 13

Enuma Elish

Question 14

the first female who God created; her name means “life”

Answer 14

Eve

Question 15

the disobedience and expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden

Answer 15

Fall

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Flood

Question 17

a list or family tree of ancestors or descendants

Answer 17

genealogy

Question 18

a Babylonian epic centering on Gilgamesh, an ancient king of Uruk; the eleventh tablet of this epic contains a story of a flood that has parallels to the biblical story of Noah and the ark

Answer 18

Gilgamesh Epic

Question 19

one of the sons of Noah; he abused his father and Canaan, his son, was cursed for it

Answer 19

Ham

Question 20

phrase deriving from Genesis 1:26-7; God created humankind in his own image

Answer 20

Image of God

Question 21

a literary technique that begins and ends a unit of text with the same or similar words to create wholeness and literary closure

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inclusion

Question 22

one of the sons of Noah, he was blessed because with Shem he covered his father’s nakedness

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Japheth

Question 23

a compound divine name; a translation of YHWH Elohim

Answer 23

Lord God

Question 24

the chief god of the Babylonians and patron god of Babylon; he is the hero-god of the Enuma Elish

Answer 24

Marduk

Question 25

a story, theme, object, or character regarded as embodying a foundational aspect of a culture

Answer 25

myth

Question 26

built a boat and survived the Flood with his family and representatives of the animal world; God made a covenant with him, promising never again to destroy the world with a flood

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Noah

Question 27

in classical Christian thought, the fundamental state of sinfulness and guilt, inherited from the first man Adam, that infects all of humanity but can be removed through depending on Christ

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Original Sin

Question 28

the account of earliest events found in Genesis 1-11

Answer 28

Primeval Story

Question 29

the seventh day of the week, a day of rest and worship; extends from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; it was the sign of the Mosaic covenant

Answer 29

Sabbath

Question 30

one of the three sons of Noah, he was chosen for special blessing; he was an ancestor of Abraham

Answer 30

Shem

Question 31

the female saltwater ocean goddess who fought Marduk; out of her body were created heaven and earth

Answer 31

Tiamat

Question 32

the ten "generations" used in Genesis as a way of structuring the history told in the book

Answer 32

Toledot

Question 33

the tower of Genesis 11 built by humans and interpreted by God as an act of defiance

Answer 33

Tower of Babel

Question 34

the seas conceived as monsters who challenged YHWH's power and authority

Answer 34

waters of chaos

Question 35

of Sumerian origin, a Mesopotamian pyramidal-staged temple tower of which the tower of Babel was one

Answer 35

Ziggurat