Midterm

Question 0

Birthright

Answer 0

Gives first born the responsibility and properties

Question 1

Akedah

Answer 1

“Binding of Issac”

Supreme example of self-sacrifice

Question 2

Circumcision

Answer 2

Must be done or they got cut off from the covenant

Question 3

Oral tradition

Answer 3

Stories passed down generations by mouth

Question 4

Patriarch

Answer 4

Fathers of the human race :

Abraham
Isaac
Jacob

Question 5

Primary History

Answer 5

Creation to the exile

Genesis to Deuteronomy

Question 6

Secondary History

Answer 6

Cronicler’s history

Creation - return&restoration

Question 7

Yahwist

Answer 7

Authors of the earliest strands of traditions in the Pentateuch

Question 8

Abram

Answer 8

Means “high father”

Changed to Abraham “father of multiple”

Question 9

Sarah/Sarai

Answer 9

Mother of Isaac

Question 10

Hagar

Answer 10

Abraham’s Concubine

Bore first son Ishmael

Question 11

Concubine

Answer 11

Women who lives with a man but lower status than wife

Question 12

Elohim

Answer 12

Another name for God in Hebrew bible

Question 13

Mesopotamia

Answer 13

Between two rivers

Tigris&Euphrates

Question 14

Israel

Answer 14

“My God prevail”

Question 15

Isaac

Answer 15

“He laughs”

Father of Esau and Jacob

Question 16

Jacob

Answer 16

“Supplanter”
Tricks Esau to give him birthright
Tricks Isaac to give him blessing
Later named Israel

Question 17

Esau

Answer 17

“The hairy one”
Have up birthright
Stolen from his blessing
Isaac’s firstborn

Question 18

12 Sons of Jacob

Answer 18

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin

Question 19

12 tribes of Israel

Answer 19

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Manasseh, Ephraim, Benjamin

Question 20

Levi

Answer 20

Tribe made up of priest received no land

Question 21

Reuben

Answer 21

“See a son”

Lost first son privileges

Question 22

Ephraim

Answer 22

Received Reuben’s privileges

Question 23

Manasseh

Answer 23

“Causing to forget”

Question 24

Potiphar

Answer 24

Bought Joseph

Question 25

Joseph

Answer 25

Youngest of Jacob’s sons
Favorite son
Sold by brothers into slavery

Question 26

Joseph’s bone

Answer 26

Joseph asked to be buried in their land

Buried in Shechem

Question 27

Zipporah

Answer 27

Moses’ wife

Saved his life by circumcising son

Question 28

Jethro/ Reuel

Answer 28

Moses’ father in law

Question 29

Apodictic law

Answer 29

Divine law

Question 30

Casuistic law

Answer 30

Case described followed by a statement of penalty

Question 31

Decalogue

Answer 31

Ten Commandments

Question 32

Covenant Code

Answer 32

Second law codes given to Moses start with “if”

Question 33

Deuteronomic Code

Answer 33

Contains religious ceremonies and ritual purity , civil and criminal law and conduct of war

Question 34

Exodus

Answer 34

Israel left Egypt

Mass departure of people

Question 35

Holiness Code

Answer 35

Leviticus chapters b/c it’s repetitive use of holy

Question 36

Mamma

Answer 36

Israel’s main food source would fall from the sky

Question 37

Parity treaty

Answer 37

Treaty in ancient near east

Question 38

Priestly code

Answer 38

One of the four original sources of Pentateuch

Question 39

Mertneptah Stele

Answer 39

Pharaoh who ruled Egypt

Question 40

Treaty between superior and inferior

Answer 40

Suzerainty treaty