Midterm Flashcards
(41 cards)
Birthright
Gives first born the responsibility and properties
Akedah
“Binding of Issac”
Supreme example of self-sacrifice
Circumcision
Must be done or they got cut off from the covenant
Oral tradition
Stories passed down generations by mouth
Patriarch
Fathers of the human race :
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Primary History
Creation to the exile
Genesis to Deuteronomy
Secondary History
Cronicler’s history
Creation - return&restoration
Yahwist
Authors of the earliest strands of traditions in the Pentateuch
Abram
Means “high father”
Changed to Abraham “father of multiple”
Sarah/Sarai
Mother of Isaac
Hagar
Abraham’s Concubine
Bore first son Ishmael
Concubine
Women who lives with a man but lower status than wife
Elohim
Another name for God in Hebrew bible
Mesopotamia
Between two rivers
Tigris&Euphrates
Israel
“My God prevail”
Isaac
“He laughs”
Father of Esau and Jacob
Jacob
“Supplanter”
Tricks Esau to give him birthright
Tricks Isaac to give him blessing
Later named Israel
Esau
“The hairy one”
Have up birthright
Stolen from his blessing
Isaac’s firstborn
12 Sons of Jacob
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin
12 tribes of Israel
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Manasseh, Ephraim, Benjamin
Levi
Tribe made up of priest received no land
Reuben
“See a son”
Lost first son privileges
Ephraim
Received Reuben’s privileges
Manasseh
“Causing to forget”