Moses Flashcards
(27 cards)
What is Exodus greek for?
Departure
Who adopted Moses?
Levite Family
What is Moses’ commitment?
To fight injustice
Where the burning bush took place
Mt. Horeb
Who did God send as Moses’ spokesman
Aaron
Title of the Passover Meal
Seder
Bread is aka
matzo
The thing that saves the children
Pascal Lamb
What the Israelites took on the journey
Joseph’s bones
The name of the food that helps the Israelites
Manna
What is theophany?
powerful experience with god
Who goes to get the 10 Commandments with Moses?
Joshua
What is the Golden Calf
Idol created by Israelites
What does Moses set up outside of the camp to communicate with God?
Meeting Tent
What are placed in the Ark of the Covenant
Tablets
Were was their camp?
Moab overlooking Canaan
What was the Promised land
Canaan
What is God’s reason behind having them stay in a desert?
a way of testing loyalty of god and to prepare them
Moses death is the final entry in the what?
The Torah
Give three examples of the similarities between Jesus and Moses
Egypt- Moses grows up and leaves, Jesus is taken there
Both figures retreat into the desert
Both communicate with God in an intense and communicative level and a Paternal Relationship
Both bookend Passover- Paschal lamb is slaughtered, Jesus becomes the Paschal Lamb
Both connect with slavery
Manna in the desert, Eucharist is the Bread of Life
What were two natural things that connected us to god?
Desert because it tests you and Mountains because of their vicinity to the heavens
What is the name given by God to Moses?
I am who I am
How do we interpret the name given by god to moses?
God is the ultimate being
What is the Hebrew word for the name given by god to moses
Yahweh
