Passover Flashcards
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Passover term refers to 3 different events
- Passing over of the Angel of Death
- Passover Ritual
- Passing the Reed Sea
Yom Suf
Sea of Reeds
Passover feast was orginally the combining of three major festivals:
1) Ancient Passover Festival: Shepherd Festival
2) Feast of Unleavened Bread
3) Feast of 1st Fruits / Feast of Weeks
The Shepherds Festival was celebrated when
Spring
Shepherds festival sacrifice was ______, why?
newborn lamb, secure fertility for the flocks
Feast of Unleavened bread celebrated when?
beginning of Barley Harvest
Feast of 1st Fruits takes place
the end of teh harvest season
Feast of 1st fruits sacrifice?
Ceremonially offering the 1st born, a consecration
Passover is about _____ (memory)
anamnesis
Throughout the whole story who is acting?
God
How are you supposed to eat the passover meal?
loins girded, sandals on, staff in hand, eat in an hurry
What is sometimes called the 11th plague
crossing of the Reed Sea
What brought on the the flight?
Pharaoh’s fist born son is killed
How does God help the Israelites?
He turns the hearts of the Egyptians in favor of the Israelites
Once at the Reed Sea what moves between Moses and Israelites?
Clod of the Lord
What does this affirm for Israel?
that God was with them, guiding, leading them
‘Herem
Arabic for Jihad / HOLY WAR
‘Herem requires 3 specific things
- Only God can call holy war
- God sets its start and end
- Wars are fought to gain property or territory
All that is won is war is ____
dedicated to God
Sacrificial ban
everything won during the war is dedicated to God
War has a ______ overtone
ritual
5 points of the 1st formation period
1. Arrive, encamp 2, Israel complains 3. Moses intercedes with God 4. God supplies 5. Camp moves
The 12 stations represent that Israel’s murmuring is a _______
rebellion against God and Moses
The Parting of the Reed Sea allowed the Israelites to have ______
faith