Test One

Question 1

Primeval History

Answer 1

Creation (2 stories)
Atrahasis - babylonian story (creation and flood–human created with clay and blood of a god)
Enuma Elish – separatiom leads to order
Genesis 3 = serpent, punishment
Cain and Abel
Tower of Babel (origin of languages)

Question 2

Patriarchal History

Answer 2

Gunkel says Genesis is folklore not history
God promises Abraham lets of decedents

Question 3

Exodus

Answer 3

God talks to Moses – tells him to call him YHWH
Plagues
read sea– two account, 1-sea splits, 2-sea ebbs away
revelation at the mountain of Sinai
-most likey god, moses, pharroh

Question 4

Sinai Material

Answer 4

Revelation to Moses
Covenant – why should Israelites obey god, laws & stipulations
Decalogue (do not…/do…) & Covenant code (if…,then…)
-most likely god or moses

Question 5

Deuteronomy

Answer 5

second law
kind of repetitive
fifth book
last moses speech
2-way covenant relationship w god and israelites
stipulations for living in the holy land
- most likely moses

Question 6

Leviticus

Answer 6

• aaron and 2 sons are high priest
• god speaking to moses aboutthigs to tell israelites
• ritual, legal, and moral practices
  -most likely god or moses

Question 7

Genesis 1

Answer 7

God creates by speaking
Creation id orderly
Separation leads to order
Seven days – God rests on the 7th

Question 8

Genesis 2

Answer 8

God makes things out of the the dust of the earth
Creates woman out of rib of man

Question 9

Numbers

Answer 9

• after israelites have recieved laws from god
• now need to take ahold of the promised land
• some rebelion against moses
  complaining about the task at hand
• ends w new generation

Question 10

Etiology

Answer 10

story that explains the cause of something

Question 11

Mekilta de Rabbi Ishmael

Answer 11

• ## rules

Question 12

Wellhausen

Answer 12

• ## contributed to composition history of pentatuch

Question 13

W. M. L. de Wette

Answer 13

• assumes the pentatuch has mutliple authors (none of which were moses)
• ## deuteronomy still different author (even though moses first person)

Question 14

Gezer Calendar

Answer 14

• revolves around planting/harvesting
• 2 months for ingathering, 2 months for sowing, 2 months for planting, etc.

Question 15

Four Room House

Answer 15

• dedicated to agrarian needs
• sleeping upstairs
• downstairs : storage, animals, and then either food prep, metallurgy, textile production, etc.

Question 16

Stepstone Structure

Answer 16

• support for a citadel
• fortification
• water system

Question 17

Adam

Answer 17

• ## first human

Question 18

Atrahasis

Answer 18

• human formed from clay and flesh of a god (sim to gen 2)
• humanity too populous -> flood (sim to gen 6)
• population control - barness, child mortality, celibacy

Question 19

Gilgamesh

Answer 19

• what it means to be human
• reality of death
• futile ways to escape death

Question 20

Ut-napishtim

Answer 20

• survived arthrasis flood by building a boat

Question 21

Marduk

Answer 21

• slays tiamat to create the earth
• king of gods
• enuma elish

Question 22

Tiamat

Answer 22

• god whose body was used to create the world in enuma elish

Question 23

Etiology

Answer 23

• story that explains the cause of something
• gen 3 explains why childbirth is so painful and why there is a patriarchy

Question 24

Impurity

Question 25

Abraham + Sarah, Isaac + Rebecca, Jacob + Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah

Question 26

Joseph

Answer 26

- 12 sons

Question 27

J, E, P, and D

Question 28

Moses

Answer 28

- raised by egyptians - runs away after killing an eqyptian burning bush - god tells him to call him YHWH - leads the people our of israel - 10 commandments red sea

Question 29

Sinai/Horeb

Answer 29

- 10 commandements - there forever - they bulid golden calf - god gets angry

Question 30

10 Plagues (don’t list them, discuss what they are and their significance to the Hebrew Bible)

Answer 30

- helped the jewish people escape from Egypt -

Question 31

Casuistic/Apodictic Law

Answer 31

- if..., then... -

Question 32

Debt Slavery

Answer 32

- fellow hebrews - max 6 years - used to pay off debts

Question 33

Decalogue

Answer 33

- ten commandments - apioditic law (do not...) -

Question 34

Covenant Code

Answer 34

- ritual rules - god to moses at mt sinai - causitic covers more ground

Question 35

Covenant

Answer 35

- an agreement - many covenants between god and fore fathers - covenat between god and israelites - follow him

Question 36

Loyalty Oath

Answer 36

- sworn agreement to obey - writtn on clay tablets - swear to follow succesion rules

Question 37

Centralization of the Cult

Answer 37

- only sacrifice animals at the temple - if you sacrifice something not at the Temple, then not a sacrifice - passover festival becomes pilgramage to that site