UCBF 7a Flashcards
Sinai
The name of a peninsula bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by the Gulf of Aqaba, and on the west by the Gulf of Suez. Traditionally the mountain of Sinai, purportedly the location where Moses received the Decalogue, is on this peninsula, but no mountain has been definitively identified as the biblical Sinai.
Berit
A term that may be used of a legal agreement between two individuals, groups, or nations, or between God and Israel.
Book of the covenant
The texts of the covenant collection.
Covenant
A contract or treaty. Some covenants have specific conditions or treaty stipulations, while others are covenants of grant; often used of the relationship between God and Israel.
Covenant code
Another term for Covenant Collection
Covenant collection
An ancient set of laws, which details the terms of the covenant between God and Israel.
Decalogue
A traditional name for the list of ten commandments in Ex. and Deut.
Treaty
A covenant with others.
Ark of the covenant
The chest in the tabernacle or Temple that contained the text or tablets of the covenant, and that served as part of the throne of the Lord.
Suzerain
The lord or ruler to whom loyalty is due in a covenant relationship.
Vassal
The underlord in a covenant relationship, who is granted power and control over people in a particular area in return for loyalty to the suzerain.
Apodictic law
Law stated absolutely, as in the Decalogue’s “you shall not,” rather than casuistically, “if a person . . . .”
Casuistic law
The form of law dealing with the treatment of specific cases. It is frequently in the form of “if/when . . . then” formulae. Most ancient Near Eastern law collections are formulated this way.
Hammurabi
King of Babylon in the eighteenth century BCe, responsible for the formulation of a legal collection (the Code [or Laws] of Hammurabi) that is one of the earliest collections of case law.
Lex talionis
Punishment fitting the crime.
