Unit 1 Test

Question 1

the brother of Moses; Israel’s first high priest

Answer 1

Aaron

Question 2

king of Gerar; deceived by Abraham and Isaac about their respective wives, Sarai and Rebekah

Answer 2

Abimelech

Question 3

the second son of Adam and Eve; he was murdered by his brother Cain

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Abel

Question 4

the first father (patriarch) of Israel; first called Abram, God made a covenant with him in which God promised to make him a great nation; Isaac was his son by Sarah, and Ishmael was his son by Hagar

Answer 4

Abraham

Question 5

the first male who God created; he and his mate, Eve, disobeyed God and were expelled from the garden of Eden; he was created out of the ground (adamah in Hebrew)

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Adam

Question 6

Rachel’s maid; she bore Jacob two sons: Dan and Naphtali

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Bilhah

Question 7

the twelfth son of Jacob; the younger brother of Joseph; Rachel was his mother; he was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin

Answer 7

Benjamin

Question 8

the first son of Adam and Eve; he murdered his brother Abel

Answer 8

Cain

Question 9

one of Joseph’s two sons; he became the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel; the name was often used as a designation of the ten northern tribes after the division of the kingdoms

Answer 9

Ephraim

Question 10

the first son of Isaac and Rebekah; the twin of Jacob; he was the ancestor of the Edomites; he sold his birthright to his brother for lentil stew

Answer 10

Esau

Question 11

the first female who God created; mated to Adam, her name means “life”

Answer 11

Eve

Question 12

the servant of Sarah and one of Abraham’s wives; the mother of Ishmael, who was driven away from the family by Sarah

Answer 12

Hagar

Question 13

derived from Egyptian for “rulers of foreign countries,” these Semitic rulers of Egypt from 1750-1550 BCE were probably the people in control of Egypt during the sojourn of Joseph and Jacob’s descendants

Answer 13

Hyksos

Question 14

the son of Abraham and Sarah who inherited the ancestral promises; he married Rebekah and was the father of Esau and Jacob

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Isaac

Question 15

the son of Abraham and Hagar; he was not the son of the promise; he and his mother were expelled by Sarah and Abraham

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Ishmael

Question 16

the second son of Isaac and Rebekah; he was the twin brother of Esau; his name was changed to Israel after he wrestled with God at the Jabbok River; he became the recipient of the ancestral promises and his twelve sons became the ancestors of the tribes of Israel

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Jacob

Question 17

father of Zippporah and father-in-law of Moses; also called Reuel

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Jethro

Question 18

son of Jacob by Rachel; brother of Benjamin; he was sold into slavery by his brothers and became a high official within the Egyptian government; his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, became tribes within Israel

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Joseph

Question 19

Moses’s aide during the wilderness sojourn; after the death of Moses, he led the Hebrews into the Promised Land

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Joshua

Question 20

(640-609) King of Judah who reformed Judean religion and died in battle at Megiddo

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Josiah

Question 21

Jacob’s fourth son, he was the ancestor of the tribe of Judah; became the name of the southern kingdom after the northern ten tribes separated from Judah and Benjamin; seduced by his daughter-in-law Tamar

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Judah

Question 22

Rebekah’s brother and Jacob’s uncle who lived in Aram; Jacob became wealthy there and married his daughters, Rachel and Leah

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Laban

Question 23

the nephew of Abraham who accompanied him to Canaan; settled in Sodom and Gomorrah

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Lot

Question 24

Joseph’s firstborn son; Jacob chooses to bless his brother Ephraim instead of him

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Manasseh

Question 25

king of Salem; blessed Abraham in the name of "El Elyon, Creator of heaven and earth" after he defeated the enemies of Sodom and Gomorrah and rescued Lot

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Melchizedek

Question 26

the sister of Moses and Aaron; she led the Israelites in worship after the crossing of the Reed Sea

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Miriam

Question 27

the leader of the Hebrews at the time of the Exodus from Egypt (thirteenth century BCE); he led the people of Israel out of Egyptian bondage, God revealed to Torah to him on Mount Sinai; described as the first Hebrew prophet

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Moses

Question 28

built a boat and survived the Flood with his family and representatives of the animal world; God made a covenant with him, promising never again to destroy the world with a flood

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Noah

Question 29

Egyptian term for "great house" that became the title for a king of Egypt; it is not a king's name

Answer 29

Pharaoh

Question 30

the Egyptian administrator in Genesis who purchased Joseph to be his slave

Answer 30

Potiphar

Question 31

the daughter of Laban, most loved wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

Answer 31

Rachel

Question 32

king of Egypt at the time of the Hebrews' Exodus (thirteenth century BCE)

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Ramses II

Question 33

the sister of Laban, Isaac's wife, mother of Esau and Jacob

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Rebekah

Question 34

the wife of Abraham; called Sarai before Genesis 17; she was barren until God enabled conception, and Isaac was born in her old age

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Sarah

Question 35

the daughter-in-law of Judah; the daughter of David

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Tamar

Question 36

Leah's maid who bore Jacob two sons: Gad and Asher

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Zilpah

Question 37

"binding of Isaac;" the Pentateuchal narrative describing God's command to Abraham to offer Isaac, the son of his old age, as a sacrifice

Answer 37

Akedah

Question 38

a term for the attribution of human behavior or characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, natural phenomena, or deity

Answer 38

anthropomorphism

Question 39

it is law stated in an unconditional manner without qualifying clauses

Answer 39

apodictic law

Question 40

the territory north and east of Palestine where Abraham's ancestors had settled and from where the wives of Isaac and Jacob came; roughly the region of modern northern Syria and northwestern Iraq

Answer 40

Aram

Question 41

an evil spirit of the wilderness to which a scapegoat was sent by the ancient Hebrews in a ritual of atonement

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Azazel

Question 42

the name of a Mesopotamian city with a tower as told in Genesis 11; the name means "gate of God"

Answer 42

Babel

Question 43

a city that became a center of Israelite worship; literally means "house of El"

Answer 43

Bethel

Question 44

the special inheritance rights of the firstborn son that gave him claim to the bulk of the ancestral property

Answer 44

birthright

Question 45

legal sayings with modifying clauses often in the "if...then" form: "if this is the situation, ...then this is the penalty"

Answer 45

casuistic law

Question 46

the cave which Abraham bought, together with the field in which it stood, from Ephron the Hittite, for a family burying-place; here were laid the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah

Answer 46

cave of Machpelah

Question 47

a fissure/opening in the rock where God reveals His glory to Moses, but Moses doesn't see God's face

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cleft of the rock

Question 48

Exodus 20:22-23:33; a collection of Israelite laws

Answer 48

covenant

Question 49

Greek for "ten words;" refers to laws collected into a group of ten; the Ten Commandments received by Moses on Mount Sinai

Answer 49

Decalogue

Question 50

the body of material that consists of the introduction to Deuteronomy and Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings; an extended review of Israel's history from the conquest under Joshua through the destruction of 587 BCE written from the perspective of principles found in the book of Deuteronomy

Answer 50

Deuteronomic history

Question 51

a Babylonian epic centering on Gilgamesh, an ancient king of Uruk; the eleventh tablet of this epic contains a story of a flood that has parallels to the biblical story of Noah and the ark

Answer 51

Gilgamesh Epic

Question 52

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength"

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the Great Commandment

Question 53

a statue constructed by Aaron at Mount Sinai that the Israelites worshipped

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golden calf

Question 54

the territory in the eastern Nile delta of Egypt where Joseph settled the family of Jacob

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Goshen

Question 55

the term used in the Elohist and Deuteronomist sources to designate the location where God delivered the commandments and covenant to the Israelites through Moses; apparently the equivalent of Mount Sinai

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Horeb

Question 56

site where Jacob wrestled with God before being reunited with Esau; place where his name is changed to Israel

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Jabbok

Question 57

(Hebrew=kashrut) refers to ritually correct Jewish dietary practices; traditional Jewish dietary laws are based on biblical legislation; only land animals that chew the cud and have split hooves are permitted and must be slaughtered in a special way; further, meat products may not be eaten with milk products or immediately thereafter; of sea creatures, only those having fins and scaled are permitted; fowl is considered a meat food and also has to be slaughtered in a special manner

Answer 57

Kosher

Question 58

a biblical system of marriage in which the levir marries his brother's widow

Answer 58

levirate law

Question 59

Hebrew for "what is it?"; the food that God provided to the Hebrews while they sojourned in the wilderness for forty years

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Manna

Question 60

Greek for "between the rivers"; the land defined by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, this is the location of the birth of civilization and the origin of the Israelites

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Mesopotamia

Question 61

territory south of Canaan, of uncertain exact location; perhaps in the Sinai Peninsula or western Arabia; Moses's father-in-law, Jethro, was a priest of this place

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Midian

Question 62

the desert region south of Canaan and east of Egypt

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Sinai

Question 63

the festival recalling the escape from Egypt in the Exodus

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Passover (Pesach)

Question 64

the father and ruler of a family; the head of a tribe

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patriarch

Question 65

aka a sojourner, a person who lives in a country but does not hold citizenship; the Old Testament specifies certain rights for resident aliens

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resident alien

Question 66

the seventh day of the week, a day of rest and worship; it extends from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; the sign of the Mosaic covenant and became especially important as an identifier of Jewishness beginning in the Babylonian exile

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Sabbath

Question 67

title of the Great Commandment, the fundamental, monotheistic statement of Judaism, found in Deuteronomy 6:4 ("Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One"); affirms the unity of God and is recited daily in the liturgy and customarily before sleep at night

Answer 67

Shema

Question 68

the portable tent shrine constructed at Mount Sinai that served as the residence of YHWH in the wilderness and until the time of Solomon

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tabernacle

Question 69

Greek for "appearance of God"; a manifestation or appearance of the divine--for example, when God appears to Moses in a burning bush

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theophany

Question 70

an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian city on the Euphrates River in southern Mesopotamia; the home of Abraham before he left for Canaan

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Ur

Question 71

Hebrew for "Day of Atonement"; annual day of fasting, penitence, and atonement, occurring in the fall on the tenth day of the month Tishri; the most solemn and important occasion of the Jewish religious year

Answer 71

Yom Kippur

Question 72

divination dice that allowed the high priest to consult with God directly

Answer 72

Urim and Thummin