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25 Cards in this Set
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Covenant
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A formal agreement between two or more parties. A covenant often included specific responsibilities for each participant and was often considered legally binding
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Election
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God’s choice of Abraham and his descendants, Israel, as the means of his revelation of himself to the world
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Firstborn
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The first offspring of animals or humans. God claimed firstborn males. They were either to be sacrificed or redeemed. The firstborn represented the future of the parents since children assured the perpetuation of the family name
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Habiru
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Displaced immigrants viewed as an inferior social class. The Habiru could be found throughout the Ancient Near East and were made up of many ethnic groups, including several Semitic Peoples
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Hospitality
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Life is hard on the edge of the desert. In such condition, generosity and hospitality become moral values. Examples, Abraham eager reception of three strangers, Lots feeble
attempts to shelter his guests are mirrored in the Gibeah Tragedy |
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Hyksos
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A mixed group of Asian invaders who dominated Egypt from about 1786 to 1567 B.C. during the Fifteenth through the Seventeenth Dynasties.
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Pharaoh
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A title use in the OT for the reigning kings of Egypt
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Passover
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An annual Jewish feast in which the participants reenact the events of the Israelites’ last night in Egypt. It is so named because the Lord “passed over” the houses marked by blood
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Tetragrammaton
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The four-letter rendering of the divine name revealed to Moses (YHWH). It is related to the verb “to be” and probably means “he is.”
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Yahweh
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The personal name by which God revealed himself to the Israelites, initially though Moses. The name probably means “He is”. The name suggest God’s infinite existence and self-determining nature.
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Atonement
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the restoration of a relationship through an act of substitution
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Case Law
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a legal interpretation of a law, normally by a court hearing, that furnishes a precedent for such cases in the feture. The Hebrew term for case laws is mishpatim
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Clean and unclean
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Qualification for or disqualification from the worship and presence of God. It refers to spiritual purity versus contamination. Unclean things were not allowed to come before the Lord
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Code of Hammurabi
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A collection of laws compiled shortly before 1750 B.C. and inscribe on an eight foot pillar of black diorite. Longest and best Mesopotamian law collection or codes
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Command, Commandment
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commands are not law, although laws may be compiled to enforce them. EX a traffics sign. The actual law, describing the penalty, would not be written on the sign.
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Holiness
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The only appropriate term for describing the person and nature of God, distinguishing him in his transcendence from the human realm of time and space. People and things become holy only when they are set apart for God’s purposes.
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Law
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Coercive force applied on a community but a governing person or body to ensure conformity to a norm. The force may be applied through political or religious bodies
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Lex talionis (Talion)
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the law commonly known as ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’, requiring that the punishment fit the crime. Repeated in each of the three Old Testament law collections and throughout the ANE. It was intended to curb abuses from favoritism or vengeance.
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Statute and Statutory Law
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a statue is a law coming directly from a lawgiver or lawgiving body, as contrasted with case law. The Hebrew word for “statute is choq, chuqquim
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Tithe
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literally, a tenth part of something. In the Old Testament, it was to be paid on everything one owned. The recipients were the Levites, who were, in turn, expected to tithe to the priests
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Torah
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A Hebrew word meaning “a teaching,” it denotes the revelation of God, especially that given through Moses, to Israel in the Bible. In Hosea, it is used to denote “Scripture”. Another title for the Pentetauch
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Typology
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Interpretive approach to Scripture that recognizes that persons, events, and institutions in the Old Testament often find their counterparts in the New. This they assume a wider spiritual significance with a climatic fulfillment in the New Testament work of Jesus Christ.
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Urim & Thummim
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Two lots, probably stones, carried in the breastplate of the high priest’s uniform, used for determining the will of God in the absence of direct revelation
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First 5 Commandments
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1. No other gods
2. No Idols 3. Do not use God’s name falsely 4. Sabbath 5. Honor one’s parents |
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Last 5 Commandments
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6. Do not murder
7. Do not commit adultery 8. Do not steal 9. Do not wrongly acuse one’s neighbor 10. Do not covet your neighbor’s wife |
