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60 Cards in this Set
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Characteristics of the prehistoric period
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Advanced culture in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
-elaborate irrigation -organized cities -writing developed |
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Who were the creators of Mesopotamia?
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The Summarians
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Who were the Akkadians
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Semites that inhabited lower Mesopotamia (seized power and created a 180 year dynasty)
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Who knocked the Akkadians out of power?
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The Guti, which were later overthrown by Ur
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Place/setting of the Patriarchal narratives
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Palestine
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What time period can the patriarchal narratives be set in?
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Middle Bronze I period
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Abraham's journey is associated with what time period?
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Middle Bronze II period
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What kind of lifestyle did the patriarchs lead?
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nomadic
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Who did Abraham originally worship?
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Many gods
He was a polytheist |
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What is the tripartite canon?
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The old testament divided into three sections
the Law the Prophets the Writings |
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What is the varying number in books in the Jewish canon of the OT?
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24 or 22
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What is the probable cause of the jewish canon having 22 books?
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To parallel the amount of letters in the hebrew alphabet
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To what time period has the evidence for 24 books date back to ?
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100 A.D.
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What did the Christian Church change in the order of the OT books?
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Put the books of the prophetic oracles, Isaiah onwards, at the end of teh old testament
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What sections are the Hebrew Bible broken up in?
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Torah
Prophets Writings (categories for organizing the books of the bible) |
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What sections are the Protestant Bible broken up in?
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The Law
The History Poetry Major Prophets Minor Prophets |
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What sections are the Catholic Bible broken up in?
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Law
History Poetical and Wisdom Prophetical Literature |
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What is similar between the Hebrew, Protestant, and Catholic Bible?
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They all begin with this order
Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy |
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How do the arrangement of 1&2 Samuel and 1&2 Kings differ between the different bible versions?
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Hebrew:
1-2 Samuel 1-2 Kings Protestant: (breaks them up) 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings Catholic: (calls all kings) 1 Kings (1 Samuel), 2 Kings (2 Samuel), 3 Kings (1 Kings), 4 Kings (2 Kings) |
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What does Paralipomenon stand for?
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Chronicles in the Catholic Bible
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What are Books of the Bible that exist in the Catholic Bible, but not in the Hebrew and Protestant Bibles?
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Tobias
Canticle of Canticles Ecclesiasticus Baruch 1 and 2 Maccabees |
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What does Abdias stand for?
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Obadiah in the Catholic Bible
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Wath does Sophonias mean?
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Zephaniah in the Catholic Bible
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What does Aggeus mean?
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Haggai in the Catholic Bible
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How many books does the Hebrew Bible have?
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24
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How many books does the Protestant Bible have?
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39
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How many books does the Catholic Bible have?
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46
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How is Ester and Nehemiah categorized in each style of Bible?
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Catholic and Hebrew
Ezra and Nehemiah are one book; however, in different placements within the bible Protestant Ezra and Nehemiah stand as separate books |
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What are the two languages of the Old Testament?
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Hebrew and Aramaic
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What tribes/ethnic groups lived in Northeast Semitic
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Babylonian
Assyrian Eblaite |
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What tribes/ethnic groups lived in Northwest Semitic
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Aramaic
Amorite Moabite Phoenician Ugaritic Hebrew |
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What tribes/ethnic groups lived in Southeast Semitic
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Old South Arabic
Ehiopic |
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What tribes/ethnic groups lived in Southwest Semitic
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Arabic
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What were the earliest Hebrew texts (that have been found) written in?
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Paleo-Hebrew script which was borrowed and adapted from the Phoencians
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What were the methods of writing that were used to write the Old Testament?
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scroll or roll of leather (parchment)
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What were the earliest documents of the Old Testament probably written on?
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Papyrus
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What were other things people wrote on?
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tablets of wood, wax, or clay and fragments of broken pottery
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What is cuneiform?
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a form of writing where words would be inscribed with a chisel into stone
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What were other tools that authors used to write with?
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reed pen
iron pen |
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What caused discrepancies or errors in copying the Old Testament?
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alphabet letters of the Paleo-Hebrew script could easily be confused because they looked alike
-early manuscripts also lacked vowels and pronunciation -copyists would substitute more commons words for more obscure words |
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What is dittography
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when someone accidentally repeats a letter, word or phrase.
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what is haplography
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failing to repeat something in the copy which is found twice in the source manuscript
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what is momoioteluton
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a scribe's eye skippedfrom one phrase to another with a similar ending, omitting the intervening material
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what is homioarchton
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when something is left out because of a similar beginning
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What is LXX
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the Septuagint or Greek Old Testament
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When did Christians begin to use the LXX?
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After the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD
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What is MT
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Masoretic Text
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What are the Aramaic Targums?
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Aramaic hostile encroachments upon the Hebrew language that were used in synagogue readings
Aramaic version of the OT? |
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What is the Vulgate
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Syriac translated version of the old testament
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What are the two distinct sections in Genesis?
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Primeval history
Patriarchal history |
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What are four major theological themes that are present in Genesis?
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1. God is Creator
2. the entrance of sin into the created order radically alters the original creation 3. God's judgment meets human sin at each point 4. God sustains both the creation and humans by his preserving grace |
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Liberal view of divine/human inspiration
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View bible as a book that is only filled with peoples ideas of God and does not believe that inspiration comes from God nly human thought
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Fundamentalist view of divine/human inspiriation
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They believe that human inspiration is just the literal transcriptions of what God is telling them to say
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What is Plenary?
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The view that all scripture is inspired
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What is Verbal view of inspiration?
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The view that the words of the Bible are inspired by God, not just the ideas
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When did the Egyptian Empire come to an end?
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Under the seccessors of Ramseses III
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Where is the first extrabiblical mentioning of Isreal?
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In Merheptari's Hymn of Victory inscribed on stele
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Whats the supossed date for the Exodus?
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1300-1250
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Under which pharo is the exodus believed to have taken place?
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Rameses II
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What does "Exodus" mean?
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Depature
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