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37 Cards in this Set
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Strangeness of Biblical test
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cultural: language, gender patterns, politics, law, geographical
evidence is limited |
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Ways in which we familiarize Biblical tet
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archaeology
philology history anthropology literary religion/theology/ethics feminism |
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3 dimensions of the Bible
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text-literary
reader-moral,theological world-impact,history |
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hermeneutics
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process of interpreting text
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hermeneutic spiral
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reading text with affect from outside influence
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Lymn White
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1967-argued that primary cause for modern environmentalism was way people read Genesis 1:28
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anthromorphic
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in the shape of human beings
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ethiology
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legend/story that explains origin of some feature
-God removes legs from serpent |
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Vulgate
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1515 Erasmus prints 1st book form of Greek New Testament
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source theory
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Bible is mad eup of different sources
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pentateuch
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"five scrolls" 1st 5 books in hebrew bible
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy |
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4 types of test
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J= Yahwist
E= Elohist P= Priestly D= Deuteronomist |
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canonical
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community selects particularly important documents
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apocrypha
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excleuded by Jews of basis of language
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Pseudepigrahpa
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Time of old testement "false writings" not considered part of text
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Dead Sea Scrolls
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1940s Bedouin Shepherds near Palestine found remains of ancient documents
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Gnosticism
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"knowledge"
-widespread movement that argued that Jesus left oral teach to select apostles -believed that the spiritual was good and physical was evil -believed in Jesus as a spirit rather than flesh |
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Nag Hammadi
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Gnostic text
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Napishtun
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Hero of Gilgamesh--Noah
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"chronoligical snobbery"
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C.S. Lewis
Term indicating that modern scientific knowledge does not give basis for dissproving biblical text |
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cuneiform
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wedge-shaped writing
-Mesopotamia |
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hieroglyphics
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Pictuer writing
-Egypt |
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Ostraca
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pieces of pottery on which something has been written
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papyrus
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early form of paper made from reed in swamps in ancient near east
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scrolls
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leather
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codex, codices
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papyrus stitched together-book form
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palimpest
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piece of leather that has been reused
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parchment
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leather, high quality, often skin of lambs
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vellum
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best quality (like parchment)
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miniscule
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Greek biblical manuscripts-small letters
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unical
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capital Greek letters
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homeoleletons
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the act of a scribe losing their space on text and thus eliminating phrases
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ditography
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writing the same word twice
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primeval
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1st
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ziggurat
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stepped pyramid
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Man
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ishshah
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Woman
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