Who Wrote The Bible Ii

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What are the similarities between E & D?

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1. They both refer to the mountain where Moses and the people go in the wilderness as Horeb (as opposed to J and P which call it Sinai) 2. They both use crucial expression (place where Yahweh sets his name) 3. They both regard Moses as good, more than good

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What are the similarities between E & D? II

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4. They both place great emphasis on the role of prophets 5. They both favor and support the Levites 6. They both refer to Aarron as bad, referring to his role in the golden calf episode

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What did the way King Josiah handles the texts demonstrate?

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the impact of the events of the ancient world on the way the bible was written, he took texts that told the story of his people's arrival in the land. The stories of Joshua, Jericho and his conquest and he added a few lines at the beginning and end to set in certain light, became book of Joshua

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What are the insertions in the book of Joshua?

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God's first words to Joshua when he replaces Moses, in a passage concerning a national covenant ceremony that Joshua leads at Mt. Ebal and in the speeches that Joshua makes before he dies

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What do the insertions in the book of Joshua warn?

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that the people's destiny in the land depends on how carefully they observe it

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What does the insertion of the Boof of Judges say?

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people often failed to follow Yahweh, that they would turn to other Gods, that Yahweh would then allow other peoples to overpower them, that they would be sorry for their infidelity and that Yahweh would forgive them and provide a Judge to save them

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Deuteronomistic history made it clear that?

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1. God had given people instruction 2. that they had been warned that their fate depended on their infidelity to this instruction 3. their subsequent history was the record of how well they fared when they heeded or failed to heed this warning

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Was the covenant between David unconditional or conditional?

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Both. The throne of Judah in Jerusalem was unconditional. It was to belong to the decedents of David forever. Both Israel only if they were worthy/ The conditional passages spoke of the King's holding the throne and Israel. The unconditional passages spoke of the kings' holding the throne.

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What themes did the Deuteronomistic historian make?

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1. fidelity to Yahweh 2. Davidic covenant 3. the centralization of religion at the Temple in Jerusalem 4. the torah

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Why did the kingdom split?

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Because Soloman had forsaken Yahweh and his torah

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Why did the Northern kingdoms of Israel fall?

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Because the people and their kings did not follow the torah

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What did the fate of the Nation ultimately depend on
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the people of the nation

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What was the identity of the Deutermomist?

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the prophet Jeremiah

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What is the proof of the identity of the Deutermomist?

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1. He was a priest of the Shiloh-Anthoth 2. he was in Jerusalem during the reign of Joshia, where Dt2 was produced 3. He was in Egypt after the destruction and exile 4. His book is filled with the language of Deuteromistic history

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Where are the ancient Jewish traditions concerning who wrote the Bible?

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Tahmuh

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Author of book of Kings?

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Jeremiah

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Hypothesis for who wrote the Book of Jeremiah?

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Baruch

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Who was Ezra?

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1. lawgiver 2. priest and a scribe 3, Aarnoid Priest 4. brought from Babylon to Judah was the full Torah, the Five books of Moses 5. reformer 6. called a public assembly at the water gate of Jerusalem

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What was achieved in the second Temple's period?

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centralization

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Why does the period of redistribution appear from biblical and postbiblical sources to have been a dedication as never before?

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because political authority was now in the hands of the priests who had more of an interest in it than the Kings

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When was J (Jahweh) and E?

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early period

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When was D?

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middle period

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What does P include?

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1. creation story 2. cosmic version of the food story 3. stories of Abraham/Jacob/exodus, body of law covering about the 30 chapters of exodus and numebers

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What are the mistakes that the Five Books of Moses begin with?

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1. The law was later than the prophets

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How could this writer compose a story in which God gives Moses laws about a temple with no Temple was actually build until two hundred years after Moses was dead

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In order to make anyone believe that the Priestly laws came from Moses' quill, the second Temple writer had to invent some devices that would connect the era of the Temples. The Tabernacle was that device

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Evidence to support the Tabernacle was fiction

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1. too big for the Israelites to have carried it through the desert 2. size of the tabernacle; dimensions that they used are not the dimensions of the Tabernacle, The dimensions they used were not the dimensions of the second temple, the Tabernacle dimensions that were used were not the dimensions of the tabernacle

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Why in J and E there was no idea of centralization?

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Because they were written in the early days of Israel, when anyone could sacrifice anywhere

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Why was centralization strictly demanded?

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Because it was from the time of King Josiah, a time when centralization was first introduced and needed firm insistence

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What did P say about centralization?

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It was assumed that there was one place that you would sacrifice (Myth) P constantly commands that sacrifices and other religious ceremonies take place at the Tabernacle, only be at one approved religious center

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What does P say happens if you don't come to the central place for centralization?

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you will be cut off, as if you committed murder

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What is said about the Tabernacle?

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1. There are commandments about sacrifices performed there 2. After Mt. Sinai, it is the place where God communicates with Moses 4., Sacred shrine that houses the ark 5. constructed of precious wood, gold, brass, wool and linen woven with gold, scarlet and purple

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What does the Tabernacle have to do with when P was written?

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P had to be written before the First Temple was destroyed because laws all through P say that sacrifices and ceremonies must take place at the entrance to the tabernacle and nowhere else, how could they write it after the tabernacle was destroyed

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What do we know about the person who wrote P?

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1. The person was an Aarnoid priest 2. Male 3. From Judah, certainly Jerusalem 4. Someone with quite familiarity with the Jerusalem priestly practices 5. It was someone who was alive and writing before the fall of Jerusalem 6. Someone who knew the JE text

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What is not in P?

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1. No angels 2. No talking animals 3, Word prophet only occurs once 4. no blatant anthropomorphisms 5. D depicts God as more personal, less cosmic

JE's stories start with the heavens, P starts with the earth , don't burn incense

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What point does P try to make over and over?

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That the Aarnoid Priest at the sacrificial altar is the people's proper channel to the deity, so single reference to God as merciful, forgiveness cannot be had just because one is sorry

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What can be said of the work of P by the writer?

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His work was literary but his motivation was not only artistic but also theological, political and economic

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What did the writer of P have to deal with?

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challenges from other priests and other religious centers and he had to defend his group's legitimacy and to protect authority. he also had to fight the insult to his ancestor Aaron

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Who did the writer of P challenge? Who challenged him?

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They challenged his ancestor Aarron. he challenged their ancestor Moses

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Why didn't the author of P go after Moses in his writing?

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He had to be concerned with successful promulgation that is with his audience's willingness to accept this work as a believable account of their past, he respected the place of Moses in tradition

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What was Moses' worst offense?

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hitting the rock, he is not to live to bring people into the land

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What happens to Aaaron?

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He suffers the same penalty, both die before people into the promise land

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What is different about P's story than JE about the revelation at Mt. Sinai?

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When people see Moses after coming down the mountain. they are afraid to come near him, Moses therefore wears a veil when he speaks to the people

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What stories did the writer of P not include?

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1. Most of Joseph's story 2. story of Adam & Eve 3. story of angels who visit the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah before God destroys them 4. Jacob's wrestling with God at penuei 5. did not have God standing on the rock that Moses strikes at Meribah 6. No stories of sacrifices before the consecration of Adam 7. famous story of Abraham's sacrifice to his son Issac

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What does the writer of P not show any interest in?

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lesser characters of Genesis or in the literary constructions based on clever puns and intricately designed ironies

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What does the writer of P place an enormous emphasis on?

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law

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What is a story P added?

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lengthy description about the negotiations between Abraham and Hittie over a piece of land, story establishes a legal claim to the territory in Hebron