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68 Cards in this Set
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brother of Moses |
AARON
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hebrew: "I am/Existing one" |
YAHWEH
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Son of Abraham and Sarah |
ISAAC
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Hebrew: "mountain god" |
EL SHADDAI
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king famous for wisdom/wealth |
SOLOMON
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hebrew word for the pentateuch |
TORAH
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means "five scrolls" in Greek |
PENTATEUCH
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built first temple |
SOLOMON
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anointed saul and david |
SAMUEL
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the worship of a single God with a belief in other gods existing |
HENOTHEISM
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afraid of pharaoh he claimed his wife was his "sister" |
ABRAHAM
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A covenant with what king promised that his dynasty would last forever |
DAVID
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hebrew word for the loyalty or love between principals in a covenant |
HESED
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the act if changing one's religious beliefs, turning to other gods |
APOSTASY
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two of the three "laws of the desert" |
HOSPITALITY, REVENGE
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the territory between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, cradle of civilization |
MESOPOTAMIA
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name of the southern king after the schism |
JUDAH
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story about the household of the gods who represent natural or psychological forces |
MYTH
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what type of covenant did God make with Abraham and David |
SUZERAINTY
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material passed from one generation to the next before finding written form |
ORAL TRADITION
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term for any person who is inspired by the spirit of Yahweh |
CHARISMATIC
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israel's last judge and first prophet |
SAMUEL
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name of the biblical books from Joshua to 2 kings edited by the so-called deuteronomist historians |
FORMER PROPHETS
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a scholarly theory which argues that pentateuch is work of many writers revisers and redactors |
DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS
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term: a state/society thought to be ruled by God through intermediary of priest divinely appointed kings... etc. |
THEOCRACY
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who renewed the covenant between Yahweh and the people of shechem after entering Cannan |
JOSHUA
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term for a formal system of religious veneration and ritual involving a sacred object or holy place |
CULT
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jebusite city which david captured and made the capital of his United Monarchy |
JERUSALEM
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theme that god cannot be approached seen or his name pronounced without extreme caution |
HOLINESS MOTIF
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supreme example of obedience to Yahweh; his call in Mesopotamia started "salvation history" |
ABRAHAM
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which biblical tradition taught that those faithful to Yahweh prosper those unfaithful suffer? |
DEUTERONOMIST
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ancient near eastern term meaning persons or clans or nomads outside urban social structure |
'APIRU/HABIRU
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what book portrays the entrance of Hebrews into Canaan as a divinely supported blitzkrieg? |
JOSHUA
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concept containing the "sacred ban" by which enemies are massacred as an offering to Yahweh |
HOLY WAR
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first person anointed as king, failed because he couldn't reconcile sacred and secular in his monarchy |
SAUL
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documentary source which was vividly concrete and presented God in anthropomorphic |
YAHWIST
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documentary source which was more abstract, less picturesque, showed god as less anthromorphic |
ELOHIST
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documentary source which edited the post-excilic edition of the pentateuch as we have it |
PRIESTLY
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term for charismatic military leader who drove off local tribes who raided Israel's territory |
JUDGE
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event which marks the end of the monarchy and the destruction of the temple |
EXILE
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what word means attributing human characteristics to a deity (hand of God) |
ANTHROPOMORPHISM
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narrative genre which explains the origin or meaning of a people, custom, law, name... |
ETIOLOGY
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what type of covenant, did god make with moses |
PARITY
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word meaning the male head of an ancient family line a venerable tribal founder |
PATRIARCH
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technical term given to appearance of God amid natural convulsions (fire wind) |
THEOPHANY
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literary genre of long, prose traditional narrative episodic in structure |
SAGA
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biblical event which was later considered the honeymoon of God and Israel |
EXODUS
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the term for the image of God as personal involved in the creation maternal and present in everyday life |
IMMANENT
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what was the name of the kingdom in which Assyria defeated in the eighth century |
ISRAEL
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term meaning "anointed one" associated with David and his dynasty anointed in God's covenant |
MESSIAH
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term for YHWH |
TETRAGRAMMATION
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hebrew word which pious jews pronounce when reading the word Yahweh because its too holy |
ADONAI
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presented as second moses |
JOSHUA
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king who found the book of law in the temple, initiated reform |
JOSIAH
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names give by j and e sources for the holy mountain of god where moses found commandments |
SINAI AND HOREB
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what city did the deutronimists say was the only legitimate place for cultic sacrifice |
JERUSALEM
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doctrine: what is affirmed in the bible is infallibly true if truly interpreted |
INERRENCY |
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which covenant type-- asks only for covenant loyalty from one party |
SUZERAINTY
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great Hebrew lawgiver religious reformer founder of the israelite nation |
MOSES
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"loved many women" overextended United Kingdom, brought on later schism into two kingdoms |
SOLOMON |
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an agreement or compact between individuals or between Yahweh and a chosen group such as Israel |
COVENANT |
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what physical sign of the mosaic covenant corresponds to the rainbow of the covenant with Noah? |
CIRCUMCISION |
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what is the term for the image of God as distant, all-knowing, unapproachable, all-holy? |
TRANSCENDENT |
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term for God's communication with people |
REVELATION |
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term for God's communication with an individual or group of individuals |
INSPIRATION |
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enemy of Israelites who helped bring on the monarchy by destroying Shiloh and stealing the Ark? |
PHILISTINES |
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General semitic term for God; in the Canaanite pantheon he was the "father-god" |
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Yearly jewish holiday which commemorates the exodus event |
PASSOVER |