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63 Cards in this Set
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What is the root of our word "bible"?
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From the greek word ta biblia meaning books.
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How do the protestant and roman catholic versions of the OT differ?
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Protestant-27 books
Roman Catholic-39 books |
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What is "TANAK"?
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hebrew/jewish term for the OT
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Define septuagint
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Greek translation of hebrew scriptures
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Define Canon
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a measuring stick
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Define apocrypha
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extra books in the OT, "hidden books"
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define deuterocanonical
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a second canon, bridge between end of OT and beginning of NT
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define pseudopigrapha
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false writings
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what are the 4 main geographical zones of palestine that run from north to south?
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Coastal plains, hill country, central mountains, jordan rift(valley)
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Name a significant invention of the sumerians
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invented language (cuneiform, pictographic)
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Who were the phillistines and what skill did they have that gave them an advantage over their neighbors?
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"the people of the sea", ironmaking
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Name the 3 small states across the Jordan river from palestine
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edom, moab, ammon
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define semitic
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largest ethnic group classified by language
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fertile crescent
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agricultural land from egypt to mesopotamia
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define gift of the nile
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egypt
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define satrapies
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LOOK UP
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In what archaeological ages do the OT occur
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late bronze age and iron age
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define archaeology
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studyof mterial things in mankind's past
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define cuneiform
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wedge shaped writing
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define heiroglyphics
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picture language from Egypt
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define tell
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mound made up of destroyed cities
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define sherds
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pottery fragments
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define ostraca
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broken pottery with writing on it
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what significant development was made by sir william flinders petrie
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pioneered pottery dating
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what is the Moabite stone and what is its significance
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reveals moabite writing and worship of its natural god and relation to isreal
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what is the Siloam inscription
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found in tunnel, tells story of two groups meeting in the middle
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What is the significance of qumran
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LOOK UP
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Define lower and higher criticism
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lower-trying to fix old manuscripts
higher-interpretation of corrected text |
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give some examples of how errors crept into biblical manuscripts
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ony consanents, handcopied with no proofreaders, oral copys, handwriting, words combined/split,intentional additions
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define exegesis and eisegesis
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ex-reading from the text
ei-reading into the text |
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define masoretic
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standard hebrew text
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define vulgate
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st jeromes careful latin translation
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define redaction
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positive role of editing
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who was jean austruc and what did he do
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he condluded that moses must have used two or more sources when composing the first 4 books of the bible. WHO?
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who was julius welhausen
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identified 4 clear written sources in the Pentateuch
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what are source criticism and form criticism
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source-written documents behind writings?
form-oral studies |
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explain jdpe
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four sources, yahwist,priestly,elohist,deuteronomist
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characteristics of J
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yahwist, god is yahweh, god walks and talks, stress on blessing, earthy speech about god, stresses the leaders, narrative stories, natives-canaanites,stress on judah
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characteristics of P
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elohim, cultic approach to god, stress on law obeyed, majestic speech of god, stresses the cultic, dry lists of schemeta, stress on judah
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characteristics of E
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elohim, god speaks in dreams, stress on fear of the Lord, refined speech about god, stresse the prophetic, narrative and warnings, stress on N. Israel, uses Horeb, calls natives amorites
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what is the documentary hypothesis
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theory of 4 sources JEPD
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what is prehistory and what part of the OT can be defined as prehistory
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collection of rememberances and theological reflections before exodus
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compare and contrast two creation storie
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1st-priestly, neat 7 steps, god transcendant and majestic, gods word is effective
2nd-told in form of story, god is imminent and accessable, accounts for the presence of sin |
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define etiological
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explains reasoning
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what is the epic of gilgamesh
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has parallels to noahs ark, tried to be immortal but failed
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in what sense can gen 1-11 be considered mythological?
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LOOK UP
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what is a ziggurat
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temple tower, 'raised to the gods'
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what is enuma elish
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babylonian scriptures (p authors copied it)
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hows does boadt describe the lifestyle of abraham and his descendants
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chiefs of wealthy clans, depend on raising small livestock, semipermanent roots near large cities
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what did god promise abraham
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he'll become great nation(implying great numbers and territory), control other nations
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define eponym
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person from whom a tribe of nation gets its name
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define theophany
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"appearance of god"
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when was the middle bronze age
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2000-1700 BC
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Who were ishmael and esau
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ish-abrahams son (isaac's brother)
esau-isaac's son, jacobs twin |
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what is a saga
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heroic tales about the ancestors of a well-known family, not necassarily true or false, oral
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name the main patriarchs and their wives
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abraham-sarah(hagar
isaac-rebecca jacob-rachel, lean,( zilpah, bilhah joseph-no wife |
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define hyksos
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foreign kings
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define apiru/habiru
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wandering bands of marauders
habiru? |
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what is the significance of pharoah amenhotep IV
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monotheism, wanted to change religion of egypt to similar faith
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define yahweh
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"to be", gods name
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what is the most likely time of the exodus
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1300-1280 bc
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describe palestine on the eve of the hebrew invasion
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small walled cities with kings always at war among themseves, wanted change in the balance of power
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what to anciant feasts are reflected in the celebration of passover
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sheephearders right of killin a newborn lamb and using blod to drive away evil spirits in the pasture land
ridding houses of old yeast and grain to celebrate new spring crops |
