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9/23 Test Flashcards

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Wesleyan Quadrilateral

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A tool used to define truth
Reason, Experience, Scripture, Tradition

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Shiprah

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One of the Midwives that refused pharaoh’s order to kill the Hebrew babies

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Sarah

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Sarah is unable to have children for most of her life and uses Hagar as a surrogate to birth Ishmael, but at 90 ears old God blesses her with the birth of Issac.

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Rebekah

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She becomes Issac’s wife, gives birth to twin sons after initial barrenness, and finally obtains the primary place in the lineage for her younger son, Jacob, who is destined to become ancestor of all Israel.

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Rachel

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Jacob’s favorite wife

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Puah

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Midwife that refused pharaoh’s order to kill the Hebrew babies

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Pharaoh’s daughter

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Saved baby Moses from the nile

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Pharaoh

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He imposes unreasonable quotas on his Israelite slaves, issues an edict to kill their firstborn males and pits himself against Yahweh and his ten plagues.

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Noah

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After receiving a message from God, Noah built an ark, on which all the animals on the earth went, two by two, to escape drowning in the great flood, which lasted 40 days and 40 nights

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Moses’ Mother

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The mother, in defiance of the Pharaoh’s order that every male Hebrew child be killed, hides her newborn son for three months and then places him in a basket in the Nile.

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Moses

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The Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red Sea on a journey known as the Exodus

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Miriam

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Moses’ sister “prophetess” when she leads the Israelites in the Song of the Sea after the Pharaoh’s army is destroyed at the Yam Suph

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Leah

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Jacob’s first wife. Many of the stories about her center around her turbulent relationship with her sister, as they are both Jacob’s wives. Jacob clearly prefers Rachel, and God compensates Leah by making her fertile while Rachel remains barren.

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Joseph

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Jacob’s favorite among his twelve sons. His envious brothers sold him as a slave, but Jospeh rose to become prime minister of Egypt, where he was ultimately able to save his family from starvation

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Jacob

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The younger of Issac and Rebekah’s twin sons, he tricked his brother into giving him his inheritance and his father into giving him the firstborn’s blessing, thus becoming his heir. Through him God renewed the covenant with Abraham’s descendants.

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Ishmael

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Abraham’s son by Hagar, Sarah’s servant. The founder of the Arab tribes (1st son)

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Issac

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Abraham’s son that God promised to give him with his wife, Sarah; he became the father of Jacob

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Hagar

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She is introduced as an Egyptian slave woman who belongs to Abrams wife Sarai. Since Sarai is unable to conceive, she gives Hagar to Abram as a wife so that she may have children through Hagar

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Eve

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God create Eve from Adam’s rib to be a helper for him. God’s only instruction to Adam and Eve was to not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, Eve was tempted by a serpent, ate the fruit from the tree, and gave some to Adam as well.

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Esau

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The elder of Issac and Rebekah’s twin sons. The ancestor of the Edomites. He gave up his birthright for a bowl of Jacob’s stew.

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Decalogue

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Ten Commandments

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Canon

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The collection of books the church recognizes as the inspired Word of God.
A set of authoritative texts
Canon-> Kanon -> Measuring stick

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Cain

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From the story of Adam and Eve’s son Cain, who killed his brother Abel out of jealousy

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Bible

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Biblia (“books”)

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Akedah

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Binding of Issac

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Adam (The earth critter)

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Sin of the first man, Adam, who disobeyed God in eating the forbidden fruit and, in consequence, transmitted his sin and guilt by heredity to his descendants.

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The abrahamic faiths

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Judaism, Christainity, Islam

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Abraham

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The first Hebrew patriarch and is revered in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Bible, he was called by God to journey to a new land, where he founded a new nation.

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Abel

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Abel, a Shepard, offered the Lord the firstborn of his flock. The Lord repsected Abel’s sacrifice but did not respect that offered by Cain. In jealous rage, cain murdered Abel.

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Aaron

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a priest

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What are some themes of the Torah

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God’s preference for those whom humans might overlook
Hospitality
Justice
Covenant/Divine promises only partially fufilled
Wandering/Wilderness
Fertility/infertility

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What did the Hebrew midwives in the story of Moses do, and why were their actions significant?

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The midwives responded to Pharaoh with a lie, telling him the Hebrew women gave birth before the midwives arrive.

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Where does the Jewish tradition of Passover come from?

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Commemorates the slavery of the Israelites in Egypt and their ultimate exodus to freedom

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Where does our metaphor for this class as a process of “wrestling” with the Bible come from?

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As a result of the struggle, Jacob is blessed and given the name Israel, which means “He struggles with god”. The story symbolizes the struggle for blessing and identity, showing how wrestling with God can lead to transformation and a deeper relationship with him

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What does the Bible indicate the sin of Sodom was?

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Neglect of the poor and needy, lies, greed, and luxury

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What happened at the Tower of Babel?

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the babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a might city and a tower “with its top in the heavens” God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers so that they could no longer understand one another.

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Etiology

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Orgin story

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What is the documentary hypothesis?

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First five books of the Bible were not written completely by Moses but by different authors

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What happened in the story from which we got “the curse of Ham”

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It occurs in the context of Noah’s drunkennes and it is provoked by a shameful act that was perpetrated by Noah’s son Ham, who “saw the nakedness of his father”

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Difference between embedded and deliberative theology?

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Embedded: Thing we know without knowing we know them
Deliberative: Understanding of faith that emerges from a process of carefully reflecting

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Differences between Genesis 1 and genesis 2-3 stories

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Genesis 1: States animals and finally humans, were created on day 6
Genesis 2: Humans were created before animals

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How does understanding of literary genres contribute to our reading and understanding of the Bible?

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SO that we can understand the meaning the scared writers really intended, so we can understand what’s being said.

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What is a canon?

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A set of authoritative texts
Canon -> measuring stick

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What are the four corners of the Wesleyan quadrilateral?

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Reason, experience, scripture, tradition

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In what languages was the Bible first written

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Hebrew and Greek

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What are the first five books of the Bible called?

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Genesis,Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

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What are the two ways we might denote the collection of books known as the Old Testament

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Hebrew Bible
Tanakh

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Difference between dynamic equivalence translation of the Bible and a formal correspondence translation

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Dynamic: Paraphrase
Formal: Word for word

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hermeneutics

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The art and technique of interpreting texts

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What are the parts of the Bible- the testaments, the sections or kinds of literature within each testament?

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Old Testament (Hebrew)
Bible Tanakh
Torah (law)
Nevi’m (prophets)
Kethuvim (writings)

New Testament (Greek)
Gospels
History
Epistles (letters)
Apocalyptic literature

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