9/23 Test Flashcards
Wesleyan Quadrilateral
A tool used to define truth
Reason, Experience, Scripture, Tradition
Shiprah
One of the Midwives that refused pharaoh’s order to kill the Hebrew babies
Sarah
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.
Rebekah
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.
Rachel
Jacob’s favorite wife
Puah
Midwife that refused pharaoh’s order to kill the Hebrew babies
Pharaoh’s daughter
Saved baby Moses from the nile
Pharaoh
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.
Noah
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
Moses’ Mother
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.
Moses
The Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites from Egypt across the Red Sea on a journey known as the Exodus
Miriam
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
Leah
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.
Joseph
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
Jacob
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.
Ishmael
Abraham’s son by Hagar, Sarah’s servant. The founder of the Arab tribes (1st son)
Issac
Abraham’s son that God promised to give him with his wife, Sarah; he became the father of Jacob
Hagar
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
Eve
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.
Esau
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.
Decalogue
Ten Commandments
Canon
The collection of books the church recognizes as the inspired Word of God.
A set of authoritative texts
Canon-> Kanon -> Measuring stick
Cain
From the story of Adam and Eve’s son Cain, who killed his brother Abel out of jealousy
Bible
Biblia (“books”)
