Chapter 2 - Pentateuch

Question 1

What Biblical story is the Enuma Elish similar to?

Answer 1

Creation

Question 2

Where did the Enuma Elish originate?

Answer 2

Babylon

Question 3

The Jordan river flows between which bodies of water?

Answer 3

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea

Question 4

Which geographical area stretches from Egypt, through Syria-Palestine, into Mesopotamia?

Answer 4

The Fertile Crescent

Question 5

What does the name Abram mean?

Answer 5

Great Father

Question 6

Where was Abram when God called him?

Answer 6

Ur

Question 7

What god did the people of Ur worship?

Answer 7

The god of the moon

Question 8

What act of grace followed the eating of the fruit in the garden of Eden?

Answer 8

The gift of clothing

Question 9

What act of grace followed Cain killing Abel?

Answer 9

The Mark of Protection

Question 10

What act of grace followed the Flood?

Answer 10

Noah and the Arc

Question 11

What act of grace followed the Tower of Babel dispersion of the nations?

Answer 11

Abram/Abraham and God’s covenant with him

Question 12

What was God’s Covenant with Abram (Gen 12:1-3)

Answer 12

A promise of land, blessing (to be a blessing to all families of the earth), and to make him a great nation

Question 13

Exodus meaning

Answer 13

Going out

Question 14

Tetragrammaton

Answer 14

YHWH

Question 15

Another word used for deliver (deliverance) in the LXX

Answer 15

Save (salvation)

Question 16

What were the three things God promised Abram in Gen. 12:1-3?

Answer 16

To make Abraham’s name great
To bless him and to bless others through him
To make him a great nation

Question 17

What does Israel mean?

Answer 17

Strive with God

Question 18

What is Casuistic Law?

Answer 18

If this, then that laws

Question 19

What is Apodictic Law?

Answer 19

Given on the authority of the lawgiver and is a basic, universal statement. Most of the ten commandments are apodictic law.

Question 20

In what Jewish ritual is the scapegoat involved?

Answer 20

The Day of Atonement

Question 21

The genealogy that concludes the primeval history introduces which two characters?

Answer 21

Abram and Sari

Question 22

Where did the Ancestral Family originate

Answer 22

Ur

Question 23

What happened at Kadesh-Barnea

Answer 23

The Hebrews rebelled against God and did not go into the promised land

Question 24

Which story in primeval history describes the origins of the world’s many languages and nations?

Answer 24

The Tower of Babel

Question 25

Which patriarch had his name changed to Israel as a result of a wrestling match with the Lord?

Answer 25

Jacob

Question 26

What is physical sign of the covenant relationship, repeated with each generation, between the ancestral family and God?

Answer 26

Circumcision

Question 27

What Hebrew verb is associated with the divine name YHWH?

Answer 27

To be