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Exam 1 - Lecture Notes Flashcards

1
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What are the two misconceptions about the academic study of religion?

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  • It’s NOT Sunday School
  • It’s NOT about “attacking” faith
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Religious Studies

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An academic discipline within the humanities

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How is phenomenology relevant to religious studies?

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Studies the basic beliefs, rituals, practices, etc. of a religion

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True or False: the “truth question” doesn’t get in the way of understanding a religion and its history

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False: the “truth question” may interfere with understanding the context of a religion and its history

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Bracketing the Truth

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Practice of switching focus to understanding rather than the “truth question”

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What question is asked when scholars bracket out the “truth question”?

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“What do the people within the religion see as truth?”

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What are the two other disciplines that address the “truth question”?

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  • Philosophy
  • Theology
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Philosophy

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Asks the “truth question” about everything including religious beliefs

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Theology

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Asks what people should believe about God and other religious beliefs from a religious perspective

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Which discipline adopts a secular POV?

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Philosophy

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True or False: Books compiled into the Bible were produced by many different writers, storytellers, and editors two to three thousand years ago

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True

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How do the Books of the Bible connect to the people of their time?

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Books reflect their culture, folklore, history, practices, ethics, crises, events, and daily concerns

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What were the languages that the authors spoke/wrote?

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  • Hebrew
  • Aramaic
  • Greek
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Context includes the words surrounding the world and paragraph where the sentence is located and extends to…

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  • Chapter/section of the book
  • Book itself
  • Genre
  • History
  • Culture
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What is the primary task of interpretation?

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What did the ancient writer intend to communicate to
the people to whom the text was written?

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Tanakh

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Term for the Jewish Bible or Old Testament in the Christian Bible

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What does the T stand for in the Tanakh?

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Torah = Law

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What does Na stand for in the Tanakh?

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Nevi’im = Prophets

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What does Kh stand for in the Tanakh?

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Kheturim = the Writings

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Judaism, Christianity, & Islam began by following the
religion of ________ from southern Iraq

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Abraham

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21
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What was Iraq known as during time of the ancient Near East?

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Babylon

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What is the popular definition of myth?

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“Not true”

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What is the academic definition of myth?

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A story that presents “Truth” from the point of view of the culture

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How did most people in the ancient Near East believe
as a main element of the story of creation?

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Creation started from a chaos of water

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The idea of God bringing life through breath to the nostrils is similar with what culture’s account of creation?

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Egyptian

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True or False: People in the near East didn’t had an issue with multiple explanations of the same event

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True

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True or False: in the ancient Near East, people believed that deities owned different cities/countries

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True

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What is the general summary of the Myth of Enki and Ninhursag (Sumerian)?

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  • Creation occurs over a chaos of water
  • Humans are created from clay and are made in the likeness of the deities
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What were the names of the original couple in the Enuma Elish creation story?

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Apsu & Tiamat

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The Enuma Elish Creation Story belonged to what culture?

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Babylonians

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What brought about the downfall of the original couple in the Enuma Elish creation story?

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Apsu = was killed by Ea when he tried to destroy the younger warriors

Tiamat = killed by Marduk for releasing sea monsters after the death of Apsu

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What is the Ea-Enki account of the creation of humans?

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Ea-Enki - male deity gives birth; humans made from clay with blood of a deity

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What is the Nintu-Mami account of the creation of humans?

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Nintu-Mami takes saliva from council and mixes it with clay to create humans

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What account for the creation of humans involves both Ea-Enki and Nintu-Mami?

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Ea-Enki conceives 14 humans with Nintu-Mami and shaped from clay

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Why did Enlil want to bring about the flood according to the Babylonians?

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Humans were making too much noise and it disrupted their sleep

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How does Ea-Enki eventually tells Atrahasis about the upcoming flood?

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Talks to himself/Atrahasis in a dream and tells him to build a boat with his animals and family

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37
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Why is Enkidu executed in the Epic of Gilgamesh?

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Enkidu, along with Gilgamesh, killed the Bull of Heaven sent after them by Ishtar after Gilgamesh rejected her

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38
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What happens to Utnapishtim and his wife after the flood?

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Enlil grants them both immortality

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39
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What was the Earth viewed as before the creation in Genesis?

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A dark, formless void until a wind from God swept over the faces of the waters

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40
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How was God’s creation of the Earth divided?

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Divided up the creation of Earth in seven days

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What did God create on the first day in Genesis?

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Light and darkness (day and night)

42
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What did God create on the second day in Genesis?

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Dome, separation of waters from the waters

43
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What did God create on the third day in Genesis?

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Dry land and plant life

44
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What did God create on the fourth day in Genesis?

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Sun, moon, and stars

45
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What did God create on the fifth day in Genesis?

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Birds, fish, sea monsters

46
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What did God create on the sixth day in Genesis?

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Land animals, humans

47
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What does God do on the seventh day in Genesis?

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Rests

48
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How does the KJV translation translate the word dome to?

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Firmament

49
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How was man created in the creation account in Genesis 2?

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God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life

50
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How was woman created in the creation account in Genesis 2?

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God caused the man to go into a deep sleep and took one of his ribs, close up the flesh, and makes woman from the rib

51
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What is considered to be the Divine, sacred name?

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Yahweh

52
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In the Torah, when one finds LORD, this indicates the name is?

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Yahweh

53
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In the Torah, when one finds Lord, this indicates the name is?

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Adonai

54
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What are the four sources identified for the Torah?

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J - The Yahwist

E - The Elohist

D - The Deuteronomists

P - The Priestly Writer

55
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What are the characteristics of the J source?

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Source likes to use the name “Yahweh” over and over

56
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What are the characteristics of the E source?

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Prefers Elohim (generic name) when talking about God

57
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What are the characteristics of the D source?

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Book of Deuteronomy

58
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What are the characteristics of the P source?

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Frequently includes items that would be of interest to a priest

59
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What five books of the Bible are in the Torah?

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

60
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What is the academic POV for history?

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History is our attempt to reconstruct what happened

61
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Pre-History

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Events go far back that there’s not enough reliable evidence for them either way

62
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What does the first account of creation in Genesis focus on?

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Emphasizes the idea of one God that speaks thing into existence and the Sabbath as a day of rest

63
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What does the second account of creation in Genesis focus on?

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Primarily focuses on humans

64
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What were the punishments given after the Fall?

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The Snake = will no longer have legs

Eve = increased pain in childbirth

Adam = will have to work for a living

65
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What was the sign of the covenant God makes with Noah after the flood?

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A rainbow

66
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What was Abraham’s part of the covenant God made with him?

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Obey God

67
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What was God’s part of the covenant He made with Abraham?

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A Nation - God will give Abraham descendants who will become a mighty nation

The Land - God will give Abraham the land of Canaan as a place for this land to live

A Blessing to the Nations - they will be a blessing to the other nations of the world

68
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What was the basic concept of God’s Chosen People?

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  • Basic idea is that God takes one man who obeys God
  • From the man and his wife, God develops a nation of people who obey
  • Living in their land, they become an example to the rest of the world of what it means to obey God
69
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What did God asked Abraham, his son, and slaves to do as part of the covenant?

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Be circumcised

70
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What are the three parts of Exodus?

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Egypt - Yahweh’s deliverance of Israel chapters 1-12

Mt Sinai - institution of a system of worshiping Yahweh ch. 19-40

The Wilderness Trek - 12:37-19:2 serves as a linking of the two settings

71
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What was the name that Abraham, Isaac, and Israel knew God as?

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“El on the Mountain”

72
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In Exodus, how many plagues did Moses cast onto the Egyptians?

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10

73
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In Psalm 78, how many plagues did Moses cast onto the Egyptians?

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7

74
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In Psalm 105, how many plagues did Moses cast onto the Egyptians?

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8

75
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What was the plague that finally made Pharoah to let the Israelites go?

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The death of every Egyptian’s firstborn child or animal

76
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How would the messenger know not to kill the firstborns of the Israelites?

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Israelites had to sacrifice a lamb and put its blood on their doorposts

77
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The events of the Exodus would form the basis of what holiday?

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Passover

78
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The Exodus are told in how many versions?

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3

79
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Which version told of Moses stretching out his hand to part the waters?

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P - The Priestly Writer

80
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Which version told of God driving back the sea with an east wind?

A

J/E sources

81
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Most scholars date the events of Exodus occuring in what timeframe?

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About 1290 - 1250 BCE

82
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What are some of the historical issues concerning the Exodus?

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  • Doubts over a population growing from 70 to 2-3 million by the time of Exodus
  • Questions over how a 600,000 army would fear the Egyptians
  • No record of the Exodus occurred in Egyptian history
  • No archaeological evidence of the Israelites living in Egypt or wondering the wilderness
83
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True or False: Israel’s case laws are clearly copied and adapted from law codes of other, older countries

A

True

84
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What king of Judah discovered the law code of what was some of the chapters from Deuteronomy?

A

Josiah

85
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What does DTR1 refer to?

A

Deuteronomy (1st edition), which contained edits to the law code and add material to it

86
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When was DTR2 created?

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Around 560 BCE during the exile

87
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What additions/differences were in DTR2?

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Edited DTR1 and added some more material

88
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Which chapters in Deuteronomy comprised DTR1?

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Chapters 5-30

89
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What chapters in Deuteronomy comprised DTR2?

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Chapters 1-5 and 31-34

90
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Pseduonymity

A

Placing someone else’s name on a book as though that person wrote it

91
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Why was El never attacked in the Bible?

A

Evidence seems to prove that they knew El was the
original God of Israel worshiped by people in the past

92
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What is the name of the first book in the Nevi’im?

A

Joshua

93
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What are the three major sections of the Nevi’im?

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  • Historical books/former prophets
  • Major prophets
  • The 12/Minor prophets
94
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When did the events in Joshua occurred according to scholars?

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1250 - 1200 BCE

95
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What summarizes the main actions in the Book of Joshua?

A

Joshua and the armies of Israel attacking and destroying city after city to take over the land of Canaan

96
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What is the name of the woman in Jericho who hid the Israelite spies and who her and her family were later protected?

A

Rahab

97
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What was the role of corporate identity in ancient Israel?

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The individual is identified with the group and the group with the individual

98
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How does the Book of Judges depict Joshua and the Conquest?

A

One finds the tribes of Israel living the land, surrounded everywhere by Canaanites and Philistines, and gets in local wars as they gradually take over Canaan

99
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Herem

A

To destroy something in religious devotion

100
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How is Mesha’s Stele similar to the Book of Joshua?

A

Mesha believed that Kamosh tells him to attack and kill Israelites

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