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Final Flashcards

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Deuteronomistic History

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D source that edited it (informed by the deteronmy principles)
tells a narrative history of Israel
Is joshua through 2 kings (not ruth)
Uses legal language
3 themes-oneness or exclusive worship of Yahweh (one God, one land, one people)
-worship should only occur at the place God chooses (jerusalem temple)
-there is a covenant made by God with the David family

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THe Ark Narrative

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the story of the ark of the covenant-captured by the philistines (because Israel was worshiping gods other than Yahwah) , returned to Israelite territory and its transfer to jerusalem by david

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Sin of Jeroboam

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re-establishes the temple in Bethel and Dan (moves the ark there)
Sin because is in enemy territory (in the northern kingdom)
Jeroboam did this to discourage worship by his subjects in jerusalem
VIOLATES THE PRINCIPLE OF A CENTRAL SANCTUARY FOR ALL ISRAEL (SEEN AS IDOLATRY)

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Zion Theology

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idea that Jerusalem is safe casue Yahweh’s presence is there
psalm 48 shows how indestructable peopel thought Jersusalem was
-is why the exile of it in 586 was so hard
-reworked the theology that you can worship God outside of Jeursalem

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King Josiah’s reform

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Josiah removed all the shrines in Jerusalem and destroyed them.

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Divine Counsel

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God’s assembly of the gods; seen in Isaiah as he and Micaiah sit in on the counsel and Isaiah volenteers (Isaiah 6: 8)
Psalm 82
also seen in Job 1:6 coming to report on Job

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Holy, Holy, Holy

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what the angels say when they are praising God

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Theodicy

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the way to attempt to explain why God allows evil to happen; especially the suffering of innocent
Word in greek means divine justice
Seen in JOB

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586 bce

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Southern Kingdom of Judah is exlied by Bablonianes

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722 bce

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Northern Kingdom of Israel is exiled by Assierians

WAS THE FALL OF SAMARIA

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United Monarchy

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during the 8th century under David, the 10 tribes of the northern kingdom (Israel) and the 1 southern kingdom (judah) tribe, judah were united under rule; when solomon died, the kingdom slipt into the northern kingdom of israel and the southern kingdom of judah

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Divided Monarchy

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Southern kingdom of judah and northern kingdom of israel

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Sign Act

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prophet acts something out/ puts on a costume of some sort

done to make a point;

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Call Narrative

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when God calls someone to do something spectauclar; usually picks someone no one else thinks is special, person always declines at first and then god shows his power and then they accept
Jonah and the whale
Isaiah 6
Jeremiah 1

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Day of the Lord

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day that Yahweh comes and fights for his people as a warrior

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Ahab

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was king of Israel, succeeded Omri; married Jezebel

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divination

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consultation of the dead

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Rehoboam

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Solomons son, ruled southern kingdom of judah

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Davidic covenant

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covenant with Yahweh that guarented David’s family would sit on the throne forever; just must keep commands; the captial city (jerusalem would never be destroyed)
WILL ENDURE FOREVER

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messiah

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anointed one

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Solomon

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David’s son and sucessor; builds a temple for Yahweh; worshiped other gods at the end of his reign

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royal ideology

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had a huge impact on the Davidic monarchy ; a cluster of concepts that both derived from and supported and shaped the institution of the monarchy

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Absalom

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son of david who killed his half-brother amnon. Leter he led a revolt against his father’s rule but was defeated and killed

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Bathsheba

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wife of uriah the hittite, one of king david’s warriors; david commited audltury with her

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city of david

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another name for jerusalem

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zion

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another name for jerusalem. used especially in poetic texts

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Succession Narrative

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the originally independent source incorporated into the deuteronomic history that relates how Soloman eventually succeeded David on the throne

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Hannah

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wife of Elkanah and mother of samuel

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Jonathan

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son of Saul and close friend to david

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Saul

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the first king of israel, was succeeded by David after his death in the battle with the Philistines

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Samuel

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a prophet, priest and judge; anointed saul and david as israel’s first kings

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Michal

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Daughter of Saul and wife of David

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Ruth

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a moabite tha tbecomes the mother of Obed and the great grandmother of David

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Moabiates

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israel’s neighbors east of the dead sea, sons of moab

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Deborah

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one of the judges who led a coalition of israelite tribes against canaanite adversaries

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Ammonities

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israel’s neighbors to the east of the jordan river, sons of ammon

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Joshua

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moses’s successor; led the israelities into the promise land

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ban

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something dedicated to a deity and restricted for the deity’s use

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Gibeonites

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group fo canaanites who tricked joshua and the israelitesin to making a covenant with them

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Shechem

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a city in central israel that was an important political and religious center thoughout the bible; joshua renews covenant here

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Amos

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prophet in Israel

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Hosea

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a prophet in the northern kingdom of Israel

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covenant lawsuit

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a genre used by the prophets in which israel is put on trial by yahweh for having violated the covenant

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Ahaz

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king of judah who became an assyrian vassal

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Immanuel

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child whose birth and early life was signs from GOd to Ahaz king of juadan during the syro-ephraimite war; son of isaiah

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Isaiah

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a prophet in Judah who advised ahaz and hezekiah

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Hezekiah

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king of Judah, during his reign were attacked by assyrian people; advised by isaiah

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Hezekiah tunnel

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under the city of david whihch was made to divert the waters flowing from the Gihon Spring into a location within the city wall

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Josiah

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king of Judah who conducted a reform of worship inspired by a version of the book of deuteronomy

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Ashurbanipal

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king of assyria under whom the assyrians fully conquored egypt

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Manasseh

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king of Judah and was an evil king

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Nahum

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prophet in udah

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Zaephaniah

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a prophet in Judah

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Jeremiah

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a prophet in Judah who interpreted the destruction of jerusalem as divine punishment

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Zedkiah

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last king of Judah whose reign involved jerusalem was destroyed by the babylonians

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Habakkuk

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a prophet in Judah

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Ezekiel

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a prophet among the exiles in babylonia

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Synagogue

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means gathering together; assemblies of jews and the building in which they took place

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acrostic

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a text in which the opening letter of successive lines form a word or pattern

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Diaspora

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scattering or dispersion used to refer to judah to babaloynia exiles

Intro to the Old Testament (1 decks)

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