final exam

Question 1

Lilith

Answer 1

• shows up in the Tanak

- Adam’s first wife

Question 2

written torah

Answer 2

Tanak(Hebrew Bible)

Question 3

oral torah

Answer 3

midrash

Question 4

Lilith and eve in the later tradition

Answer 4

• she became an outcast because she insisted on equality with Adam (both created from dust)
• preferred punishment from God than to be with Adam
• takes her revenge out on babies(hurts boys on the first night of their life and hurts girls until they’re 20 days old)
• God made Eve for Adam since Lilith left
• Eve was made from his ribs because God was being cautious
• God performed the first wedding ceremony and married Adam and Eve

Question 5

Judith plaskow

Answer 5

Jewish feminist theologian that wrote “the coming of Lilith”

• in her version Adam is the one who demonized Lilith and told horrible stories of her to Eve
• Eve and Lilith become friends and Eve realizes that Lilith is a woman just like herself

Question 6

the coming of eve

Answer 6

Eve is made from Adam’s ribs in Genesis 2

Question 7

Jane I. Smith

Answer 7

wrote the piece on Women in Islam

Question 8

Quran and women

Answer 8

-men and women are equal in the eyes of God according to Quran
-women can only take one husband and he must be a Muslim yet men can have up to four wives of Jewish, Christian, or Islamic faith
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Question 9

meanings of veiling in islam

Answer 9

• upper class
• faith/modesty
• oppressive seclusion
• lower class
• faith and resistance

Question 10

huda sha’arawi

Answer 10

Egyptian feminist

in mid 1920s she publicly unveiled

Question 11

shabana mir

Answer 11

went to a Catholic school and as a young Pakistani girl wanted to wear a hijab and Sister Rose was very against it

Question 12

ilhan omar

Answer 12

MN state representative that is Somali and wears a hijab

Question 13

manusmriti

Answer 13

-laws of Manu

Question 14

brahma

Answer 14

creator of everything

Question 15

manu

Answer 15

creator of humanity

son of Brahma

Question 16

Vimalakirti sutra

Answer 16

the goddesss gives Shariputra a feminine form

Question 17

shariputra

Answer 17

the most advanced of the Buddha’s disciples

Question 18

sunyata

Answer 18

no difference between masculinity and femininity

Question 19

Thomas aquinas

Answer 19

Dominican priest anda theologian

-founder of Thomism

Question 20

natural law

Answer 20

God had a divine plan in mind for humanity and you must follow the plan to comply with natural law

Question 21

aquinas’ taxonomy of sin

Answer 21

two main taxonomies

Question 22

Jeffrey stout

Answer 22

has PhD in ethics from Princeton
-are what society considers abominations actually abominations or do the feelings of revulsion just come from us being unfamiliar with certain categories being blended

Question 23

moral abomination

Answer 23

some include bestiality, incest, pedophilia, necrophilia

Question 24

story of sodom

Answer 24

makes a bargain with God. if 10 people are innocent in Sodom then god won’t destroy it. 2 messengers go to Sodom. the mob wanted to rape the two messengers(angels), along with Lot. Lot gave up his two daughters to be raped. the angels tell Lot to leave because Sodom will be destroyed. his wife turns around to see the destruction and is turned into a pillar of salt. Abraham sees Lot was the innocent one and that God shouldn’t destroy the innocent along with the guilty.

Question 25

abraham

Answer 25

him and Sarah will have another son. he bargains with God

Question 26

Lot

Answer 26

the only innocent one out of all the people of Sodom

Question 27

destruction of sodom

Answer 27

Sodom was destroyed because of the mob

Question 28

mainstream christian interpretation of Sodom

Answer 28

because of homosexuality Sodom was destroyed

Question 29

Daniel helminiak

Answer 29

Christian with a PhD

came up and literal and historical interpretation

Question 30

literal vs historical critical interpretation

Answer 30

• literal: taking the text for what it says, no interpretation.
• historical critical- means whatever it meant to the people who wrote it long ago

Question 31

talaw

Answer 31

divorce taken at the initiative of the man

Question 32

khul

Answer 32

divorce initiated by the woman

harder for a woman to divorce a man (she must have reasonable grounds)

Question 33

Khadija

Answer 33

first wife of prophet Muhammad
first convert to Islam
he only remarried after she died

Question 34

what rights did the Quran give women

Answer 34

choice in marriage(men can have 4 wives so long as he can afford them)
divorce(must have an acceptable reason but men can say “I divorce thee” three times and that’s it)
inheritance(half the amount as men)

Question 35

what does the Quran say about veiling

Answer 35

• it doesn’t specifically require veiling

- does say that wouldn’t shouldn’t expose themselves without modesty

Question 36

sins against nature

Answer 36

most severe and include

• bestiality
• sodomy (gay sex)
• non procreative (anal and oral)
• masturbation

Question 37

sins against right reason

Answer 37

less severe and include

• incest
• rape
• sacrilege (against vows of priests. or nuns)
• adultery
• seduction (stealing bride from father)
• fornication (against welfare of a child)

Question 38

laws of Manu- requirements for a bride

Answer 38

• can’t be a redhead
• cant have extra limbs
• cant have too much or too little body hair
• can’t be named after constellation, tree, river, or have a low caste name