Final Knowledge Flashcards
When was the telescope discovered?
1609
Date of young earth creationist flood?
2344 BCE
When was On The Origins of Species published?
1859
What are the four major motifs in origins?
De Novo Creation, a lost idyllic age, tribal formation, and a great flood.
What is De Novo creation?
Sudden and complete origin of the universe and life, often including the first man and woman.
What etiological question does De Novo creation answer?
What is the cause/reason for the origin of the world and people?
What is the lost idyllic age?
An account of something going wrong in the world; disruption of original harmony whose consequences continue into the present.
What etiological question does the lost idyllic age answer?
What is the cause/reason for bad things in the world?
What is the tribal formation motif?
Retrojection of the knowledge that humans give birth to humans, there must have been an original tribal head of all humanity
What etiological question does tribal formation answer?
What is the cause/reason for the origin of our people?
What is the great flood motif?
A destruction of life and survival of a few humans and some animals
What etiological question does the great flood answer?
What was the reason for that flood?
What are the 6 stages of recycling and reinterpreting?
- Conception of Mesopotamian and Egyptian motifs of origins (oral societies)
- Ancient historiography (literate societies)
- Israel appears in the ANE and inherits motifs
- Israel recycles reinterprets these motifs
- Israel becomes literate and writes down the J and P accounts
- J and P are combined by the redactor around 500 BCE
When did Israel first appear in the ANE?
1200 BCE
What are Lamoureux’s three conclusions to the question of Genesis 1-11?
Gen 1-11 is a separate literary genre than the rest of the Bible.
The redactor made things confusing by trying to historicize Genesis.
Separate, don’t conflate.