Genesis

Question 1

Elohist (E)

Answer 1

• refers to God as Elohim
• appears in Hebrew names
• places emphasis on prophecies

Question 2

Elohim

Answer 2

a common semitic work for God used in the Bible

Question 3

Deuteronomist (D)

Answer 3

• “second law”
• places emphasis on morality
• emphasized keeping God’s law

Question 4

Priestly (P)

Answer 4

• focuses on family trees, genealogies, numbers, and dates
• refers to God as Elohim
• focuses on the temple

Question 5

Enuma Elish

Answer 5

• creation is a result of divine warfare between the gods
• the gods fight and kill each other
• humans are made to be the saves of the gods so the gods don’t have to work

Question 6

Yahwist (J)

Answer 6

• employs a vivid, earthy style of writing

- show God as anthropromorphic

Question 7

protoevangelium

Answer 7

• God created human beings out of love

- human race is affected by sin, but can be set free by Christ jesys

Question 8

prehistory

Answer 8

a period of time that refers to events or objects that date before the written record existed

Question 9

Israelites

Answer 9

named for Jacob’s new name, Israel

Question 10

Hebrews

Answer 10

from the Egyptian ‘apiru’ referring to wandering semitic people from Canaan

Question 11

Jews

Answer 11

this name came later referring to the surviving tribe of “Judah” after the Babylonian Exile

Question 12

Original Justice/Holiness

Answer 12

• friendship with God
• we are in harmony with nature
• harmony with each other
• no death
• how God intended things to be

Question 13

Original Sin

Answer 13

• humans turn on each other
• separated from God
• alienated from nature
• death is in the world