Gensis-Exodus Flashcards
Where did Jacob dwell
Canaan
Where was Jacob taken?
Egypt
What two men were placed in prison for offending the king of Egypt?
The butler and the baker
What man heard about the grain in Egypt and sent his sons to buy some
Jacob
What did Joseph ask his steward to put in the sack sack of Benjamin
His silver cup
Who was buried in the cave where Jacob wanted to be buried?
Sarah, Isaac, Leah, Abraham, and Rebekah
Genesis is the first book of a larger unit called ____
Torah aka Pentateuch
The Torah or Pentateuch consists of ________
Genesis, exodus, Leviticus, numbers, Deuteronomy
The torch tells a story that spans from ______
The creation of the world to the death of Moses
Traditional Jewish and Christian theology identifies _____ as the author of the entire Torah
Moses
True or false: according to scholars today, the Torah was written anonymously by a collection of authors.
True
What language was the Torah written in?
Hebrew
The linguistic and stylistic differences throughout the text is one indication of what?
Multiple authorship
The Torah was translated from Hebrew into Greek in the _____ century BC
3rd
The documentary Hypothesis is also called
The Graf-Wellhausen synthesis
Dinah’s mother
Leah
The text appears to have reached its canonical (official) form between:
6th and 4th century BC
The consensus within biblical scholarship is that genesis was composed in different stages…..
The 9th and 6th century BC
In the Graf-Wellhausen synthesis, E is short for…..
Elohist
In the graf-wellhausen, D is short for……
Deuteronomist
In the graf-wellhausen, P is short for..
Priestly
The jahwist source dates to:
900 BC
The Elohist source dates to:
800 BC