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Key Terms Ch. 1 Flashcards

1
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the second son of Adam and Eve; he was murdered by his brother Cain

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Abel

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the first male who God created; he and his mate, Eve, disobeyed God and were expelled from the garden of Eden

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Adam/adamah

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the god of the freshwater ocean in the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story

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Apsu

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the name of a Mesopotamian city with a tower as told in Genesis 11; means “gate of God”

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Babel

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divine favor and approval; a mark of God’s grace and evidence of his protecting and prospering presence

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blessing

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the first son of Adam and Eve; he murdered his brother Abel

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Cain

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the disordered state of unformed matter that existed before the universe was ordered

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Chaos

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a model of the structure of the physical universe; the Israelites viewed the world as an inhabitable region surrounded by water

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cosmology

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a pact or formal agreement between two parties in which there are mutual obligations and expectations

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covenant

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what has been brought into being; the Hebrew Bible attributes this to Israel’s God

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creation

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consisting of the “sons of God,” a council of angels who surrounded God and served perhaps as his deliberative assembly

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Divine Council

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12
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the place God located the first created humans, Adam and Eve

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Eden

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a Babylonian story of creation, featuring Apsu, Tiamat, and Marduk

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Enuma Elish

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the first female who God created; her name means “life”

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Eve

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15
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the disobedience and expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden

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Fall

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the watery inundation during the time of Noah that destroyed all life on earth except for Noah and the representative sample of created things that survived in the ark

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Flood

17
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a list or family tree of ancestors or descendants

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genealogy

18
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a Babylonian epic centering on Gilgamesh, an ancient king of Uruk; the eleventh tablet of this epic contains a story of a flood that has parallels to the biblical story of Noah and the ark

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Gilgamesh Epic

19
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one of the sons of Noah; he abused his father and Canaan, his son, was cursed for it

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Ham

20
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phrase deriving from Genesis 1:26-7; God created humankind in his own image

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Image of God

21
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a literary technique that begins and ends a unit of text with the same or similar words to create wholeness and literary closure

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inclusion

22
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one of the sons of Noah, he was blessed because with Shem he covered his father’s nakedness

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Japheth

23
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a compound divine name; a translation of YHWH Elohim

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Lord God

24
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the chief god of the Babylonians and patron god of Babylon; he is the hero-god of the Enuma Elish

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Marduk

25
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a story, theme, object, or character regarded as embodying a foundational aspect of a culture

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myth

26
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built a boat and survived the Flood with his family and representatives of the animal world; God made a covenant with him, promising never again to destroy the world with a flood

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Noah

27
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in classical Christian thought, the fundamental state of sinfulness and guilt, inherited from the first man Adam, that infects all of humanity but can be removed through depending on Christ

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Original Sin

28
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the account of earliest events found in Genesis 1-11

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Primeval Story

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the seventh day of the week, a day of rest and worship; extends from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; it was the sign of the Mosaic covenant

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Sabbath

30
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one of the three sons of Noah, he was chosen for special blessing; he was an ancestor of Abraham

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Shem

31
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the female saltwater ocean goddess who fought Marduk; out of her body were created heaven and earth

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Tiamat

32
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the ten “generations” used in Genesis as a way of structuring the history told in the book

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Toledot

33
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the tower of Genesis 11 built by humans and interpreted by God as an act of defiance

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Tower of Babel

34
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the seas conceived as monsters who challenged YHWH’s power and authority

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waters of chaos

35
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of Sumerian origin, a Mesopotamian pyramidal-staged temple tower of which the tower of Babel was one

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Ziggurat

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