Mid Term Exam Flashcards
What has many different styles of writing and can be very artistic?
Wisdom
What is a blessed sacrament involving the unity of a man and a woman?
Marriage
What does Protovangelium mean?
First Gospel
What is the first five book s also called?
Torah
Where was Goliath from?
Philistine
Who was the most notorious of all of Cain’s descendants?
Lamech
What were Abram, his father and brothers jobs?
Caravan traders
Who did not disrespect Noah?
Shem and Japeth
What Abram’s wife suggestion for him to help speed up fulfilling God’s covenant with him?
Take a second wife
What is an external sign of God’s covenant with Abram?
Circumcision
Who lived for their own personal glory?
Cainites
What did the descendants of Ham try to build to help them build a great city?
Tower of Babel
What were the names of Abram’s brothers?
Nahor and Haran
What is a physical sign of God’s covenant with Noah?
Rainbow
Who are the only people who are able to touch or transport the Ark of the Covenant?
Levite priests
Who was Jacob the favorite son of?
Rebekah
Why did Abraham send his servant to Mesopotamia?
Find a wife for Isaac
Why was Moses reunited with his mother?
She was his nurse
What did the new Pharaoh establish in Egypt?
enslaved Israelites
forced women to marry Egyptian men
all male babies killed
Why is Joseph Jacob’s favorite son?
He is Rachel’s son
Why was Rachel frustrated in her marriage?
She was unable to have children
Where did Joseph’s descendants prosper?
Egypt
What did Moses birth mother teach him?
The Hebrew faith
Why did Jacob trick his father into thinking he was Esau?
To get his blessing
Why is the Great Flood seen as precursor to today?
Baptism
Who lived for the glory of God?
Sethites
Who will never step foot in Canaan?
Moses
What was the name of the first city that the Israelites attacked in Canaan?
Jericho
Why did they attack Jericho first?
it was a strategic location
Why did the Israelites wander in the wilderness for so long?
they doubted God
Who took over leadership over the Israelites after Moses’ death?
Joshua
Why was Jericho a tough city to attack?
it had great walls around it
What did David use to defeat Goliath?
Slingshot
Where did Samuel have to go to find Israel’s second king?
Jesse
What city does David make the capital of Israel?
Jerusalem
What does David bring to ensure that Jerusalem is also the religious capital?
Ark of the Covenant
How did Solomon make Israel known and powerful?
building a great navy
building a temple
his reputation of wisdom, wealth, and power
What is Solomon and many of his close advisors credited with?
The wisdom literature
How would the prophet Abijah reveal to Jeroboam that he would rue most of Israel?
tearing his garment into 12 pieces
Who saved Israel from a civil war by telling Rehoboam that God took Israel from him?
Shemaiah
What false prophet of a pagan god did Elijah defeat?
Baal
What nation hated the Israelites?
Samaritans
What is the Greek influence known as?
Hellenization
Who led a revolt against the Greeks and gained back most of the Davidic Kingdom for Israel?
Matthias Maccabeus
To what city did Herod the Great march into and take the power of?
Jersualem
On what mountain did John Hyrcanus destroy a temple?
Gerizim
Why was King Herod called the great?
economic prosperity
What were local Jewish Kings in the Roman Empire used for?
Roman tributaries
What was comprised mostly of small towns with poor farmers?
Galilee
Where was the Samaritans temple?
On Mt. Gerizim
Who were the Sons of God?
The Sethites
Who were the Daughters of Men?
The Cainites
What is the name of a great port city?
Ur
Who was the mother of Abraham’s heir to the kingship?
Sarah
Who was Abraham’s youngest son and heir?
Isaac
Who was the son of Cain?
Enoch
What is the name of the city similar to Ur?
Haran
Who was the father of Abram?
Terah
Who was Abram’s first son?
Ishmael
What is Abram’s second wife?
Hagar
Who was the son of Seth?
Enosh
Were God was going to have Isaac sacrificed?
Moriah
Who was the nephew of Abraham?
Lot
Who was the twin brother of Jacob - birth rites were stolen from him?
Esau
Who was the woman Jacob was tricked into marrying?
Leah
Who was Jacob’s favorite wife?
Rachel
Who was the Favorite son of Jacob?
Joseph
What is the name of Isaac’s wife?
Rebekah
Who was the man with 12 sons?
Jacob
Who was the son of Abraham and was tricked by Jacob?
Isaac
What was Joseph’s Egyptian name?
Zaphenathpanea
Who tried to convince his brother not to kill Jacob?
Reuben
Who was the brother - in - law of Moses?
Aaron
What was the name of Jacob’s uncle?
Laban
What was the name given to Jacob by God?
Israel
What was a set of more lenient laws - second law?
Deuteronomy
What gives a census of all the tribes?
Numbers
What is the name of the spy that had confidence of invading Canaan?
Caleb
Who led the Israelites into the promised land?
Joshua
Who was the 1st king of Israel?
Saul
What is another name for the promised land?
Canaan
Who was the last judge of Israel?
Samuel
What is the name of the priestly tribe?
Levites
Who was the persistent enemy of Israel - assembled a large army?
Philistines
What is the name of the 1st city taken in promised land by the Israelites?
Jericho
What is a very strict set of laws given to the Israelites?
Leviticus
Who aided the Israelite spies in Jericho?
Rahab
What is the civilization of people that negatively influenced Israel men?
Moab
Who led the Israelites throughout the wilderness?
Moses
What is the name of the city that Saul was instructed to destroy completely?
Amalek
Who was the son of wise King Solomon?
Rehoboam
Who built a pagan temple in Samaria?
Abijah
Who was the King of Israel that married Sidonian princess and fell into worshipping her god?
Ahab
Who worshipped a pagan god as Queen of Israel and persecuted all those who spoke out against it?
Jezebel
Who tried to get Egypt to ally with Israel to defeat the Assyrians?
Hoshea
Who found out about Hoshea’s plan and kicked all the influential Israelites out of the capital?
Salameneser
Who stopped a civil war in Israel when it split?
Shemaiah
Who tore his garment into 12 pieces and handed 10 of them to someone?
Jeroboam
What did God create in each “day?”
Day 1 - - Night and Day Day 2 - - Sky and Sea Day 3 - - Land and Vegitation Day 4 - - Sun and moon Day 5 - - Fish and Birds Day 6 - - Land animals and man
Be able to fill in the chart showing the similarities between Isaac and Jesus
Isaac - - Beloved son was offered
He was obedient
He carried his own supplies
Jesus - - Beloved son was offered
He was obedient
He carried his own crossWhat are the three oaths or promises that God made with Abraham?
- Land and a nation
- Kingship and a name
- Blessing for all nations
What was Moses request to Pharaoh - and what were the conditions of Pharaoh’s negotiations?
He wanted 3 days to go out into the wilderness to worship
Were allowed to worship - but had to stay in Egypt
Explain the Passover event including the 3 conditions of the feast?
Angel of death will pass over any home with blood on the doorpost
- unleavened bread
- Roast the lamb
- Eat in traveling clothes
Be able to write the 10 commandments
- I am the Lord your God - - no false gods before me
- Do not use the Lord’s name in vain
- Remember to keep holy the sabbath day
- Honor your mother and father
- Do not kill
- Do not commit adultery
- Do not steal
- Do not bare false witness against your neighbor
- Do not covet your neighbors wife
- Do not covet your neighbors goods
What made Samuel appoint a king?
People wanted one and God said to give them one
When Saul was named King - - what was done to him that up until then only Levite priests had undergone?
Anointed with oil
In what book of the bible does Moses give the Israelites a new set of more lenient laws?
Dueteronomy
What four things does the book of Deuteronomy tell the second generation of Israelites?
- Brief history
- Why important to follow laws
- New lenient laws
- Prediction of Israel
Explain Sauls 1st and 2nd mistakes and what was his punishment for each?
- Did not wait for sacrificing material
end to his Dynasty - Did not destroy the city of Amalek COMPLETELY
Lost his kingship
Name the 7 major and 3 minor element of the Covenant with David?
Major
- David gets kingdom
- David get a Dynasty
- King becomes God’s adopted son
- Covenant is unlimited
- Jerusalem is the spiritual center of world
- Temple is sign of the covenant
- Wisdom literature is the new Torah
Minor
- Queen mother is important figure
- Prime minister is permanent feature in govt
- Thank offering becomes primary liturgy celebrated
Explain what Elijah’s greatest miracle was and tell me what happened?
Defeated prophets of Baal
What two legends are associated with Solomon’s temple?
- Built on the gates of the underworld
2. Built where Isaac was going to be sacrificed
What was introduced into the world due to Adam and Eve’s disobedience?
Sin
