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MIDTERM (Recycled Quiz Questions) Flashcards

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TRUE OR FALSE: Susan Clancy believes in alien abduction

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False

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TRUE OR FALSE: Memory of the abduction traumatized the Abductees

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True

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TRUE OR FALSE: The abductees were unhappy that they had been abducted

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False

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TRUE OR FALSE: Susan Clancy experienced a false memory

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True

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TRUE OR FALSE: Abduction experiences seem to occur primarily in the United States.

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True

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Clancy discovered that the Abductees were:
Masochists?
Schizotopics?
Exhibitionists?

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Schizotopics

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At the end of forty days ____ opened the window of the ____ that he had made and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.

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Noah; Ark

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“I will put enmity (i.e., hatred) between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

  1. Who is speaking?
  2. To whom?
A
  1. God

2. The serpent

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So God created____ in his image, in the image of God he created them…

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humankind

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And _____ said to _____, “What have you done? Listen; your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground! And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

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God; Cain

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I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations.

  1. To whom is God speaking?
  2. What is the “sign of the covenant”
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  1. Noah

2. A rainbow

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So God blessed the _____ and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.

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seventh day/Sabbath

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What “primordial mythical time” is “made present” in the Jewish Sabbath?

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The seventh day of creation when God rested

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Sacred Time repeats regularly; you can re-enter it at anytime (relate to the Sabbath)

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The Sabbath takes place every Saturday. Does not take place any other day of the week.

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Imitatio Dei (Define)

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Doing what God did or what God told you to do

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Imitatio Dei (relate to the Sabbath)

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God rested on the seventh day, therefore humans should rest as well.

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Cosmogonic (define)

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Creates an ordered universe

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Sacred Time is cosmogonic (relate to the Sabbath)

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the Sabbath allows us to take a break from the work week

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A ritual enables one to enter and leave sacred time (what rituals allow this)

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Entering ritual: Kabbalat Shabbat “Welcoming the Sabbath”

Exiting ritual: Havdalah “seperation” service

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RoP Characteristic: a new identity (give an example from Gen. 17)

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Sarah and Abraham are given new names

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RoP Characteristic: Initiate undergoes an ordeal (give an example from Gen. 17)

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Abraham must be circumcised.

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What Jewish Rite of Passage is based on Genesis 17?

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Briss (Circumcision ceremony)

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There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then ___ said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight and see why the bush is not burned up.”
Q: What concept from Eliade’s TSAP does this event illustrate?

A

Moses; a hierophany

24
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Rosh Hashana

A

Jewish New Year, first day of the High Holy Days

25
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What is a shofar?

A

Ram’s horn trumpet

26
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Which Jewish festival time does the shofar symbolize? Why?

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High Holy Days; In Genesis 22 (Akedah), a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns, is sacrificed instead of Isaac. The Akedah is the theme story of the High Holy Days.

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What does a Jew have to do during the High Holy Days so that on Yom Kippur God will know their teshuvah is sincere?

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Jews must ask for forgiveness of their friends and neighbors in the days leading up to Yom Kippur, the day of Atonement

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One day, after ____ had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his kinsfolk. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

A

Moses

29
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And ____ said, “Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their ____ there…
Q: What is the name of the place where this happens?

A

God; languages

A: Tower of Babel

30
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The daughter of _____came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child.
Q: Who is the “child?”

A

Pharaoh

A: Moses

31
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the ____ and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat the lamb.
Q: What happens if the Israelites don’t do this?

A

Blood

A: Their firstborn sons will be killed by the angel of death in the 10th plague (The Death of the Firstborn)

32
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Jews believe God gave them _____ (via Moses) to help them overcome the Human Condition

A

The Torah at Mt. Sinai

33
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Christians believe God gave them ____ to help them overcome the Human Condition

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Jesus (Death and Resurrection of Jesus)

34
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Muslims believe God gave them ___ (via Muhammad) to help them overcome the Human Condition

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The Qur’an

35
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Why is the ornamental box/container usually located beside a burning candle in Catholic Churches called a Tabernacle?

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  • Named after the biblical tabernacle, a portable tend shrine God told Moses to build for the Israelites which contained the Ark [box] of the covenant [holds 10 commandments]
  • [Christianity] Jesus = God’s Word Made Flesh. His presence reproduces the same thing as the original tabernacle - the word of God in the Tabernacle
36
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Why is the Exodus story “revolutionary”

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Before Exodus, people believed God favored the wealthy. Exodus made it obvious that God favors the powerless nobodies

37
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What primordial mythical time do Jews relive during the Passover?

A

Exodus from Egypt/liberation from slavery in Egypt

38
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When the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his chariot drivers went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked through the sea on dry ground.

  1. Who is leading the Israelites in this story?
  2. In what book of the Bible is this story told?
A
  1. Moses

2. Exodus

39
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“You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal.”

TRUE OR FALSE: These commandments are part of the Jewish Torah

A

True

40
Q

On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, as well as a thick cloud on the mountain, and a blast of the trumpet so loud that all the people who were in the camp trembled.

  1. What is the name of “the mountain”
  2. What is the Hebrew word for “trumpet”
A
  1. Mt. Sinai

2. Shofar

41
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Hear O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your might….Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart…and write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

  1. What is the traditional Jewish name for this Bible verse?
  2. How do Jews comply with the commandment to ‘write [these words] on the doorposts’ of their houses?
A
  1. Shema

2. The put a Mezuzah on their doorposts

42
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Do not come near; put off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

  1. Who has to take his shoes off?
  2. What hierophany has gained the attention of this person?
A
  1. Moses

2. God calling out from the burning bush

43
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After these things, God tested ____ …He said to him, “Take your son, your only son ___ whom you love and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering….”
Q: What Hebrew name do Jews give the story that begins with these lines?

A

Abraham; Isaac

A: Akedah

44
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That the goodness of God may rule on earth as in heaven, the Angels of Destruction are assigned a place at the far end of the heavens, from which they may never stir, while the Angels of ____ encircle the Throne of God, at His behest.

A

Mercy

45
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Vertical Dimension

A

How to treat God

46
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What is one “vertical” law from the Decalogue (Ten Commandments)?

A

There is only one God

47
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Horizontal Dimension

A

How to treat one another

48
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What is one “horizonal” law from the Decalogue (Ten Commandments)?

A

Honor your father and mother

49
Q

“Twenty Englishmen were elected to the House of Burgesses. Twenty Africans were condemned to the house of bondage. Another chapter opened in the American book of Genesis: liberty and slavery became the American Abel and Cain.”

Q: What phrase comes from the biblical book of Exodus?

A

The House of Bondage

50
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What about the Passover story made the Passover celebration a tense time for the Romans in charge of Jerusalem?

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The Passover story tells of slaves overthrowing a great king. This story could encourage Jews to rebel against Rome in hopes that God would intervene again and punish Rome

51
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How did the Old Testament prophets explain misfortunes that occurred to the Jews?

A

The Jews had broken the covenant with God (sinned) and God was punishing them

52
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What new explanation (based on Apocalyptic belief) did Jews give for their suffering?

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An evil cosmic force (Satan) was temporarily in control of the world and causing their suffering.

53
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Who was John the Baptist?

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A Jewish prophet who preached apocalyptic ideology. He baptized Jews to purify them from sin before the end of the world. Baptized Jesus.

54
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What was odd about the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in the eyes of non-Jews?

A

There were no statues (it lacked meaning)

55
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What did Titus and Vespasian do in Jerusalem?

A

besieged and then captured Jerusalem. Titus oversaw the capture and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE

56
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Where is the Arch of Titus

A

Rome

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