Quiz 2 - Part1 Flashcards
A Cannaanite-Phoenician term meaning “lord” or “master” the name applied Canaan’s most popular fertility god. He is also pictured as god of storm and rainfall.
Baal
the compilation of Sumero-Babylonian laws inscribed on the basaltic stele of Hammurabi
Code of Hammurabi
a theory or tradition about the origin or birth of the universe
Cosmogony
A theory describing the natural order or structure of the universe
Cosmology
a wedge-shaped system of writing that originated in ancient Sumer circa 3000 BCE and spread throughout Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
A scholarly theory associated with Julius Wllhausen that argues that the Pentateuch is not the work of one author, but the result of many generations of anonymous writers
Documentary hypothesis
in Canaan was the high God, father of lesser deities
El
The scholarly term designating the anonymous scribe or compiler responsible for the E document in the pentateuch
Elohist
The arch of fertile territory stretching from the Persian Gulf on the northeast to Egypt on the southwest and including Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine
Fertile Crescent
The legendary king of Uruk
Gilgamesh
The 6th king of Babylon’s 1st Dynasty and founder of the 1st Amorite Empire in Mesopotamia
Hammurabi
it means “YHWH heals “The son of Amon, became king of Judah after his father’s murder
Josiah
an upright slab or pillar inscribed with a commemorative message such as that bearing the code of Hammurabi
Stele
Flat-topped artificial mounds consisting of the ruins of ancient cities that dot the landscape of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine
Tel
Ancient Canaanite city where cuneiform archives were found that preserve prebiblical religious text and myths about El and Baal
Ugarit (Ras Shamra)
