Reading Quiz 2

Question 1

The Tower of Babel

Answer 1

• Explanation for linguistic diversity
• Gen 11:1-9
• Because we don’t speak the same language, we cannot overstep boundaries
• Cursed humans because they moved and built a tower to Heaven

Question 2

Central Themes of Patriarchs/ Ancestral History

Answer 2

• Land of your own
• Descendants
• Privileged status (distinctive relationship w/ deity)

Question 3

Joseph Novella

Answer 3

• Own short story, redacted into Genesis

- Reuben or Judah heroes

Question 4

Lawrence Wills

Answer 4

• Jews in the Court of the Foreign King- Ancient Jewish Court Legends
• All Jewish Heroes follow basic model of Joseph

Question 5

Common Elements of Hero Typology

Answer 5

• Have God’s presence (successful/ prosperous)
• Good looking
• Physical adversity or trial
• Divine gift

Question 6

Merneptah Stele

Answer 6

-Merneptah stele- tablet 13th century, In land of Canaan, Israelites had taken it over

Question 7

Legend of Sargon the Great

Answer 7

-ANE parallel of Moses and Exodus

Question 8

Israelites compared to..

Answer 8

Military group Hysksos

Question 9

Frank Moore Cross

Answer 9

• Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic
• Descriptions of Ba’al and El reflect descriptions of Yahweh
• Ba’al=Canaanite Marduk, hero, brings life, storm god, god of war
• El= father god, chief

Question 10

Ten Commandments/Decalogue

Answer 10

• Apodictic law- Simple prohibitions

- Sabbath= day of rest, thing we guard and celebrate most

Question 11

Covenant Code

Answer 11

• Casuistic law- If, then

- Connection to laws of Eshaunna and Hammurabi Code

Question 12

Eye for an eye

Answer 12

Talio punishment- punishment proportional to crime

Question 13

Rolf Rendtorft

Answer 13

• The problem of the process of transmission of the Pentateuch
• Rejects Wellhausen
• Penta= series of traditions, collections of stories gathered around themes
• Dominant in Europe

Question 14

“Elohim Acherim”

Answer 14

• other foreign gods

- God is a jealous god, wants to protect us

Question 15

Martin Noth

Answer 15

• Deuteronomistic History
• Deuteronomy+ Former Prophets (Joshua, Judges, Kings, Samuel)= DH
• Common themes (love, foreign gods)
• Syntax (word order is particular)
• locutions (word choice is narrow)

Question 16

Theophany

Answer 16

• A visible manifestation of God to humankind

- Ex: burning bush Moses

Question 17

Holiness Code

Answer 17

• Leviticus 17-26
• Attonement, Scapegoats
• “Covenant Curses”
  1. Experiences listed mirror experiences of exile–> deportation
  2. Written at time of exile, not Mt. Sinai

Question 18

Tebah

Answer 18

• Ark= used in creation story priestly and birth of Moses

- P source

Question 19

Hyperbole

Answer 19

• Exaggeration

- Seen during the Exodus “entire, whole, all”

Question 20

Recognition Formula

Answer 20

• Found in the Priestly Plague of Exodus

- “They shall know that I am God”

Question 21

Mt. Sinai and Mt. Horeb

Answer 21

• Presentation of the 10 commandments
• Horeb= wilderness
• Exo 19 to Deut 34 location

Question 22

Slaughter of Innocents

Answer 22

• Matthew
• Herod orders all male children to be slaughtered
• Comparable to how all male children are ordered to be killed by Pharoah
• Exo 1:15-22

Question 23

Levi

Answer 23

• Father of all priests in Israel (Tribe of Levi)

- If Levi/Levites are mentioned, P source