Test 1 Flashcards
True or false: historical critical methodologies provide interpretations
false
true or false: there can only be one valid interpretation
false
true or false: meaning lies within and in front o the text
true
true or false: old man warner wants to change the tradition
false
true or false: tess says “i almost forgot what day it was”
false
true or false: the tree of eternal life is forbidden from man and woman
false- tree of the knowledge of good and evil
true or false: buck passing refers to adam and eves awareness of being naked
false
true or false: the days are counted in genesis 1
true
true or false: the black box represents the lottery
true
true or false: eve adds “nor shall you touch it” when she was referring to forbidden fruit
false- she was referring to the tree not the fruit
true or false: genesis 2 refers to gen 2:4-2:25
true
true or false: the order of creation in gen 2 for day six is man, animals, woman
true
true or false: ezer neged means corresponding opposite
true
true or false: adam is given the moral capacity to decide between right and wrong
true
true or false: god created the tree of good and evil to tempt humans
false- he gave humans free will
true or false: eve was alone when she picked the fruit
false- she was with adam
true or false: one of the consequences for eve is pain in child bearing
false- its increased pain
true or false: animals were created from earth in gen 2
true
true or false: gen 1 and 2 are about creation
false- its about who god is
true or false: god names the animals in gen 2
false- adam names the animals
true or false: god is gen 2 is imminent
true
true or false: all humanity continuously thought evil things
false- noah
true or false: there is one flood account
false- there are 2
true or false: if a human is unclean and goes to the tabernacle they risk the wrath of god being put upon them
true
true or false: the reason for bringing the animals on the ark was for procreation and food
false: its to preserve animals
true or false: uthapishtim wants to destroy the noisy humans in the gilgamesh epic
false: enlil brings about the flood killing everything
true or false: noah sends a dove out of the ark first
false- sends a raven
true or false: god only establishes a covenant with noah
false: he does the same with abraham and others
true or false: ham and japheth cover up noah
false- shem and japheth
true or false: the israelites are living in the promised land when the canaanites arrive
true
true or false: canaanites practice fertility rites and worship one god
false- they worship multiple gods
true or false: shinar translated means babylon
true
true or false: the purpose of genealogies is to chronologically list family trees and it has a unifying effect
false- not chronological
true or false: god delivers jacobs people from babylon in 1290
false- exodus happens in 1290
true or false: the phrase be fruitful and multiply is found in only gen 1 and 9
false- its in gen 2
true or false: god is there for abraham even when he lacks in faith
true
true or false: pharaoh looks more honorable than abraham in egypt
true
true or false: king melchizedek blesses abraham
true
true or false: abraham goes into a deep sleep where he learns about the future of his descendants
true
true or false: hagar has an encounter with an angel
true
true or false: abraham believes ishmael is the son god promised
true- even though the son god intended was isaac
true or false: abraham was 85 when he left his home with sarah and lot
false- he was 75
true or false: abram translated is father of a multitude
false- means exalted father
true or false: abraham was hospitable to three strangers
true
true or false: sarai translated is mother of a multitude
false- sarah means princess
true or false: he laughs or isaac refers to abraham laughing
true
true or false: election is a form of hope that only comes with privileges
false- also comes with responsibility
true or false: they shall be oppressed for 400 years refers to the israelites being in canaan
false
true or false: abraham has communicated with god prior to the war against the coalition of kings
true
true or false: lot is abrahams nephew
true
true or false: god told sarah she would bear a son and she laughed in gods face
false- she laughed but not in gods face
true or false: every man in sodom surrounded lots house when he had guests
true
true or false: lot is righteous because god saved him from the destruction of sodom
false- because he remembered abraham
true or false: the moabites and ammonites are neighbors and friends of the israelites
false- they were product of incest, loners
true or false: text condemns abraham for closing the wombs of women in abimeleks household
caused by abrahams wife sarah
true or false: shem sees noahs nakedness
false- ham sees him
true or false: with condemnation comes sadness
false- grace
true or false: with privilege comes only blessing
false
true or false: god of the old testament is harsh and unloving
false- he gives grace and is merciful
true or false: cherubins are half horse half man
false- they are half man half beast
true or false: god gradually lengthened lives
false- he shortened them
true or false: gods feelings of anger, sadness, and joy are examples of anthropopathic language
true
true or false: adam walked with god
false- enoch walked with god
true or false: enoch is the oldest man in the bible
false- methuselah is the oldest
true or false: the abraham cycle is symmetric
false- jacob cycle
true or false: juxtaposition is placing side by side
true
true or false: ishmaels genealogy is juxtaposed with the birth of jacob and esau to show the contrast between chosen and unchosen
true
true or false: the genealogies of the chosen envelope the story of the unchosen
false- stories of unchosen envelope the chosen
true or false: central position in the jacob cycle is the birth of jacob
false- birth of joseph
true or false: hesed is a story that explains why something is the way it is
false- its an etiology