Test 1 Significance Flashcards
(38 cards)
Homeostatic nature of oral cultures
- Get rid of info that isn’t important anymore
- geneology changes to reflect society
- past interpreted in light of the present
- gilgamesh ?
agonistic quality of oral poetry
- boasting and insults common
- challenges before combat
- confrontation between Agamemnon and Achilles
- action frequently violent and gory
geography of the Tigris -Euphrates valley
- Where gilgamesh was made
- surrounded by mountains and desert
- inhabitants at the mercy of nature
- few natural resources except water, soil, and clay, trade essential
the harlot in Gilgamesh
- temple prostitute and seducer of Enkidu
- sex and knowledge makes him man
- links him to religion
- makes him physically weaker and less hairy
- takes him to shepherds to give him clothes, food, and drink
Utnapishtim and Noah
- Two different creation stories
- Noah is chosen by god b/c he is righteous, God wanted to wipe out evil
- Ut is randomly chosen, God’s were bothered by the noise humans made
early Hebrew society
Descendants of Abel
Documentary hypothesis
-How and when the Torah was put together
-combination of several sources
E=text from the north
J=text from Judah
P=priestly from Jerusalem
D=Deuteronomist from priests of Shiloh
-ex. is the two accounts of the creation
Compilation of the Old Testament
- To preserve all traditions and restore the religion of the Hebrews
- to restore temple or produce a text that replaces the temple
- to centralize worship in the hands of the Temple priests of Jerusalem
Babylonian exile
-exile of Hebrews, which led them to compile the old testament
polytheism
-belief in multiple gods as shown by the greek gods and gods in Gilgamesh
six days of creation
-six days to create the universe and then rest on the seventh day
the expulsion from Eden
- were Adam and Eve have awareness?
- was the fall when they ate the apple
- apple really make them more like gods if things are harder?
orality vs. literacy
- uses phrases instead of words “horse breaker Hector”
- redundant
- oral poet was a historian, entertainer, preserver of values,
- everything is related to human life “catalogue of ships”
- situational rather than abstract
role of language in Gen1-11
- language is power/ godlike
- adam names all the creatures
chaos waters
- part of the Sumerian and Greek theology creation stories
- out of chaos, structure and order emerges
covenant
- God’s promise to Abraham to give him land and give him an everlasting family
- Issac is the embodiment of the covenant
the rainbow
-God’s promise to not create another flood that will destroy everything
Tower of Babel
- humans trying to be like God
- Separates their languages
- people are pushing past their limits
sacrifice of Issac
- devotion and loyalty to god
- sacrificed issac in head and heart
- must be able to give up the promise to keep it
trickery in Genesis
- allows the promise to go to the youngest son
- esau and jacob
- joseph and his brothers
Jacob’s ladder
“stairway to heaven”
- connection to the heavens
- god’s way of communicating with jacob
Jacob renamed Israel
- renamed after wrestling with god
- “He who prevails with God”
the younger son in the OT
- Shows that God doesn’t conform to human culture
- preference went to jacob and joseph
Joseph and his brothers
- Joseph’s brothers try to kill him
- ends up a slave and then the most powerful man in Egypt
- evil was intended but God intended it for good
