Test 3 - Concepts Flashcards
‘almanah
widow who doesn’t have any male relatives in her new married family to provide for her (husband, son, brother in law, father in law)
“house of the removed sandal”
insult to someone who refuses to follow the levirate law
“ruling queen”
a woman who rules without the man being involved; Queen of Sheba; Athaliah (Queen of Judah)
“spread out one’s wing(s)”
Ruth asks Boaz to “spread…”
can mean to protect you or to place your rope over
“uncover a man’s feet”
to reveal the place where his feet are
bridewealth
what the grooms family gives the brides family in the marriage
dowry
what the brides family gives for the wedding, or the grooms family, when she’s married
endogamy
marry inside the clan/keep the land in the clan
if it is sold outside of the clan/family, the redeemer must buy it back
genealogy
Boaz was not supposed to be listed as the father of Obed but rather Makhlon as a way to preserve his name
gerim
away from any family or protective group; have no male support in their family; (Ruth)
gleaning
widow were allowed to follow behind the harvesters and pick up what they left behind in order to survive
House of Omri
how Mesopotamians referred to the northern Israel
inalienable land
land that cannot go outside of the family; Naboth says that God forbade him from selling the land which he inherited from his father
levirate law
it was the duty of the brother-in-law to marry his brother’s sister in order to produce an offspring that will carry on his late brother’s name and to keep all of his brother’s possessions (land, ect) in the family
masculine traits
warrior; potent
megillot
“scrolls”
5 books in the Hebrew Bible that are read on certain holidays
Ruth: feast of weeks (end of barley harvest, beginning of wheat harvest)
Naboth’s vineyard
located next to King Ahab’s castle; Ahab wants to buy the vineyard so he can build a garden in exchange for money or for another vineyard; When Naboth tells him no, Jezebel has Naboth stoned so that Ahab can have the vineyard
parallelism
Saying the same thing using different wording
Ruth says “Yahweh has judges me, Shadday has made things bitter for me”
Pelony Almony
“Mr.so-and-so”
closest kinsman to Naomi
the man who refused to take care of Ruth
his actual name is not stated because he is a disgrace to his family and he removes his own sandal
redeemer
redeem: to buy back
job was to by back land or people if it went outside of the family, take care of family members who had no one else to care for them, and to kill the one who kills his family member
son preference
take care of ancestor rights; help in the field; takes care of parents in their old age; daughters are married off at a young age and are no longer a part of their birth family
taxes and Solomon
the source of Solomon’s wealth was taxing the spice trade; breaks up Israel into 12 taxation districts
the gate of a city
where the elders were and where important meetings/business took place
threshing grain
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threshing sledge
flat piece of wood that separates the grain from what has been cut;
attached to oxen and children sit on it to thresh the grain
to preserve a dead man’s name
after a woman’s husband dies, she bares a son with someone else and he will be considered the son of her first husband in order to preserve his name;
Ruth and Boaz’s son should have been in the genealogy of Makhlon
trade between Arabia and Judah
spice trade; is significant because the Queen of Sheba bring spices to Solomon
winnow grain
after you’ve threshed the grain, you throw it in the air and the chaff if blow away by the wind while the grain falls back down
