Test One Flashcards
Primeval History
Creation (2 stories)
Atrahasis - babylonian story (creation and flood–human created with clay and blood of a god)
Enuma Elish – separatiom leads to order
Genesis 3 = serpent, punishment
Cain and Abel
Tower of Babel (origin of languages)
Patriarchal History
Gunkel says Genesis is folklore not history
God promises Abraham lets of decedents
Exodus
God talks to Moses – tells him to call him YHWH
Plagues
read sea– two account, 1-sea splits, 2-sea ebbs away
revelation at the mountain of Sinai
-most likey god, moses, pharroh
Sinai Material
Revelation to Moses
Covenant – why should Israelites obey god, laws & stipulations
Decalogue (do not…/do…) & Covenant code (if…,then…)
-most likely god or moses
Deuteronomy
second law
kind of repetitive
fifth book
last moses speech
2-way covenant relationship w god and israelites
stipulations for living in the holy land
- most likely moses
Leviticus
- aaron and 2 sons are high priest
- god speaking to moses aboutthigs to tell israelites
- ritual, legal, and moral practices
-most likely god or moses
Genesis 1
God creates by speaking
Creation id orderly
Separation leads to order
Seven days – God rests on the 7th
Genesis 2
God makes things out of the the dust of the earth
Creates woman out of rib of man
Numbers
- after israelites have recieved laws from god
- now need to take ahold of the promised land
- some rebelion against moses
complaining about the task at hand - ends w new generation
Etiology
story that explains the cause of something
Mekilta de Rabbi Ishmael
- ## rules
Wellhausen
- ## contributed to composition history of pentatuch
W. M. L. de Wette
- assumes the pentatuch has mutliple authors (none of which were moses)
- ## deuteronomy still different author (even though moses first person)
Gezer Calendar
- revolves around planting/harvesting
- 2 months for ingathering, 2 months for sowing, 2 months for planting, etc.
Four Room House
- dedicated to agrarian needs
- sleeping upstairs
- downstairs : storage, animals, and then either food prep, metallurgy, textile production, etc.