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.
Stepstone Structure
- support for a citadel
- fortification
- water system
Adam
- ## first human
Atrahasis
- human formed from clay and flesh of a god (sim to gen 2)
- humanity too populous -> flood (sim to gen 6)
- population control - barness, child mortality, celibacy
Gilgamesh
- what it means to be human
- reality of death
- futile ways to escape death
Ut-napishtim
- survived arthrasis flood by building a boat
Marduk
- slays tiamat to create the earth
- king of gods
- enuma elish
Tiamat
- god whose body was used to create the world in enuma elish
Etiology
- story that explains the cause of something
- gen 3 explains why childbirth is so painful and why there is a patriarchy
Impurity
Abraham + Sarah, Isaac +
Rebecca, Jacob + Rachel, Leah,
Zilpah, and Bilhah
Joseph
- 12 sons
J, E, P, and D
Moses
- raised by egyptians
- runs away after killing an eqyptian
burning bush - god tells him to call him YHWH - leads the people our of israel
- 10 commandments
red sea
Sinai/Horeb
- 10 commandements
- there forever - they bulid golden calf
- god gets angry
10 Plagues (don’t list them,
discuss what they are and their
significance to the Hebrew Bible)
- ## helped the jewish people escape from Egypt
Casuistic/Apodictic Law
- ## if…, then…
Debt Slavery
- fellow hebrews
- max 6 years
- used to pay off debts
Decalogue
- ten commandments
- ## apioditic law (do not…)
Covenant Code
- ritual rules
- god to moses at mt sinai
- causitic
covers more ground
Covenant
- an agreement
- many covenants between god and fore fathers
- covenat between god and israelites - follow him
Loyalty Oath
- sworn agreement to obey
- writtn on clay tablets
- swear to follow succesion rules
Centralization of the Cult
- only sacrifice animals at the temple
- if you sacrifice something not at the Temple, then not a sacrifice
- passover festival becomes pilgramage to that site
