The Mosaic Law Flashcards
What can the word “law” refer to?
- the entire Old Testament
- the entire Pentateuch
- any specific divine command
- all the specific laws within the Mosaic Covenant (613) 5. The entire Mosaic Covenant
What is (are) the name(s) of the covenant established between God and Israel at Mt. Sinai? Its type? Its nature?
Mosaic (Sinai) Covenant: conditional: included blessings for obedience, curses for disobedience
How was it similar to and different from other ancient law codes?
Similar in “case” and “casuistic” law as well as in term and form. Different established and maintained relationship between God and Israel, apodictic law: terms: things are necessarily true/form: more you shall not than you shalls’s
What kind of ancient treaty is this modeled after? What are the various parts of the form of this kind of treaty?
Suzarianty treaties: preamble, historical prologue, stipulations, list of witnesses, curses and blessings.
What were the purposes of the Law (both positively and negatively/OT and NT)?
Positively: the Law instructs about the nature of God, moral standards, means of forgiveness of sins, the right way to worship, knowledge of sin, sinfulness of sin, need for salvation. Negatively: never was meant for salvation.
What are the Ten Commandments (specifically)?
I. You shall have no other God’s before me.
II. You shall not make or worship an idol.
III. You shall not take the name of God in vain.
IV. Remember the sabbath, to keep it holy.
V. Honor your father and mother.
VI. Do not murder.
VII. Do not commit adultery.
VIII. Do not steal.
IX. Do not bear false witness.
X. Do not covet.
What are the three broad categories in the Law and the characteristics of each?
Moral: 10 commandments primarily .
Civil: relationships between people and things. Ceremonial: laws for religious rituals
What three points were presented to help us understand the “strange” laws?
- address disease, hygiene, and good health. 2. understood in the context of pagan Canannite religious practices. 3. laws symbolic of holiness and unholiness.
What are the holy days or feasts mentioned in the Law?
From the chart, know the name of the feast, which were pilgrimage feasts, in which season they occur,
and the meaning/purpose and significance of each.
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Which additional feast were added later?
Purim and Hanukkah
What is the significance of “seven” in the Hebrew calendar? How was it worked out through the years?
What was the point?
Central structure of Israels’s holy days. Sabbatical years, years for the and people to rest.
What were the differences between pagan sacrifices and the sacrifices God told his people to bring in the Law?
They were part of a covenant with God. Had connections between sacrifices and the concept of holiness.
What two things did the sacrifices provide for Israel?
- a means to express loyalty
2. atonement for sins.
What three thing were to characterize these sacrifices?
- be of one’s possessions.
- amount to be a genuine sacrifice of one’s possessions.
- to be offered in genuine faith.
What are the five major Levitical sacrifices?
From the chart, know their names, their purposes (including which were mandatory, which were voluntary, which required restitution), God’s part, the priest’s part and the offerer’s part (including the significance of each).
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