the old testement world Flashcards
1
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fertile crescent
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the old testement world,
2
Q
mesopotania
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in the midst of the rivers,
3
Q
enuma eliah
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earth is shaped from the defeated body of the godess tiamat,
4
Q
epic of gilgamesh
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flood stor,
warming of flood,
builds a boat and gathers animals
5
Q
semites
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were akkadians, the group of people the hebrews belonged,
6
Q
canaan
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syria-palestine
important texts discovered there
7
Q
holy land
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jordan river between the sea og galile and and dead sea
this area is the holy land
8
Q
primeval history
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makes up genesis 1-11
ancestor narratives about abraham
9
Q
Etiology
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the explanation of a current reality by narrating its origins
10
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