Unit 1 and 2 Test

Question 1

3 Stages of Scriptural Development

Answer 1

Live, Oral, Written

Question 2

BCE, CE, AD

Answer 2

BCE = Before Common Era, CE = Common Era, AD = Anno Domini (Year of our Lord)

Question 3

Dead Sea Scrolls

Answer 3

Oldest copies of biblical books found in 1947 at Qumran.

Question 4

The Bible

Answer 4

A series/library of books inspired by God, divided into the Old Testament (39 books) and the New Testament (27 books).

Question 5

Biblical Codex

Answer 5

Manuscript in page form

Question 6

Canon of the Bible

Answer 6

List of books inspired by God

Question 7

Septuagint

Answer 7

Greek translation (70 scholars involved)

Question 8

Palestinian Edition

Answer 8

Without omitted parts (Apocrypha), followed by Protestants and Jews

Question 9

Literalists and Contextualists

Answer 9

Literalists: Means exactly what it says (ex. Creation story, Valley of Hinnom/Hell, Tel Megiddo/Armageddon)

Contextualists: Helps to show what the writer intended to teach

Question 10

4 senses of scripture

Answer 10

Spiritual: What is signified by words

Allegorical: What you should believe

Moral: What you should do

Anagogical: Mystical explanation of events

Question 11

Scopes Monkey Trial

Answer 11

In 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, the teaching of evolution was banned.

John Scopes, a biology teacher, taught evolution and Clarence Darrow defended him.

William Jennings Bryan was the lawyer for the state and former presidential candidate.

Question 12

Genesis

Answer 12

God creates the universe over a 6 day period.

Pattern: Intro, Command, Execution, Reaction, Conclusion

It is ideal for remembering, repeating, and entertaining.

Question 13

Sistine Chapel

Answer 13

Build in the Vatican. This is where the Papal Enclave (voting for Pope) occurs.

The ceiling is painted by Michelangelo and portrays the 9 scenes from Genesis.

Question 14

God creates humans

Answer 14

He says “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”.

God makes man into a living being from clay of the ground.

Question 15

Pentateuch/Book of Moses

Answer 15

First 5 books in the Bible

Question 16

First 5 books in the Bible

Answer 16

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Question 17

4 sources of the Pentateuch

Answer 17

Yahwist (1/J): God’s promises to the patriarchs

Elohist (2/E): Covenant with God

Deuteronomist (3/D): Morals and Law

Priestly (4/P): Census list, dates, ceremonies, (un)clean animals, genealogies

Question 18

Anthropomorphic

Answer 18

Human characteristics to inanimate objects or animals.

Question 19

Covenant

Answer 19

Contract

Question 20

Genealogies

Answer 20

Line of descendent/family tree.

Question 21

Creation

Answer 21

How God creates the world.

Question 22

De Creation

Answer 22

How sin destroys and how evil entered the world and defeats God.

Question 23

Re Creation

Answer 23

How God’s love saves us.

Question 24

4 Types of Alienation

Answer 24

Self: Loss of inner peace and harmony

God: Distance from God

Nature: Harmony is destroyed

People: Sin separates us

Question 25

Sin’s spawn

Answer 25

Prejudice, envy, division.

Question 26

Adam and Eve

Answer 26

First humans that were naked, but proud of it.

They were told not to eat the fruit by God, but the snake tells them the fruit is good food, pleasing to the eye, and gives them wisdom.

Adam: Man, Eve: Life

Question 27

Sin

Answer 27

Idea that humans are in control. (Rejecting/ opposing God, abuse of freedom, lack of trust, choosing to be like God)

Question 28

Consequence of the Fall

Answer 28

Nakedness was a disgrace, serpents crawl on their bellies, pain from birth, toiling for land and food.

Question 29

Cain and Abel

Answer 29

Adam and Eve’s children.

Cain: Tiller of soil, offered fruit from the ground

Abel: Keeper of flocks, offered its best cow.

Cain killed Abel and said “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

Question 30

Curse and Mark of Cain

Answer 30

Curse of Cain: Becoming fugitives/wanderers.

Mark of Cain: Protection so he can’t die.

Question 31

Crestfallen

Answer 31

Sad/disappointed

Question 32

God stops…?

Answer 32

Paganism: Worship of non-true religions

Idolatry: Worship of other gods/idols.

Polytheism: Worship of many gods.

Question 33

The Great Flood

Answer 33

God floods the earth and makes a covenant with Noah.

It rained for 40 days and God blesses Noah saying “Be fertile and multiply and fill the Earth”.

Question 34

Sign of God’s promise

Answer 34

Rainbow

Question 35

Noah

Answer 35

Married with 2 sons, gets creatures on the ark, and becomes humans’ new ancestors.

Question 36

Tower of Babel

Answer 36

Tower tall enough to reach heaven.

God punishes them by giving them different languages and scatters them across the world.

Question 37

Shinar

Answer 37

An ancient term for Babylon.

Question 38

Patriarchs

Answer 38

Male rulers (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)

Question 39

Matriarchs

Answer 39

Wives of Patriarchs (Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel)

Question 40

Abraham and Sarah

Answer 40

(Old name Abram meaning exalted father) Renamed meaning father of many

Married to Sarai, renamed Sarah meaning Princess.

Question 41

Cutting covenant with God

Answer 41

Parties walk between the halves of an animal.

Question 42

Abraham’s Covenant

Answer 42

Land, descendants, and blessing.

2 signs for Abraham:

New name in the Bible (new vocation)
Circumcision (Jewish tradition attributed to Abraham)

Question 43

Abraham in Canaan and Egypt

Answer 43

Abraham is called by God to travel to the Promised Land, ending up in Canaan.

God tests Abraham with famine, Egypt, etc.

Sarah is taken by the Pharaoh, is released, and believes she can’t have children.

Sarah lets Abraham and Hagar had a kid, Ishmael.

3 men visit Abraham at Oak of Mamre and say Sarah will have a son Isaac.

Question 44

Binding of Isaac

Answer 44

Test of human character. Abraham almost sacrifices Isaac but is stopped by an angel.

Reveals great trust, ongoing struggle, and periodic darkness.

Question 45

Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah

Answer 45

Abraham’s cousin who lives in Sodom (sinful place)

God condemned the cities and Abraham pleaded to God.

Sodom men go to Lot’s house and want to have sex with his 2 guests, offering his virgin daughters instead.

The guests say that angels will destroy Sodom. Angels get Lot, wife, and daughters out because he lingered.

Lot’s wife looks back, becoming a pillar of salt.

Question 46

Jacob

Answer 46

Abraham’s first son Isaac marries Rebekah and has twins, Esau (Isaac’s fav) and Jacob (Rebekah’s fav)

Rebekah tells Jacob to deceive his father and take birthright (double inheritance).

Esau sells it for stew after he was exhausted.

Isaac tells Esau for the birthright ritual to kill an animal and prepare a meal.

Jacob poses as Esau and steals the birthright, becoming a patriarch.

Question 47

Laban and Jacob

Answer 47

Jacob flees to avoid revenge and Laban lets Jacob stay.

Jacob loves Rachel (Laban’s younger daughter), so he works for her for 7 years.

After 7 years, Laban instead gives Leah (older daughter) to Jacob.

Question 48

Jacob’s Ladder

Answer 48

Jacob dreamed of a stairway reaching heaven.

Question 49

Jacob becomes Israel

Answer 49

Jacob wrestled an angel all night, becoming Israel, meaning one that struggled with a divine angel.

Jacob returns to Canaan and marries Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilah and has 12 sons and 1 daughter.

12 sons become the tribes of Israel/Israelites

Question 50

Joseph

Answer 50

Joseph was Jacob’s favourite (Rachel’s first son) because he snitches on his brothers.

Joseph has the multicolour coat and dreamed that his brothers would one day bow to him.

His brothers sold him as a slave to the Ishmaelites and Potiphar buys him.

Potiphar’s wife is attracted to Joseph, causing him to be jailed.

Question 51

Joseph’s dreams

Answer 51

1: 7 weak cows eat 7 strong cows.
2: 7 poor ears of grain swallow 7 healthy ears of grain.

Question 52

Potiphar

Answer 52

Officer of Egyptian King