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the brother of Moses; Israel’s first high priest

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Aaron

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king of Gerar; deceived by Abraham and Isaac about their respective wives, Sarai and Rebekah

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Abimelech

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the second son of Adam and Eve; he was murdered by his brother Cain

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Abel

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the first father (patriarch) of Israel; first called Abram, God made a covenant with him in which God promised to make him a great nation; Isaac was his son by Sarah, and Ishmael was his son by Hagar

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Abraham

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the first male who God created; he and his mate, Eve, disobeyed God and were expelled from the garden of Eden; he was created out of the ground (adamah in Hebrew)

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Adam

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Rachel’s maid; she bore Jacob two sons: Dan and Naphtali

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Bilhah

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the twelfth son of Jacob; the younger brother of Joseph; Rachel was his mother; he was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin

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Benjamin

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the first son of Adam and Eve; he murdered his brother Abel

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Cain

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one of Joseph’s two sons; he became the ancestor of one of the tribes of Israel; the name was often used as a designation of the ten northern tribes after the division of the kingdoms

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Ephraim

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the first son of Isaac and Rebekah; the twin of Jacob; he was the ancestor of the Edomites; he sold his birthright to his brother for lentil stew

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Esau

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the first female who God created; mated to Adam, her name means “life”

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Eve

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the servant of Sarah and one of Abraham’s wives; the mother of Ishmael, who was driven away from the family by Sarah

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Hagar

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derived from Egyptian for “rulers of foreign countries,” these Semitic rulers of Egypt from 1750-1550 BCE were probably the people in control of Egypt during the sojourn of Joseph and Jacob’s descendants

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Hyksos

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the son of Abraham and Sarah who inherited the ancestral promises; he married Rebekah and was the father of Esau and Jacob

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Isaac

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the son of Abraham and Hagar; he was not the son of the promise; he and his mother were expelled by Sarah and Abraham

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Ishmael

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the second son of Isaac and Rebekah; he was the twin brother of Esau; his name was changed to Israel after he wrestled with God at the Jabbok River; he became the recipient of the ancestral promises and his twelve sons became the ancestors of the tribes of Israel

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Jacob

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father of Zippporah and father-in-law of Moses; also called Reuel

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Jethro

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son of Jacob by Rachel; brother of Benjamin; he was sold into slavery by his brothers and became a high official within the Egyptian government; his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, became tribes within Israel

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Joseph

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Moses’s aide during the wilderness sojourn; after the death of Moses, he led the Hebrews into the Promised Land

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Joshua

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(640-609) King of Judah who reformed Judean religion and died in battle at Megiddo

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Josiah

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Jacob’s fourth son, he was the ancestor of the tribe of Judah; became the name of the southern kingdom after the northern ten tribes separated from Judah and Benjamin; seduced by his daughter-in-law Tamar

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Judah

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Rebekah’s brother and Jacob’s uncle who lived in Aram; Jacob became wealthy there and married his daughters, Rachel and Leah

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Laban

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23
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the nephew of Abraham who accompanied him to Canaan; settled in Sodom and Gomorrah

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Lot

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Joseph’s firstborn son; Jacob chooses to bless his brother Ephraim instead of him

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Manasseh

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king of Salem; blessed Abraham in the name of “El Elyon, Creator of heaven and earth” after he defeated the enemies of Sodom and Gomorrah and rescued Lot

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Melchizedek

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26
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the sister of Moses and Aaron; she led the Israelites in worship after the crossing of the Reed Sea

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Miriam

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the leader of the Hebrews at the time of the Exodus from Egypt (thirteenth century BCE); he led the people of Israel out of Egyptian bondage, God revealed to Torah to him on Mount Sinai; described as the first Hebrew prophet

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Moses

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built a boat and survived the Flood with his family and representatives of the animal world; God made a covenant with him, promising never again to destroy the world with a flood

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Noah

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29
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Egyptian term for “great house” that became the title for a king of Egypt; it is not a king’s name

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Pharaoh

30
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the Egyptian administrator in Genesis who purchased Joseph to be his slave

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Potiphar

31
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the daughter of Laban, most loved wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin

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Rachel

32
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king of Egypt at the time of the Hebrews’ Exodus (thirteenth century BCE)

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Ramses II

33
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the sister of Laban, Isaac’s wife, mother of Esau and Jacob

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Rebekah

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the wife of Abraham; called Sarai before Genesis 17; she was barren until God enabled conception, and Isaac was born in her old age

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Sarah

35
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the daughter-in-law of Judah; the daughter of David

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Tamar

36
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Leah’s maid who bore Jacob two sons: Gad and Asher

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Zilpah

37
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“binding of Isaac;” the Pentateuchal narrative describing God’s command to Abraham to offer Isaac, the son of his old age, as a sacrifice

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Akedah

38
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a term for the attribution of human behavior or characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, natural phenomena, or deity

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anthropomorphism

39
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it is law stated in an unconditional manner without qualifying clauses

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apodictic law

40
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the territory north and east of Palestine where Abraham’s ancestors had settled and from where the wives of Isaac and Jacob came; roughly the region of modern northern Syria and northwestern Iraq

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Aram

41
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an evil spirit of the wilderness to which a scapegoat was sent by the ancient Hebrews in a ritual of atonement

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Azazel

42
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the name of a Mesopotamian city with a tower as told in Genesis 11; the name means “gate of God”

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Babel

43
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a city that became a center of Israelite worship; literally means “house of El”

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Bethel

44
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the special inheritance rights of the firstborn son that gave him claim to the bulk of the ancestral property

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birthright

45
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legal sayings with modifying clauses often in the “if…then” form: “if this is the situation, …then this is the penalty”

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casuistic law

46
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the cave which Abraham bought, together with the field in which it stood, from Ephron the Hittite, for a family burying-place; here were laid the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Leah

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cave of Machpelah

47
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a fissure/opening in the rock where God reveals His glory to Moses, but Moses doesn’t see God’s face

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cleft of the rock

48
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Exodus 20:22-23:33; a collection of Israelite laws

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covenant

49
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Greek for “ten words;” refers to laws collected into a group of ten; the Ten Commandments received by Moses on Mount Sinai

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Decalogue

50
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the body of material that consists of the introduction to Deuteronomy and Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings; an extended review of Israel’s history from the conquest under Joshua through the destruction of 587 BCE written from the perspective of principles found in the book of Deuteronomy

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Deuteronomic history

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a Babylonian epic centering on Gilgamesh, an ancient king of Uruk; the eleventh tablet of this epic contains a story of a flood that has parallels to the biblical story of Noah and the ark

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Gilgamesh Epic

52
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“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength”

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the Great Commandment

53
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a statue constructed by Aaron at Mount Sinai that the Israelites worshipped

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golden calf

54
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the territory in the eastern Nile delta of Egypt where Joseph settled the family of Jacob

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Goshen

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the term used in the Elohist and Deuteronomist sources to designate the location where God delivered the commandments and covenant to the Israelites through Moses; apparently the equivalent of Mount Sinai

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Horeb

56
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site where Jacob wrestled with God before being reunited with Esau; place where his name is changed to Israel

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Jabbok

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(Hebrew=kashrut) refers to ritually correct Jewish dietary practices; traditional Jewish dietary laws are based on biblical legislation; only land animals that chew the cud and have split hooves are permitted and must be slaughtered in a special way; further, meat products may not be eaten with milk products or immediately thereafter; of sea creatures, only those having fins and scaled are permitted; fowl is considered a meat food and also has to be slaughtered in a special manner

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Kosher

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a biblical system of marriage in which the levir marries his brother’s widow

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levirate law

59
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Hebrew for “what is it?”; the food that God provided to the Hebrews while they sojourned in the wilderness for forty years

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Manna

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Greek for “between the rivers”; the land defined by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, this is the location of the birth of civilization and the origin of the Israelites

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Mesopotamia

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territory south of Canaan, of uncertain exact location; perhaps in the Sinai Peninsula or western Arabia; Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, was a priest of this place

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Midian

62
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the desert region south of Canaan and east of Egypt

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Sinai

63
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the festival recalling the escape from Egypt in the Exodus

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Passover (Pesach)

64
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the father and ruler of a family; the head of a tribe

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patriarch

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aka a sojourner, a person who lives in a country but does not hold citizenship; the Old Testament specifies certain rights for resident aliens

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resident alien

66
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the seventh day of the week, a day of rest and worship; it extends from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday; the sign of the Mosaic covenant and became especially important as an identifier of Jewishness beginning in the Babylonian exile

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Sabbath

67
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title of the Great Commandment, the fundamental, monotheistic statement of Judaism, found in Deuteronomy 6:4 (“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One”); affirms the unity of God and is recited daily in the liturgy and customarily before sleep at night

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Shema

68
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the portable tent shrine constructed at Mount Sinai that served as the residence of YHWH in the wilderness and until the time of Solomon

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tabernacle

69
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Greek for “appearance of God”; a manifestation or appearance of the divine–for example, when God appears to Moses in a burning bush

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theophany

70
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an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian city on the Euphrates River in southern Mesopotamia; the home of Abraham before he left for Canaan

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Ur

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Hebrew for “Day of Atonement”; annual day of fasting, penitence, and atonement, occurring in the fall on the tenth day of the month Tishri; the most solemn and important occasion of the Jewish religious year

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Yom Kippur

72
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divination dice that allowed the high priest to consult with God directly

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Urim and Thummin

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