Unit I Test Flashcards
What does God command Abraham to do on a mountain in Moriah?
Kill his son Isaac
One who gives his name to a people, place, or institution is called a(n):
Eponym
The patriarchs and matriarchs together are known as the:
Ancestors
A legendary narrative about a community figure is called a(n):
Saga
An oath-bound relationship with defined expectations and obligations is called:
Covenant
An appearance of God is called a(n):
Theophany
Who is the mother of Abraham’s firstborn?
Hagar
Who wrestles for a blessing?
Jacob
Who is the main character of Gen 37-50 and ends up in a position of power in Egypt?
Joseph
Who sells his birthright and is tricked out of his father’s blessing?
Esau
Genesis chapters 6 & 7 contain a story of a::
Flood
A Mesopotamian story that has themes similar to those found in Genesis is:
Gilgamesh Epic
A “stepped, pyramid-shaped structure that typically had a temple at the top” was called a:
Ziggurat
The Documentary Hypothesis resulted from:
Source Analysis
Shem, Ham, and Japheth are sons of:
Noah
Who got drunk?
Noah
Who was cursed?
Canaan
Genesis chapter 11 tells the story of the Tower of __________.
Babel
Two sources found in the Primeval story?
Yahwist and Priestly
Bandstra says that structural unity in the Primeval Story is provided by the _____ headings.
Toledot
Who killed Abel?
Cain
What is the Hebrew word that Bandstra says can be translated as “generations” “story” “history” or “developments”?
Toledot
Does Genesis 1:1-2:4a contain the Priestly “Elohim” creation story or the Yahwist “YHWH Elohim” creation story?
Priestly “Elohim”
In Genesis chapter 1, God says, “Let us make humanity….”Bandstra says that the “us” here probably refers to
Divine Council
According to an important Babylonian creation account, two oceans formed the world. One was named Apsu. What was the other one named?
Tiamat
Who lived longer than any other person in the Bible (according to the biblical account, 969 years)?
Methuselah
Which word means “ground” or “earth”?
Adamah
A picture or conception of the universe is called a:
cosmology
After Adam and Eve are disobedient to God, they are expelled from:
The Garden of Eden
In Genesis 1, God creates an inhabitable world out of the water of ______.
chaos
The hypothesis that there are four main traditions or sources in the Torah is known as the:
Documentary Hypothesis
The Torah contains how many books?
Five
The Hebrew Bible contains how many main parts?
Three
Which books are in the Tetrateuch?
Four - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
Most scholars today _____ accept Mosiac authorship of the Torah?
do not
“Elohim” is translated as:
God
The Torah, according to Bandstra, was formed roughly when?
400 BCE
In biblical studies “J” stands for which narrative source?
Yahwist
Bandstra says that describing the deity as having human characteristics is known as:
anthropormorphism
Of the four main traditions contained in the Torah, which do scholars believe is the oldest source?
(J) Yahwist
What is another commonly used word to refer to the books of Torah?
Pentateuch
