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Hebrew Scripture
terms and major concepts of the Hebrew Scriptures
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the meaning of the term covenant? | A covenant is a sacred agreement between God and His people. |
| Myth | a symbolic story that gives insight into ultimate questions about beliefs, natural phenomenons, or practices of a particular people |
| Ark of the Covenant | an ancient symbold of God's protection and presence; a portable throne in ancient times that included a seat that was believed to be occupied by God |
| natural moral law | the moral order that is part of God's design for creating the law that expresses the original moral sense, enabling people to discern good and evil through use of reason |
| origin story | an explination of how something came to be |
| short story | a breif narrative in which characters and a plot are fully developed |
| epic | a long, exaggerated, and idealize narrative about a hero or heorine who goes through various trials |
| imagery | concrete sensory details that make a lietary work vivid and realistic |
| figure of speech | a comparison that is ment to be taking imaginatively rather than literally |
| parallelism | most evident feature in the Old Testament, repetition of words and phrases or thought patterns |
| irony | what is said or done is contrary to what is expected |
| J Yahwist Tradition | uses the wor Yahweh for God, written during the United Kingdom, a history of the Israelites to show ther national pride and identity |
| anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to nonhuman objects or animals |
| E Elohist Tradition | refers to God as Elohim, written during the divided kingdom, focuses on the north, talks about the covenant, human responsibility and obidience |
| D Deuteronomic Tradition | focuses on laws |
| P Preistly Tradition | unify the people by writing laws down, focus on religious rituals |
| oral tradition | unwritten, memorized accounts of historical events and stories |
| Babylonian Exile | period of history when the Babylonians forced most of the inhabitants of Judah to migrate to Babylon |
| Esodus | departure of the Israelites from Egyptian slaver under the leadership of Moses who was led by God |
| inspiration | divine influence; God flowsinto and influences the human intellect, will, imagination, memory |
| patriarchs | the ancestors of the Israelites, particularly Abrahame,, Isaac, and Jacob |
| matriarchs | the ancestors of the Israelites; Sarah, Rebekah, Leah, Rachel |
| revalation | God's deliberate and gradual disclosure to humans of himself |
| Fertile Crescent | region of rich farming and grazing land extending in an arc from Mesopotamia to Canaan |
| Pentateuch | the first five books of the Old Testament |
| monotheism | the worship of one God |
| polytheism | the worship of many gods |
| providence | divine guidance and care |
| Torah | Jewish name for the first five books of the Old Testament; "law" |
| Hebrews | peoples enslaved in Egypt who eentually became the community known as Israel |
| Israelites | a people who unified around 1050 to 1000 BC and included Canaanites, the hapiru, the shasu, sea peoples, and the original Hebrews |
| Jews | term originally used to describe the people who resettled in the area of Judah following the Babylonian Exile; most commonly used to refer to followers of Judaism |
| primeval history | before historical dates, facts, and events were recorded |
| religious truth | the important lesson for teligion that comes from a story, not necessarily literal truth |
| historical truth | the historical facts; what literally happened |
| folklore | composite of traditional customs, art forms, tales, and saying pereserved among a people |
| major sections of the Hebrew Scriptures | law books, historical books, wisdom books, prophetic books |
| the four traditions | Yahwhist J up to 950 BCElohist E up to 850 BCDeuteronomic D up to 650 BC and laterPriestly P up to 550 BC and later |
| geaneology of Abraham | Abraham Isaac Jacob JosephSarah Rebekah Rachel Leah |
| meaning of name changes | Abraham and Sarah have been assinged a mission to raise God's people |
| meaning of the name Israel | one who has struggled with diving and human beings and survived |
| archeology | the stuy of past human life as revealed by relics left by ancien peoples |
| bilical archeology | the study of biblical people as revealed by relics left by biblical peoples |
| HI Ancestors or Patriarchs | 1. Abraham and Sarah are the ancestors of the Hebrews |
| HI Hebres in Egypt Prosperous | 2. the twelve tribes become strong |
| HI Hebres in Egypt Oppressed | 3. the pharoah enslaves the Hebrews |
| HI Exodus | 4. Moses leads the Hebres out of Egypt, parts the Red Sea |
| HI Wilderness Wanderings | 5. the Israelites are lost in the desert, receive the ten commandments |
| HI Settlement | 6. Joshua leads the Israelites into the promised land |
| HI Judges | 7. Judges lead the tribes, Israel is unfaithful |
| HI United Kingdom | 8. Saul, David, then Solomon builds the temple in Jerusalem |
| HI Divided Kingdom | 9. After Solomon dies two sons fight for the throne, divide into Israel in the north, Judah in the south, lots of prophecy |
| HI Fall of Israel | 10. Israel is overtaken by the Assyrians |
| HI Fall of Judah | 11. Babylonians take over Bethlahem, Jews taken captive to Babylon |
| HI Babylonian Exile | 12. Captivity shook faith of Jewish people, synagogues and Torah scrolls are focus of worship |
| HI Restoration of Judah | 13. Cyrus, king of Persia lets the Jews come home |
| HI Hellenization | 14. Greek culture is brought to the area |
| HI Maccabean Revolt | 15. prominent Jewish family leads revolt against the Greek way of life, many Jews persecuted |
| HI Roman Rule | 16. Roman presence makes Jewish self-rule impossible |
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