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REL 130 Exam 1
exam 1 study guide
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Canon | Term for the official list of books in the Bible; Greek word (Kanon) Means 'rod' |
| 3 Canons | Protestant, Jewish, Catholic |
| Jewish Canon | 3 Divisions (Torah, Prophets, Writings); 39 Books |
| Christian/Protestant Canon | 4 Divisions( Pentateuch, Historical, Poetic, Prophets); 39 Books |
| Catholic Canon | 4 Divisions (Pentateuch, Historical, Prophets, Writings) 46 Books |
| Deuterocanonical books | Roman Catholic and Eastern Christian term for the Apocrypha books |
| Apocrypha | Protestant term for a section of books added to the Septuagint and wasn't apart of the TaNaK |
| Martin Luther Purgatory | Purgatory is an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification; Martin believed in this until 1530 |
| TaNaK | Hebrew Bible; Composed of 39 Books; Torah (Law) Nevi'im (Prophets) Ketuvim (Writings) |
| Canonization processes/stages for Jewish canon and Protestant & Catholic canons | Apostolic Origin, Theological correctness, determined to be appropriate by church leaders, Widespread appropriation by the churches |
| Four Longitudinal regions of Canaan/Palestine | Costal Plains, Hill Country, Jordan R Valley, Transjordan |
| Fertile Crescent | A crescent shaped area in the middle eastern known as modern day Iraq |
| Canaan | Isreal/Promised land |
| Dead Sea | a salt lake bordered by Israel in the Jordan R Valley |
| Part of Canaan where Israel settled (Hill Country) | Judea/Judah |
| Gift of the Nile | Egypt |
| Pharaoh's headdress | Double crown (Pschent) |
| Assyria | northern Mesopotamia |
| Babylonia | southern Mesopotamia |
| Torah/Pentateuch | Fist 5 books of the Bible |
| Mosaic Authorship | the belief that Moses wrote the Torah |
| Problems with Mosaic Authorship | People think that it couldn't have been possible for Moses to have written some things because he was dead or he just had not been alive at the time to witness things. |
| Oral Tradition | first stage in the formation of the written gospels as information was passed by word of mouth |
| Four Source Theory | JEDP |
| J | Yahwist |
| E | Elohist |
| D | Book of Deuteronomy |
| P | Priestly |
| JE | Old Epic |
| Julius Wellhausen Documentary Hypothesis | source criticism theory that states that Moses didn't completely write the Torah |
| Themes in the Torah | Relationship between God and humanity, God's covenants and the consequences for not observing them, and the continuous cycle of temptation, sin, judgement, and redemption |
| Firmament | sky/expanse |
| Pattern of sin and judgement | Temptation, sin, discovery by God, judgement, and mitigation |
| Blood crying from the ground | When Cain killed Abel |
| Adam and Eve | "First humans" created |
| Day 1 | Light- day, Dark - night |
| day 2 | Creation of the sky |
| Day 3 | Ground, water, vegetation |
| Day 4 | Sun, moon, stars |
| Day 5 | Air/sea animals |
| Day 6 | Humans, land animals |
| Day 7 | God rested |
| Plural for God | Let 'us' make man in 'our' own image |
| Adam | means mankind |
| Adamah | means soil |
| Cain and Abel | Sons of Adam and Eve |
| Noah | obedient man of God |
| The ark | the boat God commanded Noah to build |
| Rainbow | symbolizes the covenant God made with Noah |
| Gen 1-11 as etiologies/etiological stories | The stories are seen as myths that explain origins and causes |
| Etemenanki | A Ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in Babylon |
| Ziggurat | Ancient Mesopotamian temple tower |
| Enuma Elish | The seven tablets of creation for the gods |
| Tiamat | Goddess of water |
| Garden of Eden | Earthly paradise inhabited by the first humans |
| Anthropomorphic view of God | God having human attributes (e.g., God walking through the Garden of Eden) |
| Abraham and Sarah | Parents of Isaac |
| Isaac's Wife | Rebekah |
| Jacob and Esau | Isaac's sons |
| Leah and Rachel | Jacob's wives |
| Ishmael | Abraham and Hagar's son |
| 'Apiru | (Hebrew) Socioeconomic class of people living on the fringes of society |
| Promise to the Ancestors | That they will be fruitful and multiply/ have many sons/ be blessed |
| Sacrifice (or Binding) of Isaac (Aqedah) | The almost sacrifice of Isaac |
| Lower and Upper Egypt | Lower = northern Upper = southern |
| Meaning of the Final Shape of the Torah (w/ Israel outside the Promised Land) | points to the exile to which when the Torah was finished |
| sin as “trying to be like God” | eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil/ Eating from the tree (Adam and Eve) - sin trying to be like God |
| The meaning of creation in 7 days of the week | living in the world God has made and you're blessed/ God created the world in 7 days not the Babylonian gods |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | old and most popular tales in the ANE |
| Utnapishtim | an immortal god |
| Phyllis Trible’s interpretation of Gen 2-3 | A more feminist perspective of Genesis 2-3 |
| Walter Brueggemann’s Interpretation of Gen 4 | He interprets Genesis as a proclamation of God's decisive dealing with creation rather than as history of myth |
| Three areas of the Fertile Crescent | Mesopotamia, Canaan, Egypt |
| Rivers of the Fertile Crescent | The Nile, Tigris and Euphrates River, Jordan River |
| Why is the order of the canons different ? | Since the coming of Messiah is part of the prophetic message, putting the prophets at the end prepares the reader for the beginning of the new testament , the Gospels. This is a theological arrangement, not chronological that is found in the Jewish canon |
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