Opening the Old Testament Terms pages 70-85
Terms
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- refers to the great event of the parting and crossing of the____at the time of the exodus, sometimes used synonymously with the exodus to denote the miraculous events of that time
- Red Sea
- any kind of falling away from God, notably the worship of other gods or idols
- Apostasy
- refers to the work of ______-those who changed parts of texts or added material at a later stage than that of the main author or authors
- Redactional
- refers to the group of historical books that the scholars call Deuteronomistic History, these books contain stories about early prophets such as Samuel, Elijah and Elisha
- Former Prophets
- land of the dead, a place of shadows and of no further communion with God
- Sheol
- practice of black arts, notably the raising of spirits from the dead ostensibly to speak to the living
- Necromancy