Scripture Midterm Review
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- Fait
- a personal knowledge of the heart and experience of God and love. Relationship
- Theology
- reflection on our faith experience and attempting to interpret that experience
- Belief
- is a product of faith and theology
- Revelation
- the showing and telling of God's self
- salvation history
- a record of chronological events of people who have a relationship with God and God's saving deeds
- Bible
- the inspired books
- Old testament
- god's covenant of love made with the israelis through moses, the hebrew scriptures
- New Testament
- God's covenant of love carried out throught Jesus, contains 27 books
- Jew
- God's chosen people, the hebrews, the israelites
- Oral tradition
- the passing of stories and traditions by word of mouth
- parchment
- made from skins of animals that were sewn together to make strips for writing on
- Papyrus
- made of a plant that was soaked and pressed into a paper-like substance
- Inspiration
- god used human creativity and insight to convey the religious truth
- Literary forms
- different forms of literary devices used to convey a meaning
- Allegory
- an extended comparioson in which the details of a story stand for deeper realities
- biography
- a written account of a person's life
- creed
- a formal statement of religious belief
- etiology
- A STORY THAT TRIES TO EXPLAIN THE CAUSE OF SOMETHING
- riddle
- a question that posed to somebody that needs to be pondered upon to find the answer
- contract
- a mutual agree ment between two or more parties that something shall be done or forborne by one or both
- ledgend
- a story, history, account
- Parable
- a short, simple lesson that teaches a moral
- Fable
- a brief story with a morla
- history
- a chronological narrative or record of events
- law
- another name for the pentatuech
- prophecy
- an inspired utterance made by a prophet which expresses god's will
- anthology
- a collection of literary gathered into one volume
- canon
- the list of biblical books that the church recognizes as inspired
- septuagint
- a greek translation of the Jewish scriptures
- Deuterocanonical
- second canon
- Apocrypha
- hidden or withdrawn from common use-the 7 Greek scriptures
- Torah
- sacred books that contain the Jewish Law and important instruction on elief and practice
- Pentateuch
- the first five books of the Old Testament, also called the Torah
- Historical books
- narrate how the Chosen People lived out the covenant in teh Promised Land
- Wisdom Books
- contain some of the most beautiful and practical religious literature in the world
- Prophetic books
- contains the writings of the prophets
- Canaan
- the heartland of 3 major religions
- Canaanites
- phlytheistic people that lived in canaan
- Ppolytheistic
- belief in more than one god
- Monotheistic
- belief in one God
- Israel
- teh name given to Canaan after the twelve tribes decended from Jacob (israel), now referred to the northern kingdom
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Discovered in 1947; contains religious writing and OT scriptures
- Jacob
- Joseph's father, known as israel
- Judah
- the southern kingdom of Israel and named after the largest trib
- Palestine
- teh Greek name for israel Conquered by alexander the great
- 1280
- teh beginning of the Exodus with Moses
- Hellenism
- greek culture
- philistines
- a sea-faring people who settled along the coast of israel
- Fertile crescent
- teh area that surrounds the middle east
- Mediterranean sea
- a large body of water that is in the middle of the middle east
- Jordan river
- the name of a river in palestine
- ancestor
- from one whom a person is descended
- exodus t
- the book that tells the story of deliverance and records the covenant between God and the people
- Babylonian captivity
- many leading Jews were carried off to babylon by the babylonians and made captive
- diaspora
- teh dispersion of the jews once freed from the captivity
- aramaic
- teh common language spoken in babylon and the whole middle east
- vulgate
- common or the church's official teaching in latin
- concordance
- lists all of the occurances of a word in the bible
- biblical atlas
- helps you navigate around teh ancient biblical world with maps
- biblical dictionary
- referance works that treat many themes, names, places and other topics
- 1000
- david is anoint king
- 7221
- the fall of the northern kingdom to the assyrians
- 587-538
- babylonian captivity
- genesis
- origin
- exodus
- journey of moese to the promised land
- leviticus
- the commands of the chosen peopl
- numbers
- the laws that help from the israelites during their forty years in the desert
- deuteronomy
- instructs its readers on teh meaning on the meaning of the exodus experience
- myth
- expresses a spiritual ttuth or a basic belief of a particular culture by means of a narrative
- prologue
- and introduction
- pre-history
- before history
- patriarch/ matriarch
- father/mother
- moses
- "drawn from water"; lead the chosen people out of egypt
- ezra
- during ezra's timek the pentatuech was combined
- yahwist
- a type of tradition that calls god yahweh, is very eathy and vivid, anthropomorphic, origins in judah around 950 BCE and key themes are divine promises
- anthropomorphic
- viewing of God as human
- Yahweh
- God
- Elohist (E)
- a tradition that views God as abstract, calls God Elohim, originates in Ephraim around 850 BCE. vcovenant is the central theme
- Elohim
- god
- deuteronomist
- means second law, calls God Yahweh, emphasizes morals, originated around 650 BCE
- Priestly
- emphasizes preistly concerns, originated during the babylonian captivity and uses lists
- four source traditions
- sources that created the Torah
- Ruah
- wind, spirit
- Enuam elish
- the babylonian creation myth
- sabbath
- holy day of rest
- historical critical method
- when readinug the bible, tryin to get hte real meaning, not just the literal one
- textual criticims
- reading the bible literally
- transmission history
- analyzes the development f the oral traditions that were handed down
- form criticism
- breaks down a text into its smaller components to discover the literary forms that were used
- redaction criticims
- investigates how an editor used written sources and wht the edition tells us about he editor's theological interets
- archeology
- unearths artifacts, written materials and other evidences of the civilization of anciet israel
- fundamentalism
- interprets scripture in an absolutely literal way
- paradox
- a statement or tent contrary to reciewved opinion or belief, especially one that is difficult to believe
- sin
- doing something gainst the will of God that humans fully consent to
- temptaion
- giving into sin
- Alienate
- to turn away form
- eve
- mother of the world
- adam
- man of clay
- symbol
- something the stands for a deeper meaning
- cain
- kills his brother abel in his jealousy
- abel
- is killed by brother cain
- Abram
- trusted in a love god who promised thema land and a people; came from Ur; lived around 1800 bce
- Abraham
- father of a multitude
- 1850 bce
- when abrahma was alive
- sarai
- abraham's wife before the name change
- sarah
- princess
- hagar
- the maid sarah offered to abraham to have a son
- folklore
- the traditional beliefs, legends and custms, current amoung the common people
- bronze aga
- 2300 BCE-1600 BCE
- amorites
- westerners
- semites
- a person belonging to the race of mankind which includes most of the peopls metioned in Gen;jews
- nomads
- people who moved from one place to anothe
- semite
- a person belonging to the race of mankind in genesis
- anti-semitism
- against semitism
- Ur
- the city where abram originated
- el, elohim
- god, gods
- el shaddai
- god almight
- adonai
- lord
- Jehovah
- hybrid of the word adonai
- YHWH
- I am who am
- Tetragrammaton
- the word yahweh as YHWH in teh jewish scriptures
- islam
- the religion that follows Muhammod
- covenant
- promsie between a peope/person and God
- B'rith
- covenant in hebrew
- Hesed
- teh quality of god in the covenant (loving kindness, mercy that is shown to the people of the covenant)
- circumcision
- practiced as a religious rite by Jews and muslims and by various other nations; also a surgical operation; the sigh of Abraham's and God's covenant
- sodom
- a very evil, sinful city that god wanted to destroy
- flaming torch
- a symbol for god
- brazier
- a portable over and the smoke and fire represents god
- isaac
- laughter; given to sarah's and abraham's son
- ishmael
- the son of abraham and hagar and means "god has heard"
- holocaust
- burnt offering
- 3 qualities of faith
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1. trust in god
2. obedience to god
3. belief in god - Esau
- "red, hairy one"; son of Isaac and Rebekah
- Jacob/Israel
- had 12 sons and one daughter; founding of a whole new nation
- Harah
- place where Jacob fled to/where laban lived
- Rebekah
- Isaac's wife
- Laban
- offers Isaac Rebekah as a wife and tricks Jacob in working for his daughter Rachel and Leah
- Rachel
- Jacob's favourite wife;bore him Joseph and benjamin
- Leah
- Jacob's least favourite; kept bearing sons to win jacob's love
- bilhah
- Rachel's maid; bore Dan, naphtali
- zilpah
- Leah's maid; bore gad and asher
- Dinah
- only daughter of jacob, is raped
- polygamy
- practice of many wifes/husbands
- Metanoia
- radical change of heart
- potiphar
- bought joseph as a slave, made him keeper of his household
- benjamin
- youngest son of Jacob and Rachel
- Manesseh
- Joseph's son
- Ephraim
- Joseph's son
- Zaphenath-peneah
- joseph's egyptian name
- pharaoh
- has joseph interpret his dream, makes him second-in-command of egypt
- asenath
- joseph's wife
- propeht
- someone who speaks the word of God to ppl
- mediator
- person who goes back and between people and god and talks to them
- apiru
- hebrew in egyptian
- moses' mother
- hid him so he wouldn't be killed, sent him down the river to be taken in by the pharaoh's daughter and then nursed him
- midwife
- were instructed to kill all boys born by the Hebrews
- puah and shiphrah
- midwifes ordered by the pharoh to kill all hebrew boys
- pharaoh's daughter
- took care of Moses and found in the river
- miriam
- moses' sister
- midian
- place where moses fled after killing an egyption
- jethro
- moses' father-in-law
- zipporah
- moses' wife
- gershom
- moses' son
- burning bush
- symbolizes God's presence in a theophany
- theophany
- a showing or manifestation of God
- Aaron
- Moses' brother and speaker
- ramses II
- Pharaoh during the time of Moses
- 1250 BCE
- Time of the exodus
- Passover/10th plague
- Passover is when the Hebrews were to kill a lamb, spread it's blood on the door frame, eat it's meat with unleavened bread and bitter herbs and eat like ready to leave/death of the first born
- Matzoh
- unleavened bread;comemorates when the hebrews couldn't use yeast in teh original exodus
- salt water
- the tears of the israelite slaves
- bitter hearbs
- symbolic of the bitterness of their slavery
- haroseth
- reminicent of teh mortar used by slaves
- Red sea/reed sea
- Moses parted this water to escape teh egyptians
- manna
- bread
- sinai covenant
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israelites are to be "god's chosen people", enables pepole to become a nation blessed by God, heart of teh religion of Israelites. Revealed God's mercy and love.
Stipulations: 1. People must follow commandments 2. ppl must be faithful through obedience and worship - Mt. Sinai
- place where teh 10 Commandments were made
- Golden Calf
- statue constructed to represent God since the hebrews had thought he had left them
- Ark of the Covenant
- box that carried the commandments
- Joshua
- person who eventually led the Chosen people into the Promised Land and was Moses' helper
- Code of Hammurabi
- Commandments were based upon this