Scripture Voacb Chapter 2
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- Palestine
- derives from "Philistines" ; Greeks, after conconcurring the land named the land from "Philistines" to......
- Hieroglyphic writing
- an ancient form of Egyptian writing, more stylized than pictograms but not based on an alphabet
- Prehistoric
- events or objects that date to a time before writing developed and written records exist.
- Fertile Crescent
- a land bridge between two great civilizations
- Pictograms
- the earliest forms of writing in which pictures represent words or ideas
- Monotheism
- worship one God
- Canaan
- a homeland for the Israelites (between Egypt to the South and West and Mesopotamia to the North and in the Old Testament times).
- Four major zones
- the coastal plains, the hill country, the Jordan Valley, and the Transjordanian Plateau
- Biblical Era Dates
- 1300-1100 B.C
- Scribes
- people trained to write using the earliest forms of writings before literacy was widespread
- Polytheism
- worship many Gods
- Context
- the historical, cultural, social, or political circumstances surrounding an event or record
- Baal
- God of the Canaanites who brought rain and provide for fertile grounds