cs test 1

Cards (51)

  • Middle Bronze Age: 2100-1550 BCE
  • Late Bronze Age: 1550-ca.1200 BCE
  • BCE: before common era
  • Possible date of Exodus: 1250 BCE
  • Beginning of the Iron Age: 1200 BCE
  • Merneptah Stele: 1207 BCE
  • Assyrians destroy Northern Kingdom of Israel: 722 BCE
  • Babylonians destroy Southern Kingdom of Judah: 586 BCE
  • Period of the Old Testament's composition: 1150-165 BCE
  • Range of the DSS composition: 250 BCE-50 CE
  • Muratorian Canon: 3rd/4th cent. CE
  • Easter Letter of Athanasius: 367 CE
  • Claromontanus Catalog: 4th cent. CE
  • Aleppo Codex: 930 CE
  • Codex Leningradensis: 1008 CE
  • TaNaK: Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim
  • Pentateuch: 5 books (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) GLEND
  • Torah (“Law,” “Instruction”)
  • Genesis Chapters 1-11: the primeval (i.e., “of the first age”)history
  • Genesis Chapters 12-50: the ancestral narratives
    • Sources of Pentateuch: Reconstructed sources, patterns within the biblical text, classic model:The Documentary Hypothesis(Julius Wellhausen c. 1878)
  • J -Yahwist (German “Jahvist” ca. 950 BCE)Yahweh (“the LORD”)E -Elohist (c. 850 BCE)Elohim (“God”)D -Deuteronomy (c. 621 BCE)P -Priestly Source (c. 550 BCE)
  • Genesis 1&2 diff.: The names for God are different.Gen 1—Elohim “God”Gen 2—Yahweh Elohim “the LORD God
  • Genesis 1&2 diff.: The picture of God differs.Gen 1—transcendenceGen 2—immanence
  • Genesis 1 & 2 portrayelements of creation asthings, not gods!Focus: God & humans
  • God as both all-powerful (Gen 1, P) and personal(Gen 2, J)
  • Humans as culminating (Gen 1) or central(Gen 2) act of creation
  • Gen 1 Creation: God all-powerful; creation is ‘good’;humankind as culmination (imago dei)
  • Gen 2-4 Creation: God as personal; humankind as central
  • Gen 6-9 Flood: broken and then renewed relationshipbetween God & humankind (plus all living things)
  • Genesis 11 Babel: human presumption against God;divisions among humankind
  • Eponymous ancestors:Ancestors who provide thenames of later groups
  • Abraham (Genesis 12-25) Isaac (Genesis 24; 26) Jacob (Genesis 25-36) Joseph (Genesis 37-50
  • Abraham travel: Travel 1: Ur to Haran & Travel 2: Haran to Canaan
  • God’s Call & Promise (Gen 12) Abundant Offspring, Land, Blessing
  • Change of names: Abram>Abraham Sarai>Sarah Elohim (‘God’) > El Shaddai (‘God Almighty’)
  • Gen 17: sign is circumcision
  • Jacob the trickster: dupes Esau to forfeit birthright
  • Deception of Isaac: steals blessing
  • Flees to his uncle: Laban at Haran also to find a wife