Old Testament

Jordan River

-Connects the red sea - the river where Jesus was baptized in - Metaphoric term for Heaven and Earth meets

Noah

-Creates the Arc - Saves man kind - He gets drunk after the flood and 1 of his son sees him naked. Noah puts a curse on the son

Redaction Criticism

-Editorial writing - looking back and explaining why

Joseph

-Favorite son of Jacob - Sold to Egypt - Brings the people to Egypt to be saved from Famine

Adam & Eve

-First man and woman - ate the forbidden fruit - parents of Cain and Abel

Elijah

-Greatest prophet - Taken by god( unknown death) - Spokesman against the evil king Ahab

Moses

-Leads Israelites out of Egypt - Splits the red sea - God gave him the 10 commandments - Dies mysteriously - One of the most prominent figure other than David

Baal

-Major God(deity) in Canaan (the land of Israelites)

Circumcision

-Mark of Israelites - have to be done after 8th day post birth

Joshua

-Moses's successor that leads every one into the promise land - The conqueror of Canaa

Flavius Josephus

-Roman historian - He chronicled the Jewish history

Masoretes

-Scribes that added Vowels into the Hebrew words - Added numbers to the Chapter and versus - Changes made for easy to recite

Cain & Abel

-Sons of Adam and Eve - Cain kills Abel - Cain was jealous of Abel because God accepted Abel's sacrifice.

Vulgate

-Translation of Old Testament into Latin

Septuagint

-Translation of Old testament into Greek

Source Criticism

-Who write it? - Was I around when it was written?

themselves; YHWH

Almost all the judges in the book of Judges are "unattached" warriors who serve no one but _______ and _______ .

Ezra; Nehemiah

Both _____ and _______ offer us a theological interpretation of political decisions made both in Persia and in Judah.

Amos

During the period of _______' period, the northern kingdom of Israel expanded and new wealth began to flow.

divining; fortune-tellers; dream interpreters; truth-teller; covenant relationship

For all their skill in "________" the future, Israel's prophets were primarily neither __________ nor __________. The primary task of an Israelite prophet was to be a _________by declaring the word and the will of YHWH to his contemporaries, and the principal "truth" that the prophets were summoned to proclaim was the true nature of the ________________.

Jeremiah;

In contrast to Isaiah of Jerusalem, _______, and _______, the anonymous prophet whom scholars call second Isaiah focuses on messages of hope and consolation.

Jeremiah; Ezekiel

In contrast to Isaiah of Jerusalem, _______, and _______, the anonymous prophet whom scholars call second Isaiah focuses on messages of hope and consolation.

priest-king;

In depicting David as a ________ whose reign is significant primarily because he uses his power to bring the arc of the covenant to Jerusalem and to promote construction of Yahweh's sanctuary there, the chronicler asks his readers to remember David as an unblemished worshipper of Israel God.

Hebrew Bible (Tanakh); Apocrypha

In finalizing the canon of the___________, Jewish editors rejected approximately fourteen documents that had been included in the Greek Septuagint edition of the Jewish Scriptures. Accepted by the early church as deuterocanonical, these books, known as the ________, are part of Catholic and Eastern Orthodox editions of the Old Testament. (Pg. 371 Chap 30)

Daniel; 7-12

In the book of _______, chapters _______contain a series of apocalyptic visions, each of which embodies a common eschatological projection of a not-too-distant future.

Jesus; Jesus

In the decades that followed his death by crucifixion (in approximately 30 CE), _______ of Nazareth soon emerged, in the minds of his disciples, as something more than a wisdom teacher or faith-healer. In the biographical sketches of his life and work, preserved in the oral traditions and later written accounts of the first century CE Christian community, ______ followers understood his role in history, and his relationship to God, in ways that reflected their varied interpretations of, and extrapolations from, the Hebrew bible.

pseudepigraphal

Like the books in the canonical Writings and the apocrypha, the __________ works encompass a wide range of literary genres, including poetry, apocalyptic works, and prose narratives.

Oral Tradition

Passing down stories from generation to generation by speaking.

absence in wisdom writing

Perhaps the most striking difference between wisdom literature and other forms of moral instruction and psychological analysis in the Tanakh—and certainly the characteristics that differentiates it most sharply from prophecy—is the _________ of any reference to the mosaic covenant, or the exodus, or the exile.

absence in wisdom writing

Perhaps the most striking difference between wisdom literature and other forms of moral instruction and psychological analysis in the Tanakh—and certainly the characteristics that differentiates it most sharply from prophecy—is the ____________ of any reference to the mosaic covenant, or the exodus, or the exile.

favoring a single author; circle of priestly writers

Scholars differ widely over who might have___________________ written and/or redacted the Deuteronomist History. Some while others think it was a ______________.

Deuteronomist History

The Book of Deuteronomy looks forward and backward. The books from Joshua to Kings are commonly referred to as the _________________.

Apocrypha; Septuagint

The ________ first appeared in the ________. It is included in most Greek and Roman Catholic bibles and accepted by Protestants these books are not included in the Hebrew bible.

Joel

The book of _____, traditionally place after Hosea as the second book in the collection of the minor prophets, presents a double challenge to readers: Nothing can be inferred from the superscription of this book about when Joel lived and taught nor can we even be certain that the entire book, short as it is, is a work of a single author.

Psalms

The book of ______ contains 150 individual lyrics composed at different times of over a span of perhaps six centuries; this poetic collection expresses virtually the full range of Israelite religious experience.

Ruth; Esther

The book of _______ is one of the more memorable novelist of the Hebrew bible, and other than the book of _______, it is the only canonical book of the Hebrew bible whose principal figure is a woman.

Solomon

The first Israelite king to be raised in an urban palace rather than in the rural villages and pastures,__________ assumes more of the trappings of royal privilege than his two predecessors.

holy war

The idea of _______, as presented in Joshua and other Deuteronomist writings, carries with it both a rationalization for annihilating one's foes, and a rigorous code of military etiquette that places under a sacred "ban" all persons and valued objects associated with the enemy.

164 ; 70; Judaism; Christianity

The period of postbiblical Jewish history that stretches from the Maccabean victory of _____ BCE to Tituss destruction of the Second Temple in______ CE—often designated as either the era of the "Second" Commonwealth or the era of the Second Temple—is a conflict-ridden but highly creative period that serves both as a postscript to our study of biblical literature and as a preface to the history of the two world religions that claim the Hewbrew bible as a foundational text, namely, _____ and ________.

Torah; N Nevi'im; Kethuvim

Three parts of the Hebrew bible: the _______, _______, and the _______.

sacrifice a goat or lamb; pass over

To make sure that the Angel of Death distinguishes between Egyptian and Israelite households and spares the first born son, the Israelites are told to_____________ and to smear the blood on their door posts, prompting the divine executioner to "_________" their dwellings.

Etiologies

Torah passages take the form of _________- a particular kind of narrative that explains the cause or origin of some natural phenomenon, social custom, or religious ritual.

Isaiah; Hezekiah

________ of Jerusalem served as prophet and counselor to three Judean kings: Jotham, Ahaz, and _______.

Venerable Bede

________ was the first person to translate the bible to English.

The Old testament; Jewish scriptures

_________ forms the first and larger section of the Christian Bible, the second part of which is the new Testament, a collection of twenty-seven books that the early Christian community added to the older ___________.

The Navi

__________ - the most commonly used Hebrew word to designate a "messenger" of YHWH - is one who is called by God or who speaks on his stand to be divinely commissioned or inspired.

The Palestine region

__________ is approx. 150 miles long and 70 miles wide, is slightly smaller than the state of New jersey.

Mesopotamia

__________ is the "land between rivers" is the name Greeks gave to the region at the head of the Persian Gulf in what is now southern Iraq.

Lamentations; Babylonians

__________ is the work that is chanted in sorrow when Jews gather each year to mourn the destruction of Jerusalem. According to tradition, the city fell to the________on Aug 9th, 587 BCE, and again on the same day and month to the Romans in 70 CE.

Moses flees from Egypt; lives as a shepherd ; mountain of God

___________ and then settles in Median, a desert region south of Edom, where he _________ and marries the daughter of a local priest. It's while tending the sheep on the "_____________" in the Midianite territory that Moses experiences the second great transition in his life course.

Judas Maccabeus; Syrians; Antiochus; Hanukkah

___________ is a heroic who served to the Jewish nation. He defeated the _______ in several battles. Marching into Jerusalem, accomplishes his main religious objective: reclaiming the Temple and purifying the altar that ________ has polluted. Judas then institutes the joyous festival of dedication—known today as ________.

Masada

- A post Christ fortress - Israel made her last stand against the Roman - Rome could not reach so build a air bridge, the Israelite men killed them selves and the women were left to tell the Romans that they would rather die then to be slaves

Elisha

- A prophet - Able to raise the dead - Healed enemy general from Leprosy - performs miracles

Esther

- A queen - She saved her people from extermination

Jerusalem

- Capital of Israel - Place that is claimed by all 3 religions

Egypt

- Enslaved the Israelites - Home of the Pharaoh - Constant enemy in the Old Testaments

Ahab

- Evil king - unwise king - Betrays his country because of his wife Jezebel

Abraham

- Father of many nations - Judaism/Christianity/Islam all claims his faith - Sarah is his wife

Mesopotamia

- First civilizations - land between rivers - later known as Babylonia - Now known as Iraq

Saul

- First king of Israel - Jealous of David - Loses throne because of Jealousy and disobedience of sacrifices

Alexander the Great

- Greatest conqueror - Attempted to turn everyone Greek - enforced an Hellenistic world

Bathsheba

- Has an affair with David - Was married to Uriah - Mother of Solomon

Daniel

- Jewish child taken captive - Interprets dreams - has vision of the future - Thrown into the lion's den and lived

Anthropomorphism

- Literary device use to give God human attributes

Canaan

- Promised land given to Israelites

Palestine

- Region between Israel and the Jordan river - South of Syria

Fertile Crescent

- Region where Civilization were born at - between two rivers

Dead sea scrolls

- Scrolls found in the 20s century that predates the time of Christ

David

- Second king of Israel - Israel's greatest king - The Shepherd kid - Defeated Goliath - Betrays his best friend

Solomon

- Son of David and Bathsheba - Writer of Proverbs - Wisest man that ever lived - He had a lot of wives

Samuel

- The last judge - Who anointed the first king of Israel - Served as a prophet to Saul

The Judges

- Tribal leaders who ruled before the kings

Ruth

- Widow that starts life in Israel - Marries Boaz(Wealthy man)

Form Criticism

- what writer is being used? - What is the mission of the writer?

Passover

-Angel of Death - Celebration of Jews coming out of Egypt

Jacob

-Becomes Father of Israel - has 12 sons that leads the 12 tribes

The Psalmist

Rejecting Deuteronomist assumption that suffering results from sin, the _______ insists that his community has kept its Torah obligations: All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, or been false to your covenant, our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way, yet you have broken us...(Ps 44:17-19).

psalmist

Rejecting Deuteronomist assumption that suffering results from sin, the _______ insists that his community has kept its Torah obligations: All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, or been false to your covenant, our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way, yet you have broken us...(Ps 44:17-19).