Religion 111

5 Written Questions

1. Created by Wellhausen, four sources that make up the Torah: Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly Writer.
2. Genesis 1-11. The story of universal beginnings, against which Israel's story is set.
3. Members of the highest order of angels, often pictured with three sets of wings; Isaiah saw them in a vision of God sitting on a throne in the temple. A seraphim placed coal in Isaiah's mouth to cleanse him. Depiction of how powerful God is
4. Edict of Cyrus
5. Early Jewish writings of a religious nature included in the Septuagint but not included in final rabbinic canon (Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch, Additions to Daniel, 1-2 Maccabees)

5 Matching Questions

1. Deuteronomy
2. Monotheism
3. Edict of Cyrus
4. 550 B.C.E
5. Synoptic Gospels

1. a Restatement of the law of Mt. Sinai on the plains of Moab, three addresses from Moses (1:1-6)
2. b Cyrus issued the decree of liberation to the Jews, concerning which Daniel had prayed and prophesied. The edict of Cyrus for the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem marked a great epoch in the history of the Jewish people. Repatriation
3. c Matthew Mark and Luke--because they each include many of the same stories, very few differences in sequence
4. d Cyrus the Great defeats the Medes, announcements of exiles
5. e One and only one god who exhibited the powers and qualities of all gods. Variety of gods as a supreme manifestation of one supreme being

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Greek term for bible, the books
   1. Jericho
   2. Tanakh
   3. Apocrypha
   4. ta biblia
2. 8th-7th century prophet. Very controversial and most quoted book. The holy one of Israel
   1. Samaritans
   2. Syncretism
   3. Isaiah ben Amoz
   4. Seraphs
3. Destruction of the Temple
   1. 550 B.C.E
   2. 66-70 C.E.
   3. 70 C.E.
   4. Essenes
4. Discusses who should run the Temple. Critical voices are subsumed in overwhelming narrative. Foretells that Jerusalem will be holy place.
   1. ta biblia
   2. trito-isaiah
   3. Tanakh
   4. Theophany
5. Growing sense of separation between the divine and the human, questions of accessibility to gods and of "new world" to come ruled by the divine
   1. Decalogue
   2. Zealots
   3. Dualism
   4. Tanakh

5 True/False Questions

1. Essenes → A group of Jews that withdrew from the world into the desert in order to live a life of prayer and asceticism. Their name means " the pious ones" or " the healers."

   True        False

2. Covenant → Example of inevitable doom vs. repentance:
   God may relent and change his mind (also in Mt. Sinai, the Judges cycle, and Amos 7:1-9)

   True        False

3. Latter prophets → Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, "The Twelve"

   True        False

4. Jonah 3 → a common way of referring to the Hebrew Bible, derived from the first letters of the Hebrew names of its three sections: Torah (T), Prophets (N), and Writings (K).

   True        False

5. Samaritans → People who lived in the area of israel called Samaria. The Samaritans came from Jews who married non-Jews.

   True        False