Flashcards: Journey through the Old Testament Ch. 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 anthropomorphism | The attributing of human characteristics to nonhuman realities |
| genealogy | An account of ancestry |
| original sin | The human condition for the need of salvation based on the first human's choice to disobey |
| patriarch | male leader of a family or tribe |
| personal sin | The free choice to disobey God;to do something that is the opposite of the good |
| providence | Divine guidance and care |
| sin | Something spoken, a deed, an attitude, or a disire contrary to God's law |
| social sin | A collective, social act or sign that society has distanced itself from God |
| primeval history | before the recording of historical dates, facts, and events; history of the forgotten past |
| Enuma Elish | The Babylonian creation story |
| Gilgamesh Epic | Babylonian flood story |
| Code of Hummarabi | laws and rules set out by Hummarabi |
| Cain | Son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother Abel out of jealousy |
| Abel | Adam and Eve's second son |
| Noah | Gos saved him and his family and the animals through the ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain |
| Tower of Babel | The story of social sin and its effects |
| Sarah | Abraham's wife |
| Isaac | The second patriarch: son of Abraham and Sarah |
| Ishmael | Abraham's son by Hagar, Sarah's maidservant. The founder of the Arab tribes |
| concubine | A secondary wife with few rights |
| Hagar | Sarah's Egyptian maidservant; concubine of Abraham |
| Rainbow | sign of God's covenant promising not to destroy the earth again with flood |
| Semitic | A subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic |
| Jacob | grandson of Abraham, son of Isaac and Rebekah, brother of Esau, and the traditional ancestor of Israelites. His name was changed to Israel, and his 12 sons became the 12 Tribes of Israel. |
| Esau | He gave up his birthright for a bowl of Jacob's stew |
| Rebekah | Wife of Isaac and mother of Jacob and Esau |
| Abram | Abraham's name before God changed it. |
| Sarai | Sarah's name before God changed it. |
| Genesis 1 - 11 | Section of Genesis that deals with events related to primeval history |
| Genesis 12 - 50 | Section of Genesis that deals with events related to the known history of the ancient Middle East |
| Creationism | teaching of the creation of the world through a literal interpretation of the creation stories in the Bible |
| The Fall | The story of Original Sin and its consequences |
| The Flood | story about God giving creation a new beginning |
| The Story of Cain and Abel | The story of the first murder and its consequences |
| Leah | Jacob's first wife |
| Rachel | Jacob's second wife and mother of Joseph and Benjamin |
| Joseph | Jacob's favorite son |
| Lot | Nephew of Abraham, with whom he migrated from Ur to Haran and finally to Canaan; |
| Land, Decendents, and Blessings | The covenant promises God made with Abraham |
| J | prefers to use the name LORD or LORD GOD; often portray God in very human terms than divine; God is very close to his people |
| P | prefers to use the name God when speaking of God; portray God as far above his creation, giving commands, being an all powerful God; alson like to list family trees (genealogies) |
| E | makes use of angels, visions, dreams, as ways God interact with his people |
| D | writers of the Book of Deuteronomy |
| Proto-evangelium | The first gospel: the passage in Genesis (3:15) that first mysteriously announces the promise of the Messiah and Redeemer. |
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