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1 & 2 King: The history of the ings from Solomon until the fall of Jerusalem (961 - 587 B.C.)
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1 & 2 Samuel: The people proclaim their need for a King ( 1080- 1040 B.C.)
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10 Plaques: 1) water filled with blood
2) influx of frogs
3) gnats
4) flies
5) livestock diseased
6) boils
7) Thunder and hail
8) locust
9) darkness
10) death of the firstborn
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12 sons of Jacob: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issacha, Zebulun, Gad , Dan, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin
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Abraham: First of the patriarchs to know Yahweh
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Adam and Eve: Adam - Man
Eve - Mother of all living things
Man and Woman disobey the rules of creation together
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Akhenaton: 1) Egyptian pharaoh from 1364 - 1347 BCE
2) worshipped one god ( the Sun God)
3) Egyptian and Hebrew slave were forced to practice th worship of only one god
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Book of Exodus: the Hebrews' exit and liberation from slavery in Egypt
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Cain and Abel: 1) Awareness - God refusess CAin a praise greater than Abel's
2) Choice: Cain kills Abel
3) Consequence: Cain is forced out of the community
4) Mercy- Cain is not killed in his wanderings
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Canaan: the area around the Jordan River and Dead Sea. This is a term used before David's Kingdom
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Canaanite city-states: make their own laws, religions and farmlands
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Charismatic leadership: someone "empowered by the spirit"
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Contract: are legal agreements which protect rights: written in technical language
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Cosmic: tellus how th world works
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court prophet: prophets who spoke Yahweh's word as officials of the royal court
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Covenant: bind people together through a loving relationship
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Covenant Treaty: The fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham
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David: 1) good heart
2) talented musician
3) slaying of Goliath ( strength)
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David: central character of the Deuteronomic History
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Deuteronomic Books: describe the events which took place between 1200 - 900 BC
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divine favor: god's blessing
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E source: Elohist Source
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Elements of Legend: -story that has been told and retold a countless number of times
-the story may or may not be true
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Elements of Myth: 1)Theological
2)Cosmic
3) Social
4) Ethical
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Elijah: unofficial prophet
forceful advocate of the covenant
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Ethical: tells us what values human beings should have and how we should behave
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Genesis: collection of oral traditions from the tribal period (1225-1000 B.C.)
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God's covenant with david: 1) ruled as God's appointed ruler on earth
2) god made a promise with david: his descendants would sit on the thone of Israel forever
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Hardships in the desert: 1) hunger/starvation
2) thirst
3) attacks
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Hebrew: spoke the Hebrew language and followed the Hebrew culture
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Isaac: The son of Abraham
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Isralite: a citizen of the nation of Israel
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J source: Yahweh source
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Jacob: The second son of Isaac: twin of Esau (older)
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Joshua: -Israel's conquest of the Promised land (1250-1200 B.C.)
-is portrayed as the ideal leader of Israel
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Judges: -was someone inspired by God to lead the Israelites in times of crises ( usually during times of war)
-God chooses strong heroes and leaders to protect the people ( 1220 - 1000 B.C.)
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message: god's words
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Moses: is the person appointed by God to deliver the Hebrew from slavery in Egypt and to lead them to the Promised land (Canaan)
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Mount Sinai: 1) Yahweh delives the law to Moses and Aaron on Mount Sinai
2) Moses writes down what God has said and will deliver it to the Hebrew people
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Northern Kingdom: Israel
capital - samaria
objected to Solomon's policies
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P source: Priestly Authors Source
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Parity Treaty: equal parties
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People's Disobedience: 1)Hebrew people created an image of a Golden Calf: represented a middle eastern god
2)Moses smashes the tablets of the law
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prophet: one who is filled by the spirit of Yahweh and is giving a essage to declare
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prophetic message: 1)clear and direct - message was about real life issues
2)specific audience - direct toward a specific person ( king) or a group
3)immediate action - current issue ( political) that needed to be solved
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Saga: is a tale with both elements of legend and history
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Samuel's warning of kingship: 1) standing army - creation of a military draft
2) pledge allegiance to the king - forced labor
3) taxes
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Saul: tragic man; pushed away his closest advisors
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Seer: type of prophet
lived in groups and their message appear to have been received through altered states of consciousness
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Semite: a description of a larger group of people made up of smaller cultural groups (Hebrews, Arabs, Canaanites,..)
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Sequence of Creation in Genesis: 1)Man 2) The Garden 3) All living things 4) Woman
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Social: tells us how society should be organized and who hould be in charge
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Soloman: - son of kind David
- inherited a strong and wealthy empire
- greatest strength was his wisdom
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Solomon's abuse of power: began honoring foreign gods
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Southern Kingdom: Judah
capital - Jerusalem
felt the objection to the house of david broke the covenant
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Stories of the sins of the world: 1) Themes of the Fall
2) Adam and Eve
3) Cain and Abel
4) The flood
5) The Tower of Babel
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Temple: the structure built by solomon for worship of yahweh in Jerusalem
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The flood: 1) Awareness: Social Pressures
2) Choice: Man's wickedness on Earth
3) Consequence: Flood of Destruction
4) Mercy: Noah and his family survive
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The Tower of Babel: 1) Awareness: Build a city and tower with its top in the sky
2) Choice: humanity's attempt at divinity
3) Consequence: God destroys the tower and scatters the people throughout the world
4) Mercy : The world is populated with different races, nations, and languages
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Themes of the Fall: 1) Awareness-through their independent action humankind is made aware of possible choices
2) Choice-humankind acts on decision made through their own free will
3) Consequences-humankinds decision goes against God's favor
4) Mercy-God does not abandon humankind
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Theological: tells us what God is like and how God relates to us
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Theological points (book of judges): 1) Israel follows Yahweh/Covenant =peace and prosperity for Israel
2) Israel follow other gods or breaks the Covenant = Israel suffers (foreign invasion)
3) Israel in need of Yahweh's help = Yahweh provides help
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Timeframe of Deuteronomic History: written around th 7th and 6th Century B.C.
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Torah: another work for Tanakh
5 books of bible
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Triumphs of David: secured Israel peace with its neighbors and nation prosper
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Twelve tribes of Israeil: all of the hebrew tribes met once a year in the city of Shechem to renew the covenant with Yahweh
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unofficial prophet: a prophet who did not belong to a guild or hold a position at court
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Vassal Treaty: one party had a superior (had more) power over the other party
