CHS1 - Midterms (Part 1)

Exodus Story

narrates Israel's faith that God delivered them from a life of servitude in Egypt.

asserts that God sided with the oppressed Hebrews and fought against the Egyptians

number of descendants of Jacob

70

Pithom and Rameses

store cities for Pharaoh

Shiphrah and Puah

Hebrew midwives

Pharaoh’s daughter

saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it, son Moses

Moses

fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, Reuel gave Zipporah in marriage, 80 years old

land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites

a land flowing with milk and honey

Jethro

father-in-law of Moses, priest of Midian

Horeb

mountain of God

Israel

firstborn son of the Lord

circumcision

“bridegroom of blood”

The Passover

on the 10th day of this month each man is to take a lamb, a lasting ordinance, Passover lamb

Festival of Unleavened Bread

In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day

430 years

length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt

History

not just the ordinary story of wars, population movement, cultural advance or decline, it is the disclosure of God's activity in events (Israel's perspective)

God

who sides with the oppressed in their struggle for liberation

Israel's History

stated in a crucial historical experience that created a self-conscious history (exodus) and event so decisive that earlier happenings and consequent experiences were seen in its light.

The Exodus Story

God's serves us, decisive event

Social Justice

requisite for any nation to have peace and security

Oppression and Inequality

invites resentment and rebellion

Shiphrah and Puah

one of the two Hebrew midwives who delivered the children of the Israelites during Egyptian servitude

Torah Chronicles

disobeyed Pharaoh’s command and did not kill the Israelite male newborns

Moses

becomes a shepherd falls in love with Zipporah, marries her and grows adjusted to life in Midian

Aaron

eldest son and middle child of Tochered, younger brother of Miriam and older brother of Aaron

Miriam

tritagonist/tochered's daughter/Moses and Aaron's older sister

Pharaoh (Rameses II)

main antagonist/adoptive brother and former best friend of Moses who runs away from Egypt after accidentally killing a guard who was abusing a slave

Zipporah

wife of Moses/daughter of Reuel/Jethro.

Jethro

priest of Midian of the Kenite clan whom Moses took refuge/father of Tzipporah/father-in-law of Moses

Mediant

engaged in pastoral pursuits, caravan trading, banditry

Goshen

tochered and her children Miriam, Aaron and Moses (baby) quickly move to the Nile where tortured sings a lullaby to Moses and leaves him in Miriam, they settled in the Goshen

Sinai

location where Moses and addresses the 10 commandments other freeing his people with the help of God

Law

served to create one people with a common way of life enforced through regulations and traditions

Exodus 19

showed Israel to be aware of the condition of the covenant – keeping the law

Hebrews

refer to many other different groups of wandering people not belonging to any socio-political org, descendants of Abraham

12 Tribes of Israel

God called his own; group leaving Egypt. lacked unity and common identity, composed of former slaves and peasants, when the people after three days of journey found only bitter water

Exodus 15:25-26

"a decree and a law"

Books of laws

Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers

Covenant

solemn agreement between parties/way people understand their relationship with God.

Sinai Covenant

agreement between much more superior party who has the power and means to grant all the promises of the covenant, blessings of being God’s “treasured possession” out of all the nations

New Testament

Jesus refocused the too legalistic understanding of the Jews in his time

Israel

recognized the centrality of justice in the law. The poor, the orphans and widows, the strangers are given a special favor in the law

Christians and Jews

believe that the Ten commandments contain the high ethical standard that we ought to observe

Egyptian army

most powerful army at that time

Miriam

praised the God of history

Caleb and Joshua

instilled fear in the hearts of the people when they reported advantages of the people living in the land and their inferiority