Comprehensive Israelite History and Biblical Law Concepts

Central Highlands

Place where most of Israel's cities were settled

House of the Father/clan/tribe

Order of society from small to large

Deuteronomic Theology

Centralization of worship

Name theology

The place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for His Name!

Election and loyalty

Holiness Code, its location and focus

Lev 17-26-on the people

Patriarchal

Society run by the males and a male member would be head of the house of the father

Casuistic-type of law code

if/then statement, goring ox law one example

Importance of Shechem

God first appeared to Abram there

Canon endings and what they point towards

Chronicles-Jewish-expectation to rebuild the temple/Malachi-Christian-expectation of waiting for someone to come

Location of Daniel in canon

Writings=Jewish canon vs. Prophets=Christian canon

Peace offering

Widest latitude of species and sex of animal for sacrifice-could be shared

Purification offering

Also called sin offering, a means to enable someone with major ritual impurity back into a state of ritual purity; debate about whether it could secure forgiveness from intentional sin

Retribution Principle

Found in Deuteronomy, based on covenantal curses and blessings

Covenant

Oath bound relationship with defined expectations and obligations

Purpose of kosher

As a means to keep distance between Israel and its neighbors

Torah (its meaning)

Law, instruction, teaching

Sign of the Covenant (Abrahamic)

Circumcision-Gen 17

3 books last brought into canon

Song of Songs, Esther, Ecclesiastes

Interpretive Pluralism

Christians don't agree on what the Bible says-different viewpoints

Languages OT written in

Hebrew and Aramaic, with Hebrew being dominant

Hittite Treaty

Pattern (6 parts) like the suzerain vassal treaty in Exod/10 commands

Mernepthah Stele

First mention of Israel as a people group outside the Bible

Shephelah

breadbasket of Israel, located between Philistine Plain and Central Highlands

Shema

Deut 6:4-9; Shema means listen or hear in Hebrew

Wellhausen

Julius Wellhausen-scholar most closely associated with the Documentary Hypothesis (JEDP)

Judah/Ephraim in Joseph story

Both play a key role and rise to power in the story

Ketef Hinnom

Earliest biblical textual language ever found

Source analysis

The quest to find the (hypothetical) sources behind the text before it was edited together

Apodictic

Type of law code, using absolutes, showing no grey area-10 commands as an example

Tabernacle-meaning/zones of holiness

Zone 1-Holy of Holies-restricted to High Priest, one day a year

Redaction Analysis

Focus on how texts are brought/edited together

Neo-Assyrian treaty

Scholars debate whether Deuteronomy more formally resembles a Hittite treaty or a Neo-Assyrian treaty

Map of the ancient Near East

Know what civilizations lived where

Kings associated with the northern kingdom

Jereboam, Omri, and Ahab

Biblicism

Forcing the Bible to speak into every situation of life

Name God vs. YHWH-burning bush

The covenantal name of God is revealed as YHWH-I AM who I AM

Yom Kippur-purpose

Cleanse the space and the people so God would continue to dwell with his people

Exod 19/3 things Israel is to be

My treasured possession, A Kingdom of priests, A holy nation

Dating of the Exodus

Early date=1400's, built on the chronology of 1 Kings 6:1

Holy in Leviticus

Frequently found in the book as a theme word

Golden Calf

Terrible sin by Israel

Burnt offering

The most holy offering, fully devoted to God, done daily-nothing could be eaten

Grain offering

Would accompany the burnt offering-only could be eaten by the priests

Theme of blessing in Pentateuch

Connected to land

Two great sins of Israel in the Pentateuch

Golden calf and the faithlessness of the scouts

Pentateuch (its meaning)

Five books/scrolls

3 promises of Abrahamic Covenant

Land, Descendants, Blessing

Meaning of Deuteronomy

Second law

JEDP-what each letter stands for

J=Yahwist, E=Elohim, D=Deuteronomy, P=Priestly

Division of Genesis

1-11-Primeval History, 12-50-Patriarchs

6 Parts of an ancient Near Eastern covenant

Preamble, Historical Prologue, Stipulations, Deposition and provision for reading, List of witnesses, Curses and blessings

10 Commandments interpreted in Exodus/Deuteronomy

Sabbath command, Remember in Exodus; Observe in Deuteronomy

Book of the Covenant/Covenant Code

Found in Exod 21-23 in the midst of the Sinaitic covenant

Josianic Reform

Reforms match language of Deut in specific, Dated to 623 BC

Moses striking the rock-implications

Unable to enter the Promised Land

Which Pentateuchal book was structured as a treaty

Deuteronomy!

Views on who is the 'us' in Genesis 1

Declarative statement-let us go do it!