christianity

what language(s) is the old testament

Hebrew and Aramaic

what language(s) is the new testament

Greek (Koine)

ruach

breath of the spirit

what helped standardize the Bible

printing press

canon

stick, or standard

Septuagint (LXX)

the oldest text from the OT

language of the MT (Masoretic Text)

Hebrew

language of the Septuagint

Greek

when was MT made

1000 CE

when was septuagint made

2nd century BCE

transcendence

being outside of human understanding (unknowable)

immanence

God has chosen to reveal to humans something of the nature of God

Cosmology

theory of beginnings and structure of reality

Ugarit

ancient city in Ras Shamra

Henotheism

The belief that one God is worthy of worship above the others but other gods exist

Tanakh

the Hebrew Bible (finalized btw 70-100 CE)

Tanakh parts

Torah (law), Nebi’im (prophets), Khetubim (writings)

how many books in torah

5

Genesis 1-11

Primeual History

Genesis 12-50

Patriarchal History

7 Days

Light, Dome (sea/sky), Earth/Vegetation, Heavenly bodies (sun/moon), Birds/Fish, Animals/People, Rest

4 Rivers

Pishon, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates

Sabbath

day of rest

symbolic numbers in Bible

7, 4/40, 12, 3

adam (adamah)

earth man

last book in the Torah

Deuteronomy

Yahweh

I am/I will be

10 Commandments

don’t worship other gods, don’t say His name in vain, honor the sabbath day, honor mother/father, don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t bear fault witness against neighbor, don’t covet neighbor’s wife, don’t covet neighbors house/goods

what do serpents represent

healing

anthropomorphic

to describe something that’s not human as human

adam and eve’s equal punishments

eve gets pain in childbirth and adam gets cursed/alienated and made to work

prescriptive

curse describes how things should be

descriptive

curse describes how things are

2 sons of Adam and Eve

cain and abel

what does water do in the flood

destroys and purifies

Genesis 12

Introduction of Abraham

3-fold promise

promised land, descendants, blessing

Horeb

Sinai

theophany

any manifestation of God

YHWH

Yahweh

adonai

lord

Yam suph

sea of reeds

Messiah

God’s anointed one

covenant

place where blessing is solidified into a contractual agreement

contingent contract

depends on people’s behavior

how is God revealed to us

time and space

special revelation

unknowable without God coming inot our time and space to make it known to us

general/natural revelation

the world has predictable choices and consequences

Major Prophets

Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel

Minor Prophets

Book of the 12

The Day of the Lord

when God comes in judgement

prophets of the exile

Jeremiah and Ezekiel

Greater Israel

Israel under Suliman

Cyrus

very successful military leader who entered Babylon in 539

Darius

ruler after Cyrus, divides Babylon into 7 states, prioritizes loyalty over fear

har-megiddo

pathway with a lot of bloody battles

Hellenistic

Greek

prophecy/divination

fortelling the future through magical means

nebi

mouthpiece of God

oracle

prophetic speech

Alexander the Great

wanted to turn everyone to Greeks everywhere he went, sets us up for the NT