CC 305 Quiz 2

Ball State

Septuagint

• 70 scholars came together and translated

• First major translation of biblical texts

Bereshit (berēšīt)

The first word of genesis that means “in the beginning”.

Pentateuch 

First 5 books of the Hebrew Bible

Torah (tōrā)

“Law” or “instructions” of Judaism

Enūma eliš

Theogony; Creation of the world from the Babylonians

Epic of Gilgamesh

Ancestor hero of Heracles; Oldest surviving epic and poem; World tree with serpent

Euhemerism

Argued that he was a god, but he was just a King

Deut 31.9 

Moses wrote down the law

Abraham Ibn Ezra

Jewish Scholar

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) 

Philosopher that is part of the documentary hypothesis

J (Yahwist) voice

Jehovah; Henotheists; interested in people; daring; garden of eden

E (Elohist) voice

Plural form of the abstract view of God

P (Priestly) voice

Scholarly source within Torah; Ritual law, priestly matters

R (Redactors) Voice

Editors who are believed to have combined different sources to form the first five books of the Bible.

The documentary hypothesis

The first 5 books have many different authors.

The form hypothesis

A literary interpretation of the Bible's creation story in Genesis.

El Shaddai

Name of another god, maybe henotheistic

Elohim

Used in genesis; E and P voice; Plural for gods

Yahweh (Jehovah)

Hebrew name for God; Yahweh believed to be Hebrew verb “to be”

tōledōt

Hebrew for “generations”

Upper and Lower Egypt

Ideas travel from south to north; Upper Egypt is Southern

Narmer (Menes)

First Ancient Egyptian Pharoah; Conquered people