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The Bible |
a lettler from God, A story of God's boundless love, the ispired word of God, Letters from home, ispired by the holy spirit |
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The New Testament |
Is the fulfillment of the Old testament, and Cannot be understood without understanding the Old Testament |
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The Old Testament |
sacred scriptures inspired by God |
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Teh catholic canon of the Old Testament consistis of how many books? |
46 |
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The Book of Genesis |
written down around period of the Babylonian Exile |
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The Creation Story |
Adam and Eve create original sin |
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Adam and Eve were created to |
Enjoy the garden and be intimate companions to each other |
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Noah |
builds an ark to protect himself his family, and some animals from destruction |
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the rainbow |
God's promise that the world will never again be utterly damaged |
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Ismael and who is his motehr |
a bedoin and the father of the Arad peoples: hagar is his mother |
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Issac |
Sarah and Abraham's son, it means laughter |
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Rebekah |
Issacs wife |
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Joseph |
HAd a bright robe, rachel's first son, brothers disliked him b/c he didnt have to do work |
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The Exodus |
Isrealites enslaved to live in Egypt |
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Israel means |
One who has contended with divine and human beginings |
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Moses |
is raised by pharoah's daughter as an egyptian prince and grows up knowing he is really an isrealite |
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The Tenth plague |
angle of death, the first born males are ordered to be killed |
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Crossing the Sea of reeds |
parting of the red sea moses parts it and Isrealites cross safetly and are freed |
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The Ten Comandments |
decalogue, 1.oly worship one God 2 dont speak Gods name in vain 3.keep sabath as a day of rest 4. honor your mother and father 5. you shall not kill 6. no adultry 7. no stealing 8.no fals witness 9.no covet neighbors house 10. no covet anything that belongs to your neighbor- trust in god more than your wealth |
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The golden calf |
a cow that poeple worshipped instead of God |
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Book of exodus claim that the descendants of Abraham, I ssac and Jacob were |
Freed by God from oppression in Egypt |
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The catholid use of unleavened bread is rooted in |
The Jewish custom of serving only unleavend bread during passover season |
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The boook of leviticus |
law makers, made by preists...levites, reminds us of holliness code |
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The Holliness code |
teachings collected by presitwriters b/c they show how true worship is expressed in a person's everyday life |
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The book of numbers |
reports exagerated numbers of isrealites and priestly regulations.. and containf wanderings to cannan --- teaches in the end God will provide |
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Joshua |
moses' assistant- moses chose hime to take after him to lead to the promise land, lead the Isrealites' invasion of Cannan |
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The Deuteronomsits |
part of a vigorous reform movement b4 exile, teach ppl prosper when they are good and obey, but fail when htey defy God |
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Deuteronomy |
3 sermons by moses |
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collection of laws from exodus through deuteronomy is called |
the law of moses |
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Ruth |
judge, daughter in law of Naomi, Loyal to naomi |
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Judges |
stories how god raises up and delivers to save isrealites, 12 of them |
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What did the Deuteronomist do for the poeple of Israel |
gave Canaan to the Isrealites, wrote down history of jews, and reminded them of their faith |
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Samson |
nazareith, long hair hair= strength...delilah cut his hair = weakness; kills a lion with his bare hands |
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Gideon |
destroys alter of baal, and leader of fights between mideanites, nicknamed Jerubaal meaning," let baal contend against him |
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Jericho |
city fell, sroty with ezikiel, largest city in canna |
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Baal |
The cannanite pagan god for fertility |
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Deuteronomic history |
joshua, judges, samuel 1&2, Kings 1&2, and taught that the exile= time of reflection |
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What was the point in God's asking that Gideon scale down his army |
The Israelite might credit their triumph to their own might, not to God's power |
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Samuel |
A prophet who anoints two kings of Israel |
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Saul |
disobeys God's law twice, he makes a prebattle sacrafice and fails to carry out the ban against a defeated army |
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David |
Slays Philistine Goliath |
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The book of sauel and teh begging of the First Book of Kings |
describes the time of isreal's transition to nationood and tells stories of saul, david and solomon |
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teh davidic covenant |
a line of david's decesndents that will reign forever |
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Writting Prophet |
latter prophets, whoses messages are passed on to us in separate books; amos, hosea,isaiah, micah |
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nonwriting prophet |
elijah and Elisha, samuel, nathan, talees passed along by disciples |
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elijah |
slayed baal worshipers. Condemns Ahabs greed for a vine yard and Leaves in a chariot of fire |
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Elisha |
succedes Elijah, miracles: purifiys water supply,bleses childless couples, cures Laban of leprosy, and Ressurection |
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Nathan |
nonowriting prophet |
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Micah |
writting prophet |
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From Solomon's death to the BAbylonian exile, Judah;s kings were |
direct descendants of David |
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Manasseh, son of Hezekiah |
bows to Assyrian gods, and is the grandfather of Josiah, one of Juda's greatest reformers |
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Jeremiah |
has two visions: a watching tree and a boiling couldron |
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ezekiel |
dies in exile. he acts to prophesize |
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the exiles |
during the Exile Jews were not allowed temple practice they had some freedom they were not slaves. They were allowed to build homes |
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The authors of Chronicles |
ezra and Nehemiah |
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Chronicles |
written after the rebuilding of teh temple...retells israels history in terms of its meaning in God's unfolded plan |
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The samaritans |
descendents of jews, and foreign settlers in the north-- were regarded as inferir by jews |
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the book of chronicles were written |
after teh rebuilding of the temple |
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Why was rebuilding Jersualems walls important |
the walls symbolize the outlines of Judaism's identity and provides a sense of security to jerusalems inhabitants |
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How did the Persians respond to ezras reform |
tolerated and supported |
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The problem of Greek domination in judea was that |
greek rulers punished jews for practicing their religon and teh lifestyle and philosophy lured many jews away from their own tradtiond and faith |
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ecclesiastes |
means teacher..pessimimstic outlook on life |
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the book of Job |
God is in charge bringing us through or darkest of moments and the mystery of life is too great to grasp |
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sirach |
depicts wisdom as a woman who was with God at creation..sirah is concerned with hisrtory of Israel, its heroes,and its institutions |
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the song of songs |
one of the wisdom books, its a book of love poems |
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tobit |
in the end faithful goodness and trust in God are rewarded with blessing |
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jonah |
depicted satirically God tells him to go to nineveh, Jonah is swallowed by a big fish |
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judaism's three branches |
orthodox reform and conservative |
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The goal of biblical teachers was to |
ispire moral integrity |
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Catholic tradition has often read the passages on wisdom in the old testament as related to |
Mary, the mother of God |
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Orthodox reform and conservative all |
share belief in one God and hold the same moral truths revealed by God in the Torah |
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The book of Job helps us to understand |
God is in charge bringing us through or darkest of moments |
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The wisdom offered by the Songs of Songs is |
love cannot overcome death |
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God answered teh prayers of Tobit and Sarah by sending which angel to intervene? |
Raphael |
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The psalms |
lament, thatnks and praise |
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The psalms of praise |
celebrates wonder of Gods majesty |
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The psalms of lement |
express grief and complaint to God for sufferign and beg for help |
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The psalms tag lines |
reminds us of the events in biblical history that could have prompted such prayers |
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Why are the Psalms easy to remeber? |
They include repition and express the same idea in two contrasiting ways |
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Psalms of tahnks |
express gratitude for God's good deeds |
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The psalms of Lament do all of teh following |
recall gods mercy, kindness, and power...convey shocking emotions....and voice the deep pain people are suffering |
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Psalms of praise |
come from an attitude of humility and focus on the goodness,power,and majesty of God |
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"I feel wonder and awe at all I see" is characterized as what kind of psalm |
praise |
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What themes come up repeatedly in teh psalms of praise |
God's wonderful deeds and goodness to the people and teh beauty and intricacy of all creation, which God has brought into existence |
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The story of Abraham's test has been interpreted as |
confirming that God forbids human sacrafice |
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Amos |
mad at rich sumeria, calls women "fat cattle" |
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Hosea |
Married Gomer, symbolizes God + Israel |
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Gomer |
Unfaithful wife of Hosea |
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Community worship was central in the Isrealites lives becuase |
it expressed who they were and it bount them together as one family of faith |
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The ghost of samuel phropesizes that |
Saul will die in the next battle and his family line |
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Solomon |
davids son, builds temple, asks god for wisdom |
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