Abby
The time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value or the
time required for any specified property (e.g., the concentration of a substance in the body) to
decrease by half.
What is Half-life?
This science is the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the
analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.
What is Archeology?
The archeological and geological evidence seems to agree with the Biblical account of a type of
an event from Genesis 7.
What is a global flood event?
It is the quality of being in possession of universal or complete knowledge.
What is
Omniscience?
Genesis chapter 10 of the Bible contains a sort of genealogical document known to those who
study the scriptures as this.
What is the “Table of Nations”?
This false deity was considered the protector god of the city of Babylon.
Who is Marduk?
A temple of Sumerian origin in the form of a pyramidal tower, the Tower of Babel was probably
one of these.
What was a ziggurat?
This ancient region, home to Ruth and Orpah, occupied a plateau about three thousand feet
above the level of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Moab?
The Biblical references to this region are roughly correspondent to the area of the Levant.
What
is Caanan?
The studies of religious faith, practice, and experience especially: the study of God and of God's
relation to the world.
What is Theology?
In the ancient Akkadian language, the name of the city of Babylon has this meaning.
What is
Gate of the gods?
This interesting word means an INTERNAL name for a geological place or a group of people, or a
language or dialect. This type of word is only used within that community and not by outsiders.
What is an endonym?
This man, who was the first leader of the Hittites, changed his name to this word meaning from
Hattusa (the capital city of the Hittites).
Who was Hattusili?
This ancient form of writing (we tried our hands at during the beginning of the year) first
developed by the Sumerians and was later used by many other civilizations including The
Akkadians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hatti, Hittites, Assyrians, and the Hurrians.
What is
cuneiform?
The words of the curse of Ham, spoken by Noah in his anger at his youngest son Ham, father of
Canaan, turned out to be this kind of statement.
What is prophetic?
This king of Babylon was a central figure in and a contributor to the historical and prophetic
book of Daniel.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar II?
The beginnings of this empire were secured through the efforts of a monarch who would
eventually be known as King Cyrus the Great.
What is Persia?
This word means showing or feeling active opposition or hostility toward someone or
something.
What is Antagonistic?
This word means to have established or settled someone in a comfortable, safe, or secret place.
What is ensconced?
This verb means to become progressively worse.
What is deteriorated?
This war-like people whose name sounds like an invitation to pugilism, occupied a territory
entailing the entire area between the Euphrates River and the city of Damascus.
Who were the
Hittites?
This mo’ed is also called the Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles.
What is Succoth?
According to the Biblical account, the Moabites are descended from this nephew of Abram
[Abraham].
Who was Lot?
This vocabulary word means to make an action or process easy or at least easier.
What is to
facilitate?
This area is considered by many to be the cradle of human civilization, the name means, “Land
between the Rivers”.
What is Mesopotamia?