Word Nerds
This word refers to whatever texts a particular tradition treats as sacred.
What is Scripture?
After nearly everything God makes in the first creation story, God looks at it and calls it this.
What is good?
In the second creation story, God plants a garden in this place, in the east.
What is Eden?
Righteous in his generation, this man builds an ark and survives the flood with his family.
Who is Noah?
This is the only period on our timeline with no year numbers to go with it, just a word.
What is Creation?
These are the first five books of the Bible, and the first of the three parts of the Tanakh.
What is the Torah?
In the first creation story, humans arrive at this point in the sequence.
What is last or sixth day?
This is the one tree in the garden they are told not to eat from.
What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
Righteous in his generation, this man builds an ark and survives the flood with his family.
Who is Noah?
These are the dates given for the period of the Ancestors.
What is 2000–1300 BCE?
Besides the Torah, these are the other two parts of the Hebrew Bible that make up the Tanakh.
What are the Prophets and the Writings?
Genesis 1:27 says God creates humans in this.
What is the image of God?
They are put out of the garden specifically so that they cannot eat from this other tree and live forever.
What is the tree of life?
At the end of the Babel story, God does these two things to the people.
What is scatter them and confuse their languages?
This is the single year given on the timeline for the Exodus from Egypt.
What is 1300 BCE?
A tradition may treat many texts as sacred, but only the ones on this official list count as its authoritative Scripture.
What is the canon?
This is the word for the rule over the other creatures that God hands to humans in the first story.
What is dominion?
This is the one thing God calls "not good" in the second creation story.
What is that the man should be alone?
This is what happens to the humans' eyes the moment they eat the forbidden fruit.
What is they are opened?
This period runs 1300–1250 BCE, sitting between the Exodus and the Conquest of Canaan.
What is the Wilderness?
A Jewish Bible and a Christian Bible overlap a great deal, but this entire section appears in only one of them.
What is the New Testament?
The first creation story does not stop where chapter 1 stops. It runs all the way to this verse.
What is Genesis 2:4a?
They are driven out of the garden specifically so they cannot eat from this and live forever.
What is the tree of life?
Cain murders his brother, and this is what happens to Cain himself.
What is he is cursed?
The Fall of Jerusalem and the start of the Babylonian Exile share this same year on our timeline.
What is 586 BCE?