Bible
The 3 original languages of the Bible.
What are Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic?
The emoji that signifies the Bible in Unit 1.
What is fire emoji?
The creation of sun, moon, and stars according to Genesis 1 occurred on this day.
What is day 4?
The primary function of marriage in biblical antiquity.
What is to produce an heir?
How the Bible was first transmitted.
What is orally?
A better image of what “The Bible” is.
What is a library or scroll of books?
The art and science of interpretation.
What is hermeneutics?
Kaltner & McKenzie identify the book of Jonah as this literary genre.
What is satire or parody or hyperbole?
Hagar’s status in relation to Sarah.
What is handmaid or slave?
The art and science of interpretation.
What is hermeneutics?
The collection of the first 5 books of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible.
What is the Pentateuch?
The primary reason why scholars say there are 2 creation accounts in Genesis.
What is the change in the divine name? Gen 1 (God). Gen 2 (Lord God).
The overall message of the book of Jonah.
What is prejudice and God’s love for all people?
A literary device that indicates an origin story.
What is etiology?
A fear of foreigners.
What is xenophobia?
The Greek translation of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible.
What is the Septuagint?
2 Greek words that make up theology.
What are theos and logos?
The group of people who most likely wrote the first creation account in Genesis 1.
Who are priests?
A theme that is exemplified in the stories of Isaac, Jacob, Rachel, Joseph, and Ephraim.
What is God’s preference for the younger sibling or underdog?
The divine name in Genesis 2.
2 Questions: 5 literary genres of the Bible and the first 5 books of the Bible.
What are history, narrative, law, wisdom, prophecy, poetry, gospel, epistle, and apocalypse? What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy?
The 4 "theological" senses of Scripture.
What are literal, allegorical, moral, anagogic?
The group of people who most likely were addressed by the Gospel of Matthew.
Who are Jews?
A sexual act whereby a man loses his superior status as a man.
What is penetration?
An origin story.