Creation
The first book of the Bible, detailing the creation of the world.
Genesis
The first human created by God according to the Genesis account.
Adam
The first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible containing sacred history and divine law.
Torah
Two ancient cities destroyed by fire from heaven due to widespread wickedness.
Sodom and Gomorrah
The traditional ancestral divisions of the israelites, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
12 Tribes of Israel
The belief that there is only one God.
Monotheism
The first woman, created as Adam's companion and the co-ancestor of humanity.
Eve
A solemn, sacred agreement or promise made between God and his people.
Covenant
The ancient near Eastern region promised by God to Abraham and his descendants.
Canaan
The son of Isaac who wrestled with a divine figure and was renamed Israel.
Jacob
The responsibility and authority given to humanity to care for and steward the Earth and its creatures.
Dominion
The righteous patriarch instructed by God to build an ark to survive a massive worldwide flood.
Noah
The personal, proper Hebrew name for God as revealed in scripture.
Yahweh
A massive tower built in Shinar where God scattered humanity by confounding their shared language.
Tower of Babel
Jacob's elder twin brother who famously traded his birthright for a bowl of stew.
Esau
The vast expanse or dome of the sky that was understood in ancient cosmology to separate the waters above from the waters below.
Firmament
The foundational patriarch called by God to leave his homeland and become the father of a great nation.
Abraham
Something set apart, made holy, or dedicated exclusively to God's purpose.
Sanctified
An ancient city in Mesopotamia where Abraham lived before receiving God's call to migrate.
Ur
The son born to Abraham and Sarah, whose lineage carried on the covenant promise.
Isaac
The study or framework of how the origin, structure, and nature of the universe are understood.
Cosmology
Abraham's wife who miraculously gave birth to Isaac in their old age, fulfilling God's promise.
Sarah (Sarai)
The theological concept of humanity's inherently fallen condition resulting from Adam and Eve's first disobedience.
Original Sin
The mountain range where Noah's ark came to rest after the flood waters receded.
Mt. Ararat
Abraham's firstborn son through his wife's servant Hagar, recognized as a patriarch in his own right.
Ishmael