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The great cosmic story, that God is actively co-authoring with and through His creation, made known to us through Divine Revelation.
What is salvation history?
The father or leader of a tribe, clan, or tradition
What is a patriarch?
Sometimes called the Decalogue, the list of norms, or rules of moral behavior, that God gave Moses and that are the basis of ethical conduct.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The reason why the Israelites asking Samuel for a king is a problem
What is God is their king but the Israelites are asking for a king like other nations? The Israelites are supposed to be holy (different).
"Do this: take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives, and bring your father, and come. Give no thought to your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours"
What is Joseph is instructing his brothers to return to Canaan and bring everyone to prosperity in Egypt?
A Hebrew word meaning "law," referring to the first five books of the Old Testament.
What is Torah?
Sarah's maidservant who had a child with Abraham.
Who is Hagar?
The night the Lord spared the houses marked by the blood of the lamb from death. Also the feast that celebrates the deliverance of the Chosen People from bondage in Egypt.
What is Passover?
The reason Moses was an unlikely candidate for freeing the Israelites from bondage in Egypt
What is he was "slow of speech and tongue" and the task seems impossible?
"And Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. So Sarah laughed to herself"
What is the Lord telling Abraham and Sarah that, despite their old age and barrenness, they were going to have Isaac?
God's manifestation of Himself in a visible form to enrich human understanding of Him.
What is a theophany?
Who are anawim?
This renewed God's covenant with Abraham's descendants. Establishes the Israelites as God's chosen people.
What is the Mosaic Covenant/Sinai Covenant?
The story of Jacob and Esau
What is sibling rivalry that resulted in Jacob tricking his father and stealing his brother Esau's birthright?
"For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them. Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering forever"
What is the Lord speaking to Samuel?
The holy scripture of Judaism, accepted in Jewish theology as Divine Revelation.
What is the Tanakh?
A judge who is a model of wisdom, courage, and holiness. The only judge with a story recalling their feats.
Who is Deborah?
God freeing the Israelites from bondage in Egypt through the leadership of Moses.
How God tested Abraham and why God chose to do this
What is the (almost) sacrifice of Isaac so Abraham could discover how much he is willing to trust God and follow his will? NOT for God to see if Abraham trusts God.
"Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you."
What is the Israelites are asking Samuel for a king?
The practice of destroying everyone and everything in a defeated town and burning it as a sacrificial offering to God
What is a ban?
People who were consecrated to God through a vow to remain in a holy state, which required that they refrain from drinking alcohol, stay away from dead bodies, and keep their hair uncut.
Who are Nazirites?
The systematic and planned extermination of a national, racial, ethnic, or cultural group.
What is genocide?
The reason the Israelites needed judges
What is they were caught in a cycle of sin and repentance because they could not put their trust in God?
"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, whether in the form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments"
What is YHWH giving the Israelites Ten Commandments?