Vocabulary
Binding and solemn agreement between human beings or between God and his people, holding each to a particular course of action.
What is a covenant?
Delivered his people from Egyptian slavery.
Who is Moses?
_____ murder of his brother Abel was a personal sin that arose from the shared Original Sin of humanity.
Who is Cain?
Human beings are made in the ___ and ____ of God, aka the imago dei.
What is image and likeness?
While the Canaanites worshipped a variety of gods, the most popular was ___, a god of rain who consequently provided fertile grounds for agriculture.
Who is Baal?
Refers to how the words of Scripture can be signs of something more profound.
What is the spiritual sense?
David was succeeded by his son, ___, who is credited with further consolidating the peoples and the initiating the construction of a national Temple.
Who is Solomon?
This was the name that Moses first heard when he was called to be the liberator of God’s People in Egypt. Is usually translated as “I am,” but it could also be “I am the God who is” or “I am and will be.”
What is YHWH?
Literally means 'second law'.
What is 'Deuteronomy'?
After Jacob labors for seven years Laban allows Jacob to marry Rachel. But at the nighttime wedding, his bride is covered with a wedding veil and Jacob does not realize until the next morning the trick that Laban has tricked him into marrying ___ .
Who is Leah?
A term meaning 'of the second canon', designates writings included in the Catholic OT but not included in the Hebrew Bible.
What is deuterocanonical?
Genesis bridges primeval history with information about important ancestors of faith including Abraham, Isaac, ____, and Joseph.
Who is Jacob?
An important difference between the two canons is that Jews recognize twenty-four books as their Sacred Scripture while Catholics include seven additional ancient Jewish books for a total of __ books.
What is forty-six?
When Israel divided into two separate kingdoms, the Northern Kingdom was called Israel while the Southern Kingdom was called ____.
Where is Judah?
_______ _______ is a type of writing that features highly symbolic visions which are usually described in graphic detail and are accompanied by the narration of an angel or heavenly figure.
What is Apocalyptic literature?
It is God’s breath that has filled human words with divine meaning in the Bible. God, who is the primary cause of every thought and every sentence of Scripture, has transformed the common words found in the Bible into uncommon words by the fact that he is its author.
What is Divine Inspiration?
The Book of ____ begins with a protracted description of an attack on the city of Jericho. In the common understanding of the Bible, the Israelites’ settlement of the Promised Land was on some level, a “conquest.” In the traditional view, ___ succeeded Moses and led an Israelite “army” in military actions that began with the amazing conquest of Jericho.
Who is Joshua?
___ was initially loyal to Babylon, but he was eventually persuaded by Egyptian agents to attempt a revolt against Babylonian power and join a coalition with Egypt. The results were catastrophic. Nebuchadnezzar’s forces returned to Jerusalem in 587 or 586 BC and devastated it.
Who is Zedekiah?
In the second creation account God begins his handiwork not with water, but with the ___.
What is land?
The story about a judge named ___ stresses that wars were won through the power of God, not how many men one has in the army.
Who is Gideon?
War must have a just cause such as self-defense and be called by a legitimate moral authority. There are four further requirements: • The aggressor must have inflicted lasting, grave, and certain damage on the attacked nation(s). • All other means of settling the dispute must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective. • There must be serious prospects for the war’s success. • The use of weapons may not produce evils graver than the evil being perpetrated by the aggressor nation.
What is just war doctrine?
I remained loyal to God and God blessed me despite my many sins. Later generations praised me, seeing in me someone God used to establish the nation of Israel as part of His divine plan.
Who is David?
(a) Look closely at the content and unity of the whole of Scripture. (b) Read Scripture within “the living Tradition of the whole Church.” (c) Be attentive to the analogy of faith—the unity of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole context of God’s Revelation.
What are the three criteria for interpreting Scripture?
All sin, including this Original Sin, is rooted in ____ to God.
What is disobedience?
The Israelites thought that God fought ____ for them, not merely with them.
What is miraculously?