Questions for Study
#. (3.1) In the book of Genesis, two covenants are emphasized — one in each of the two divisions of the book — and are related to two individuals. Name those two individuals:
| 1) | 2) |
____ #. (3.1) The Hebrew-based word
used to refer to the Hebrew Bible is
| a) Tanak | b) Torah | c) Nebi’im |
____ #. (3.1) The Hebrew-based word
for Bible, Tanak, is formed by using the first letter of the name
for the three divisions of the canon: Torah, Nebi’im, and Kethubim.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1) The book of Genesis divides
naturally into ____ basic sections.
| a) 2 | b) 3 | c) 4 |
#. (3.1)
List the chapters that belong to the following divisions of the book of
Genesis:
| 1) Beginnings: | 2) Patriarchs: |
____ #. (3.1.1) The theological nature
and purpose of Genesis excludes it from being considered valuable for any
other purpose than spiritual enrichment.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.1) The term primeval history
for documents like Genesis means that they should be considered scientific
history in the same way a modern historical documents.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.2; http://www.mindspring.com/~mysticgryphon/enuma.htm)
The enuma elish tells the tale of the creation of the universe, and of
man himself.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.2; http://www.mindspring.com/~mysticgryphon/enuma.htm)
The enuma elish is an epic tale of war and conquest, and was recited
on the fourth day of the New Year's Festival that occurs around the Vernal
Equinox.
| a) True | b) False |
___ #. (3.1.2; http://www.mindspring.com/~mysticgryphon/enuma.htm)
The reciting of the enuma elish, coupled with the reenactment of
the Hieros Gamos (sacred marriage), ensured the prosperity and fertility
of the king and his lands.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.2; http://www.mindspring.com/~mysticgryphon/enuma1.htm)
The god and goddess from whom all the gods and ultimately all humanity
originate according to the enuma elish creation tale were
| a) Apsu and Tiamat | b) Ea and Damkina | c) Marduk and Mother Hubur |
____ #. (3.1.2; http://web2.airmail.net/capella/aguide/genenum.htm)
The six days of creation in the Genesis story roughly parallel the six
generations of gods created in the Enuma Elish tale.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.2; http://web2.airmail.net/capella/aguide/genenum.htm)
In the enuma elish tale Marduk the sixth generation god makes man as a
slave so the other gods can rest, but in Genesis one God (Elohim) makes
man on the sixth day and then he himself rests.
| a) True | b) False |
| Gen. 1:1-2:4a | Gen. 2:4b-2:25 | Psalm 104:1b-8 |
| 1:1 In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth. 1:2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness
was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the
face of the waters. 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was
light. 1:4 And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light
from the darkness. 1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
1:6 And God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 1:7 And God made the firmament and separated the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. 1:9 And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 1:10 God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. 1:11 And God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, upon the earth.” And it was so. 1:12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 1:13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, 1:15 and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 1:16 And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, 1:18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 1:19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. 1:20 And God said, “Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens.” 1:21 So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 1:23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 1:24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 1:25 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” 1:29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day. 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2:2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 2:3 So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation. 2:4a These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. |
2:4b In the day that the LORD God made
the earth and the heavens, 2:5 when no plant of the field was yet in the
earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up — for the LORD God had
not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the
ground; 2:6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face
of the ground — 2:7 then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living
being. 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and
there he put the man whom he had formed. 2:9 And out of the ground the
LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good
for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 2:12 and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 2:13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush. 2:14 And the name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. 2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.” 2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” 2:19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 2:20 The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him. 2:21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; 2:22 and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 2:23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” 2:24 Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh. 2:25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed. |
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty, 2 who coverest thyself with light as with a garment, who hast stretched out the heavens like a tent, 3 who hast laid the beams of thy chambers on the waters, who makest the clouds thy chariot, who ridest on the wings of the wind, 4 who makest the winds thy messengers, fire and flame thy ministers. 5 Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken. 6 Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the sound of thy thunder they took to flight. 8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou didst appoint for them. |
Answer the following questions from the above texts from Genesis 1-2 and Psalm 104.
____ #. (3.1.3) The psalmist in Ps 104 interpretes the Genesis creation accounts
| a) literally. | b) poetically. |
____ #. (3.1.4) Which of the two creation
accounts in Genesis does the psalmist in Ps 104 primarily draw from in
his celebration of God’s creative actions?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.4) Which of the creation
stories develops the theme of divine order coming out of chaos?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 | c) Both accounts |
____ #. (3.1.4) Which of the two creation
stories emphasizes the creation of man in the image of God?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.4) Which of the two creation
stories possesses the greater poetical structure with repetitive phrases?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.4) Which of the two creation
stories stresses the transcendence of God?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
#. (3.1.4)
Why is it important to have both creation stories in Genesis with one stressing
God’s transcendence while the other stresses His immanence?
____ #. (3.1.4) Both of the creation stories in Genesis stress a negative divine attitude toward creation while the Babylonian Enuma Elish reflects a positive divine attitude toward creation.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.5) Which of the two creation
stories uses the name Yahweh Elohim for God?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.5) Which of the two creation
stories is the more people oriented?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.5) Which of the two creation
stories read by itself would naturally lead to conclusion that God created
everything in one day?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.5) Which of the two creation
stories jumps immediately to the creation of humankind?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.5) Which of the two creation
stories places man in the Garden?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.5) Which of the two creation
stories describes the creation of the woman?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
____ #. (3.1.5) Which of the two creation
stories stresses the immanence of God?
| a) Gen. 1:1-2:4a | b) Gen. 2:4b-25 |
a) Man’s sinfulness is due to the weakness of Eve who caused Adam to stumble.
b) Man’s pride moved him to substitute his judgment for that of God.
c) The serpent’s deception is at the root of human rebellion.
____ #. (3.1.6) 1 Timothy 2:13-14 printed
below
represents ____ of Genesis 3.
1 Timothy 2:13-14 “2:13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve; 2:14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.”
| a) a literal understanding | b) a highly interpretative view |
____ #. (3.1.7) According the the biblical
text statements, Abel murdered his brother Cain in Genesis 4 because of
jealously.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.7) Which one of the following
New Testament texts offeres an interpretation of why Cain murdered his
brother?
a) Hebrews 11:4. “By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable1 sacrifice than Cain’s. Through this he received approval as righteous, God himself giving approval to his gifts; he died, but through his faith2 he still speaks.”b) 1 John 3:12. “We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous.”
c) Jude 11. “Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain, and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain, and perish in Korah’s rebellion.”
| ___ (1) enuma elish | a) a Babylonian flood story where the god Ea instructs Utnapishtim to build an ark in order to escape the flooding of the world. |
| ___ (2) Atrahasis Epic | b) pyramid-like towers in Babylon as a part of ancient worship of deities. |
| ___ (3) Gilgamesh Epic | c) an agreement between two parties in which promises to do certain things are agreed upon. |
| ___ (4) covenant | d) a Babylonian flood story suggesting the gods flooded the world to address the problems of overcrowding and noisiness by people. |
| ___ (5) ziggurat | e) a Babylonian creation story suggesting that Marduk created mankind from the blood of the slain Kingu, lover of the goddess Tiamat. |
____ #. (3.1.9.1) In the Sumerian Gilgamesh
Epic, Utnapishtim is warned by the god Ea that the other gods are getting
ready to destroy humanity by a great flood.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.9.2) In the Babylonian
Atrahasis
Epic, the gods decide to destroy humanity because
a) humanity has become so sinful that it can no longer be tolerated.
b) people have become so numerous and noisy that they must be destroyed.
c) the gods accidently destroy humanity as innocent victims of their own wars.
____ #. (3.1.9.2) In the Babylonian
Atrahasis
Epic, Atrahasis is the central human character who escapes through
the flood just as Noah is in the Genesis flood story.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.1.9.3) The theological significance
of the Genesis flood story in 5:32-8:22 is to
a) show how powerful God is.
b) assert that God will punish human sinfulness.
c) clear the earth so that God has a fresh start with humankind.
____ #. (3.1.10) How is the Tower of
Babel story in Gen. 11:1-9 an etiology?
a) It emphasizes human pride and the consequent destructiveness.
b) It shows the power of God over human experience.
c) It helps explain why so many different languages exist among people.
____ #. (3.2.1) The shift in Genesis
at chapter twelve to the patriarchs signifies a narrowing of the scope
of the storytellers to the origins of the people who become the central
character in the rest of the Hebrew Bible.
| a) True | b) False |
#. (3.2.1)
Name the four patriarchs discussed in Genesis 12-50:
| (1) | (2) |
| (3) | (4) |
#.
(3.2.1)
Match the correct scripture reference to the patriarch being described.
| ___ (1) Abraham | a) Genesis 25-36 |
| ___ (2) Isaac | b) Genesis 12-25 |
| ___ (3) Jacob | c) Genesis 37-50 |
| ___ (4) Joseph | d) passages in Gen. 24-26 |
#. (3.2.1)
Match the correct characterization to the patriarch being described.
| ___ (1) Abraham | a) the Supplanter |
| ___ (2) Isaac | b) He especially discovered that “all things work together for good to them that love the Lord.” |
| ___ (3) Jacob | c) the hyphen between Abraham and Jacob |
| ___ (4) Joseph | d) the man of faith |
#.
(3.2.1) List the appropriate patriarch being described by the chapters
in Genesis:
(1) Genesis 12-25:(2) passages in Gen. 24-26:
(3) Genesis 25-36:
(4) Genesis 37-50:
____ #. (3.2.1.1) The dating of the
beginning of the patriarchial period in Genesis 12 is usually based upon
an association of Abraham’s journey from Ur of the Chaldees with the movement
of the Amorites from Mesopatamia into Palestine in the nineteenth and eighteenth
centuries B.C.E.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.2.1.1) The dating of the
end of the patriarchial period in Genesis 50 is usually associated with
overthrow of the Hyksos as foreign rulers of Egypt around 1550 B.C.E.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.2.1.2) The term patriarch
refers to a male head of a family, rather than a clan.
| a) True | b) False |
Gen. 15:17-21
15:17 When the sun had gone down and
it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these
pieces. 15:18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying,
“To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great
river, the river Euphrates, 15:19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites,
the Kadmonites, 15:20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, 15:21
the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.”
Gen. 17:1-21
17:1 The Sign of the Covenant
When Abram was ninety-nine years old,
the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty;5
walk before me, and be blameless. 17:2 And I will make my covenant between
me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous.” 17:3 Then Abram fell
on his face; and God said to him, 17:4 “As for me, this is my covenant
with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. 17:5 No
longer shall your name be Abram,6 but your name shall be Abraham;7
for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. 17:6 I will
make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings
shall come from you. 17:7 I will establish my covenant between me and you,
and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting
covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring8 after you.
17:8 And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land
where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding;
and I will be their God.”
17:9 God said to Abraham, “As for you,
you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout
their generations. 17:10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between
me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be
circumcised. 17:11 You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and
it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. 17:12 Throughout
your generations every male among you shall be circumcised when he is eight
days old, including the slave born in your house and the one bought with
your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring. 17:13 Both
the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money must be
circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
17:14 Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
17:15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarah
your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 17:16
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. I will bless
her, and she shall give rise to nations; kings of peoples shall come from
her.” 17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself,
“Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who
is ninety years old, bear a child?” 17:18 And Abraham said to God, “O that
Ishmael might live in your sight!” 17:19 God said, “No, but your wife Sarah
shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac.9 I will
establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring
after him. 17:20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; I will bless him and
make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous; he shall be the father of twelve
princes, and I will make him a great nation. 17:21 But my covenant I will
establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next
year.”
____ #. (3.2.2.3) Which of the three covenant accounts uses the name El Shadaai for God?
| a) Gen. 13:14-17 | b) Gen. 15:17-21 | c) Gen. 17:1-21 |
____ #. (3.2.2.2) Which of the three
covenant accounts names the promised land in greatest detail?
| a) Gen. 13:14-17 | b) Gen. 15:17-21 | c) Gen. 17:1-21 |
____ #. (3.2.2.3) Which of the three
covenant accounts names the promised land as Canaan?
| a) Gen. 13:14-17 | b) Gen. 15:17-21 | c) Gen. 17:1-21 |
____ #. (3.2.2.2) Which of the three
covenant accounts omits the promise of a large number of descendents?
| a) Gen. 13:14-17 | b) Gen. 15:17-21 | c) Gen. 17:1-21 |
____ #. (3.2.2.3) Which of the three
covenant accounts includes circumcism as a part of the covenant?
| a) Gen. 13:14-17 | b) Gen. 15:17-21 | c) Gen. 17:1-21 |
____ #. (3.2.2.2) Although the story
of the conflict between Sarah and Hagar had tragic consequences within
Abraham’s immediate family, it had no lingering effects on his descendants.
| a) True | b) False |
____ #. (3.2.2.6) Which of the Abraham
narratives was considered climatic and the divine approval of Abraham’s
profession of faith in Gen. 15:6 in Jewish interpretative history?
| a) The trip to Egypt in Gen. | b) The 3 strangers’ visit in Gen. 18 | c) The offering of Isaac in Gen. 22 |
____ #. (3.2.4.7) Which experience
brought about the name change from Jacob to Israel?
a) Buying the birthright (Gen. 25:29-34)
b) Stealing the Blessing (Gen. 27:1-45)
c) A man faces his past (Gen. 32:1-33:20)
d) Reconciliation in Bethel (Gen. 35)
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