Quiz #2 Study Guide
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Some of these questions may take just a paragraph; others will
require two or three.
1. The enormous power behind Judah's offer derives from the
complicated set of substitutions that it articulates.
Explain
2. How does Joseph learn from Pharaoh's dreams that domination
will not work? And how might the lessons learned from those two
dreams cast light on how the first two dreams ought to be
interpreted?
3. How are Joseph, Moses and David comparable figures in stories
of their rise to leadership?
4. Levenson speaks of the three descents and three/four ascents of
Joseph. What do they tell us about the status of the beloved
son?
5. How does the Hittite covenant formulary help illumine the way
the covenant works in the Bible?
6. Provide a full listing of the familial relationships in the
family of Jacob including all of the wives/concubines and their
respective children and their birth order.
7. How are the stories of the near death of Isaac and Ishmael
similar?
8. Why is "barrenness" so important to the author of
Genesis?
9. Levenson writes that Isaac is no longer a boy at the end of the
akedah. Explain.
10. Levenson says that Ishmael fall within the promise but outside
the covenant. Explain.
11. How are we to assess Sarah's attempt to circumvent sterility
(Levenson pp. 90ff.)?
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