Quiz #1 Study Guide
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Some of these questions may take a long paragraph or even two to answer, others will require just a few sentences.
- Be able to identify the following: Pentateuch, languages of the OT and NT, list the first 12 books of the Old Testament
- Be able to identify the following sites on a map [see Map 2 at the back of your Bible as well as the index to the maps]: the rivers Tigris and Euphrates; these countries: Babylon, Assyria, Hittite Empire, Egypt, and Israel, the cities of Ur and Haran.
- Be able to retell these stories in your own words: Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Flood, Tower of Babel.
- Why might one conclude from the stories in Genesis 1-11 that it is not a historical narrative?
- How are the genealogies of Gen 5 and 11 similar in structure?
- Outline the genealogies of Gen 11:26-30 and 22:20-24.
- How does the promise to Abram override the curses imposed in Eden?
- Levenson argues that Abram's life anticipates or foreshadows that of Israel – how so?
- The election of Abram seems to be both merited and unmerited, explain.
- Making one's name great is integral to both the story of the Tower of Babel and the election of Abraham. How so?
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Anderson, G. (2006, September 07). Quiz #1 Study Guide. Retrieved February 12, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/theology/foundations-of-theology-biblical-and-historical/study-guides/quiz-1-study-guide.
