Quiz #2 Study Guide

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.)?
Citation: Anderson, G. (2006, September 07). Quiz #2 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-2-study-guide.
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