Exam Prep The Ancestors Of Israel Chapter 5

Chapter 5: The Ancestors of Israel

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Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. How do the Ugaritic texts and other Near Eastern documents influence our understanding of the ancestral narratives? What can these parallels tell us about the religion of the ancestors of Israel?

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. How does the Joseph narrative fit into the overall framework of Genesis? What themes are consistent with the rest of the ancestral narratives, and how is the Joseph cycle different? How can you explain these differences?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. Explain the value of form criticism for biblical scholarship. What textual problems or inconsistencies can it help to clarify? How does form criticism compare to source criticism?

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. How have scholars used the various names, titles, and epithets for God that appear in Genesis 12-50 to understand the religion of the ancestors? What can we learn about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s religious beliefs by analyzing the use of divine names in addition to statements about God/gods?

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. Genealogies are an expression of relationships between groups.

a. True

H False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. The phrase “be fruitful and multiply” is characteristic of the P source.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. The Israelites were the only ancient people to practice circumcision.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. JE is the source most concerned with the establishment of shrines.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 05

5. Dinah is the sister of Simeon and Levi.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 06

6. The Joseph narrative is corroborated by Egyptian evidence.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 07

7. The ancestral narrative in Genesis 12-50 is linked with the primeval history that precedes and the account of the Exodus that follows it by etiologies.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 08

8. Isaac is the founder of a shrine at Shechem.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 09

9. Simeon and Levi lose their inheritance because of Bilhah.

a. True

b) False

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 10

10. “El” is a common word for God in the ancient Near East.

a. True

b) False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. Abraham’s third wife was named:

a. Sarah

b. Keturah

c. Bilhah

d. Hagar

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. Esau is the ancestor of the:

a. Edomites

b. Moabites

c. Canaanites

d. Ammonites

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. The critical method that looks at small blocks of text to identify earlier

stages of a text’s development is called:

a. redaction criticism

b. tradition history

c. source criticism

d. form criticism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. Abraham departs from ________after his father’s death.

a. Terah

b. Haran

c. Shechem

d. Megiddo

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 05

5. Abraham sends a servant to his ancestral home to find a wife for his son because of the social convention known as:

a. monogamy

b. bigamy

c. exogamy

d. endogamy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 06

6. All of the following are important locations in northern Israel except:

a. Jerusalem

b. Penuel

c. Bethel

d. Shechem

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 07

7. The binding of Isaac is also called:

a. Melech

b. etiology

c. Aqedah

d. toledot

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 08

8. The scholar who developed form criticism was:

a. Wellhausen

b. Gunkel

c. Kirkegaard

d. Schaeffer

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 09

9. Jacob’s remains are said to be interred in the ancestral tomb at ____________.

a. Hebron

b. Shechem

c. Beer Sheba

d. Jerusalem

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 10

10. All of the following are portrayed as being descended from ancestors with sexually perverse morals except the:

a. Ammonites

b. Moabites

c. Ishmaelites

d. Philistines

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 11

11. An ancient mound consisting of the accumulated deposits of successive human occupations is called a:

a. ras

b. tell

c. midden

d. context

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 12

12. Jacob’s first wife was:

a. Leah

b. Rachel

c. Bilhah

d. Rebekah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 13

13. The period from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries bce during which Egypt was ruled by dynasties originally of Semitic origin is called the:

a. Hyksos Period

b. New Kingdom

c. Third Intermediate Period

d. Iron Age I

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 14

14. Jacob’s youngest son is:

a. Joseph

b. Dan

c. Zebulun

d. Benjamin

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 15

15. All of the following are epithets for El in Genesis except:

a. Elyon

b. Olam

c. Roi

d. all of the above

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 16

16. The sign of the covenant between God and Abraham was:

a. circumcision

b. a rainbow

c. land

d. the sabbath

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 17

17. ___________ received a revelation from Yahweh while pregnant and also initiated a scheme to get the inheritance for her favorite son.

a. Leah

b. Rebekah

c. Rachel

d. Sarah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 18

18. The foundation of the shrine at Beersheba is connected to both:

a. Isaac and Jacob

b. Abraham and Isaac

c. Abraham and Jacob

d. Jacob and Joseph

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 19

19. ___________ is a term often used in poetry for the northern kingdom of Israel as

a whole.

a. Manasseh

b. Judah

c. Ephraim

d. Dan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 05 Question 20

20. The firstborn son of Jacob is:

a. Reuben

b. Judah

c. Simeon

d. Levi

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 01

1. Isaac’s oldest son is named___________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 02

2. God’s threefold promise includes__________, __________, and _________.

a. land, descendants, blessing

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 03

3. The term el shadday means ___________________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 04

4. The language of the texts discovered at Ras Shamra is called_________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 05

5. Abraham’s Egyptian wife is ________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 06

6. Gad and Asher are sons of _________ and ___________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 07

7. Joseph’s two sons are _____________and ___________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 08

8. Many elements of Genesis 12–50 have parallels in the Ugaritic epic__________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 09

9. Isaac’s wife was named ___________.

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Title: Chapter 05 Question 10

10. Jacob’s oldest son was___________.