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Decks in this class (12)

Week 1: Geography & Canon Formation
What is the bible,
Exegesis,
The method of extracting as much ...
31  cards
Week 2: Creation Stories: Genesis 1-3
Pentateuch,
Books of the pentateuch,
Moses in the pentateuch
17  cards
Week 3: Primeval History: Genesis 4-11
Two methods of biblical criticism,
Synchronic method of biblical cri...,
Diachronic method of biblical cri...
24  cards
Week 4: Ancestral Narratives: Genesis 12-50
The 3 ancestral narratives,
Themes in the ancestral narratives,
Themes in the ancestral narrative...
27  cards
Week 5: Exodus
Exodus event,
What 3 moments is the exodus even...,
What do we research to study the ...
35  cards
Week 6: Leviticus and Deuteronomy
Leviticus and deuteronomycovenant...,
The torah is expressed in both ap...,
Apodictic laws
40  cards
Week 7: Emergence in Canaan (Joshua & Judges)
What books are a part of the deut...,
What is the deuteronomistic histo...,
Explain the deuteronomistic histo...
22  cards
Week 8: Israel’s First Kings (1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings)
The rise of the monarchy,
Why are the israelites constantly...,
The strength of the philistines
35  cards
Week 9: Divided Kingdoms - The North (1 Kings, 2 Kings, Amos, Hosea)
What is the primary source for th...,
Solomon 970 931 bce,
Solomons name
34  cards
Week 10: Divided Kingdoms: The South (2 Kings, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah)
Religious crisis in the northern ...,
The rise of prophecy,
Naboth s vineyard names of people...
34  cards
Week 11: Exile and Return: Rebuilding Cultural Identity (2 Kings, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Ezra)
Kings of judah,
Judah in the 7th and early 6th ce...,
Micah of moresheth gath
44  cards
Week 12: Wisdom Literature and Theodicy (Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastates)
The restoration period,
The persian period 538 332 bce,
539 bce
34  cards

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