Deck 7: From Egypt to Sinai

Question 1

What are the elements of a Hittite suzerainty treaty? What evidence exists in the biblical for the use of these elements by the biblical writers? What is the significance of its usage for the biblical writers?

Answer 1

no answer

Question 2

What terms are typical of covenant vocabulary? What light does the vocabulary of ancient Near Eastern suzerainty shed on the biblical depiction of Yahweh's relationship with Israel?

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

Three major covenants (Noah and God, Abraham and God, Israel and God. have been discussed so far in this book. How are these covenants different from each other? How have they shaped the biblical texts and the history of ancient Israel?

Answer 3

no answer

Question 4

Discuss the original context of the Ten Commandments. Who was the primary audience for the Decalogue?

Question 5

In many ways the Ten Commandments resemble treaty forms from the ancient Near East.

Question 6

Israel was allowed to collect manna every day of the week.

Question 7

All existing suzerainty treaties come from Egypt.

Question 8

The Israelites do not leave Sinai until the book of Numbers.

Question 9

The Ten Commandments create a covenant between Yahweh and the descendants of Abraham.

Question 10

A suzerain-vassal relationship is often described in husband-wife terms.

Question 11

The Ten Commandments appear only in the book of Exodus.

Question 12

Covenant language and vocabulary applied to the relationship between the divine and humans are found throughout the ancient Near East.

Question 13

Moses is the only human who sees God in Exodus 16-24.

Question 14

The Ten Commandments express monolatry.

Question 15

How many versions of the Ten Commandments appear in the Pentateuch?

A) one
B) Three
C) two
D) four

Question 16

The Israelites stay at Sinai for nearly:

A) three months
B) one year
C) three years
D) forty years

Question 17

In addition to manna, God also provided the Israelites with __________ to eat:

A) generic fowl
B) dove
C)quail
D) rooster

Question 18

Who is credited with the establishment of the judiciary in Exodus?

A) Moses
B) Aaron
C) Joshua
D) Jethro

Question 19

The region south of Egypt known as Nubia is sometimes called _________ in the Bible.

A) Cush
B) Libya
C) Moab
D) Sinai

Question 20

The Hebrew word berît means:

A) commandment
B) covenant
C) law
D) love

Question 21

All are names of Moses's father-in-law in the Bible except:

A) Jethro
B) Hiram
C) Reuel
D) Hobab

Question 22

The ___________ source is organized around three covenants, those between God and Noah, God and Abraham, and God and Israel.

A) J
B) D
C) E
D) P

Question 23

Midian is probably located in:

A) Arabia
B) Sinai
C) Syria
D) Egypt

Question 24

Most existing suzerainty treaties contain all of the following except:

A) divine witnesses
B) a history of the relationship between the parties
C) blessings and curses
D) lengthy genealogies

Question 25

All of the following provide covenant analogues for the relationship between Yahweh and Israel except:

A) husband-wife
B) diplomatic partners
C) parent-child
D) brothers

Question 26

All of the following describe manna except:

A) seed-shaped
B) doesn't spoil
C) flaky
D) white

Question 27

The creation of the judiciary distributed Moses's authority and burden to _________ elders:

A) 60
B) 70
C) 72
D) 100

Question 28

All of the following were manifestations of Yahweh when he gave the Ten Commandments except:

A) cloud
B) earthquake
C) thunder and lightning
D) Eclipse

Question 29

Hittite treaties may include the following elements except:

A) Identification of the suzerain
B) Human witnesses to the treaty
C) Stipulations imposed on the vassal
D) Blessing for observance of the treaty

Question 30

Israel's prophetic literature frequently uses the genre of _______________, in which Yahweh sues Israel for breach of contract.

A) covenant lawsuit
B) aphorism
C) historical narrative
D) lamentation

Question 31

Deuteronomy invokes ___________________ as witnesses to the covenant between Yahweh and Israel:

A) the sun and the moon
B) the gods of the pantheon
C) the mountains and the stars
D) heaven and earth

Question 32

The Hebrew idiom usually translated "to make a covenant" literally means "to ________ a covenant":

A) mold
B) burn
C)cut
D) honor

Question 33

All of the following are considered evidence of the antiquity of the Decalogue except:

A) the presence of three different versions
B) its agrarian setting
C) the use of treaty elements
D) references to it in eight century BCE prophets

Question 34

Moses and other Israelite representatives shared a meal with god as part of:

A) the covenant ratification process
B) a test of loyalty
C) the depositing of treaty copies in the ark
D) negotiations over the covenant stipulations

Question 35

Divinely given "bread from heaven" is called_____________.

Question 36

Another name for the Ten Commandments is________________.

Question 37

The ___________ is the sign of the Sinai covenant.

Question 38

The type of treaty in which one party is superior to the other is a(n) ____________.

Question 39

A sample of ______________ is said to have been stored in the ark of the covenant.

Question 40

The set of laws that follows the Ten Commandments is called the ___________.

Question 41

The term meaning "contract" that is used metaphorically to describe the relationship between God and Israel is____________.

Question 42

The mountain of God is traditionally identified as __________ in southern Sinai.

Question 43

The type of treaty where the two parties are assumed to be equals is a(n)___________.

Question 44

____________, the territory to the east of the northeast arm of the Red Sea, is a possible location for the site of the "mountain of God."