Deck 4: The Formation of the Pentateuch and the Primeval History

Question 1

Describe Wellhausen's work on the Documentary Hypothesis. What are the its benefits and limits? What aspects of his work continue to be influential, and what components are faulty?

Answer 1

no answer

Question 2

What is the curse of Ham? What is its basis in the biblical text? How has this text been used by later interpreters?

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

After reading the biblical Flood stories and pertinent sections of other Near Eastern Flood myths, what similarities do you identify? In what ways are these related sources valuable for the study of the biblical Flood narratives?

Answer 3

no answer

Question 4

The genealogies in Genesis 4-11 are complicated and highly debated by scholars. What significant differences do you see between the J genealogies in Genesis 4 and 10.8-19 and the P genealogies in Genesis 5, 10.1-7, and 11.10-26? What differing purposes do these genealogies have? How are their style and language different? Where do they seem to contradict each other? How can you explain these themes?

Question 5

A branching or segmented genealogy traces descendants in a direct line from father to firstborn son to his firstborn son and so on.

Question 6

Genesis 4-11 is made up of three separate sources.

Question 7

Wellhausen formulated the Documentary Hypothesis.

Question 8

J and E were never independent sources.

Question 9

The D and E sources may have originated in the northern kingdom of Israel.

Question 10

Most scholars believe that P predates J.

Question 11

Much of the early work conducted using source criticism occurred in Germany.

Question 12

In Genesis, Noah was the first human to plant a vineyard.

Question 13

In the P source, the Flood is caused by rain.

Question 14

The original basis for separating various strands or documents in the Pentateuch was the different names used for God.

Question 15

The view of Moses as the traditional author of the Pentateuch remain unchallenged until the ____________ century CE.

A) first
B) tenth
C) seventeenth
D) eighteenth

Question 16

All are Noah's sons except:

A) Ham
B) Canaan
C) Shem
D) Japheth

Question 17

All are names for God in the Old Testament except:

A) Yahweh
B) elohim
C) Rahab
D) el shadday

Question 18

All of the following are true of the E source except:

A) fragmentary
B) use of elohim
C) affinities with D
D) composed in the south

Question 19

All of the following are characteristic of the P source except:

A) vivid anthropomorphisms
B) stress on religious observance
C) genealogies
D) use of elohim

Question 20

Abel's offering to God consisted of:

A) gold
B) first fruits
C) first of his flock
D) nothing

Question 21

The "sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6.1-4 appear elsewhere in the Bible as all of the following except:

A) Nephilim
B) giants
C) members of the divine council
D) Anakim

Question 22

Horeb is the mountain of revelation in:

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

Question 23

The final editor of the existing sources was:

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

Question 24

The tower of Babel likely represented a:

A) necropolis
B) ziggurat
C) military fortress
D) pyramid

Question 25

The man who does not die but simply is "no more" is:

A) Enoch
B) Enosh
C) Adam
D) Lamech

Question 26

The __________________ is an ancient parallel to the diminishing length of the extraordinary life spans of primeval humans found in Genesis.

A) Atrahasis
B) Epic of Gilgamesh
C) table of nations
D) Sumerian King List

Question 27

All of the following have been proposed as additional sources to the Pentateuch
Except:

A) Lay
B) Quelle
C) Seir
D) Kenite

Question 28

The D source appears to share some connections with:

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

Question 29

The source that has lengthy descriptions of priestly vestments and sacred
Architecture and objects is:

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

Question 30

The account of the Flood in the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh epic is told by:

A) Utnapishtim
B) Enkidu
C) Atrahasis
D) Ziusudra

Question 31

Terah is the father of:

A) Sarai
B) Methuselah
C) Lot
D) Abram

Question 32

All include a Flood narrative except:

A) Enuma Elish
B) Gilgamesh
C) Genesis
D) Atrahasis

Question 33

The specific cause of the Flood in Genesis is:

A) noise
B) Noah
C) eating the forbidden fruit
D) human wickedness

Question 34

The composite genealogy of Noah's descendants in Genesis 10, arranged by
Families, languages, and lands, is called:

A) segmented genealogy
B) table of nation
C) linear genealogy
D) etiology

Question 35

Passages that are variant treatments of the same subject within a text are called______________.

Question 36

Adam and Eve's third son is named________________.

Question 37

The word "Pentateuch" is Greek for__________________.

Question 38

The first human is called adam because he is taken from the adamah, the Hebrew word for "????___________________."

Question 39

_____________________ first identified two different sources in Geneses, one of which referred to the deity as elohim, translated "God," and the other as yahweh, translated "the Lord."

Question 40

The dominant southern tribe in ancient Israel was___________________.

Question 41

The _______________________ narrative provides an explanation for the multiplicity of languages.

Question 42

An explanation of a phenomenon is also called a(n)_________________.

Question 43

In Genesis the mythological heroes of divine and human parentage are called the _______________.

Question 44

The first metalsmith was a descendant of ___________________.