- Jacob had two important encounters with ____________.
- God ____________ his promises to Abram in a dream and later changed his name to ____________ and his wife's name to ____________ to show that they were beginning a completely new ____________ together.
- God reaffirmed with him the terms of his ____________ with Abraham while he was on the road to ____________.
- Moses-after____________-is the main figure in the Exodus story.
- True or False? The Israelites agreed to the terms of the Sinai Covenant by building a temple with twelve pillars to represent the Twelve Tribes and by sacrificing some young bulls and splashing their blood on the people and the altar.
- Who were the stewards of the promises that God gave to Abraham?
- True or False? Chapters 1-11 contain the prehistory portion of Genesis which means that hey took place before recorded history.
- True or False? By requiring circumcision at infancy, the covenant emphasized the lifelong and eternal nature of relationship to God.
- the name of the Pentateuch literally means
- Employs an anthropomorphic view of God
- The Pentateuch focuses on the __________ __________ and their relationship with God.
- The Pentateuch includes a variety of literature including __________ laws, stories, speeches, and ___________.
- The Pentateuch is a gathering of different kinds of writings from different ____________ or sources.
- Includes census lists, genealogies, numbers, and dates
- Places great emphasis on morality and the law
- a gathering of different kinds of writings from different sources
- The patriarch Abraham is a central figure
- The first pages bible tell the ____________ about God's ____________ of the world and human beings.
- The two stories explain what ____________ wanted for all human beings and the subsequent chapters tell of the first humans' loss of ____________ through sin.
- Refers to God as Elohim and was the last of the four traditions put into writing