Exam 7: From Egypt to Sinai

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

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

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

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

The Hebrew word berît means:

Most existing suzerainty treaties contain all of the following except:

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

The Ten Commandments appear only in the book of Exodus.

All of the following describe manna except:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Another name for the Ten Commandments is________________.

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

The Ten Commandments express monolatry.

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