Exam 5: The Ancestors of Israel

The period from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries bce during which Egypt was ruled by dynasties originally of Semitic origin is called the:

___________ is a term often used in poetry for the northern kingdom of Israel as A whole.

Esau is the ancestor of the:

The firstborn son of Jacob is:

___________ received a revelation from Yahweh while pregnant and also initiated a scheme to get the inheritance for her favorite son.

Abraham's Egyptian wife is ________.

Gad and Asher are sons of _________ and ___________.

Explain the value of form criticism for biblical scholarship. What textual problems or inconsistencies can it help to clarify? How does form criticism compare to source criticism?

The language of the texts discovered at Ras Shamra is called_________.

Jacob's first wife was:

The phrase "be fruitful and multiply" is characteristic of the P source.

God's threefold promise includes__________, __________, and _________.

Jacob's oldest son was___________.

The Israelites were the only ancient people to practice circumcision.

The term el shadday means ___________________.

The critical method that looks at small blocks of text to identify earlier Stages of a text's development is called:

The sign of the covenant between God and Abraham was:

Genealogies are an expression of relationships between groups.

The binding of Isaac is also called:

Simeon and Levi lose their inheritance because of Bilhah.