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| According to the Ugaritic Ba'al Epic, the god Ba'al was slain by _______ |
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| According to the Ugaritic Epics, El's wife was _______ |
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| The craftsman-god at Ugarit was ________ |
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| Osiris was the husband of _______ |
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| Osiris' brother was ______ |
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| According to the Ugaritic Ba'al Epic, the god Ba'al slew ____ |
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| According to Enuma Elis, Marduk created the world with the body of the slain __________ |
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| According to Enuma Elis, humanity was created from, among other things, the blood of _______ |
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| According to the Kirta Epic (Keret Epic), Kirta made a vow to ________, but he forgot his vow and was punished. |
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| According to the epic of Gilgamesh, the friend of Gilgamesh is named _______. He was slain by ______ |
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| Enkidu was slain by Enlil |
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| According to the epic of Gilgamesh, what mortal survived the flood and was granted immorality? |
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| According to the Aqhat epic, Aqhat's father was the wise _____. |
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| Ishtar is the Babylonian name of a goddess. Her Sumerian name is _________. |
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| What does the abbreviation JBL mean? |
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| Journal of Biblical Literature |
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| What does the abbreviation CBQ mean? |
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| Catholic Biblical Quarterly |
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| What does the abbreviation NEA mean? |
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| What does the abbreviation BASOR mean? |
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| Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research |
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| What does the abbreviation RB mean? |
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| What does the abbreviation JSOT mean? |
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| Journal for the Study of the Old Testament |
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| What does the abbreviation HTR mean? |
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| Harvard Theological Review |
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| What is the term of a word that only occurs one time in a text? |
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| Who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls? When? |
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| Muhammad Ed-Dheib (A Bediu Shepherd) in 1947 |
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| How many caves with scrolls in them have been found at Qumran? |
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| What parts of the OT were written in Aramaic? |
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| Genesis 31:47, Jeremiah 10:11, Ezra 4:8-6:18 and 7:12-26, Daniel 2:4-7:28 |
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| The Ugaritic texts were discovered at Rash Shamra in what year? |
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| Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple in what year? |
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| The second temple was built in _____ and destroyed in ______. |
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| What does the abbreviation IEJ mean? |
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| Israel Exploration Journal |
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| The Northern Kingdom of Israel fell to the army of _________ king of _________ in the year ________ |
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| Shalmaneser V and Sargon II Kings of Assyria in the year 722/721 BCE |
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| The Southern Kingdom of Judah fell to the army of ____________ king of ________ in the year _______ |
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| Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon in the year 587/586 BCE |
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| The Letter of Aristeas purports to have been written in _________ (name city) and recounts a story about the origins of the Greek translation of the Pentateuch during the reign of __________ |
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| Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II |
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| Name five books that are part of the Old Testament apocrypha. |
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| Wisdom of Solomon, Tobit, Judith, Baruch, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Bel and the Dragon, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras |
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| The Vulgate is a Latin translation of the Bible done by _________. |
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| What is the term used to describe a piece of broken pottery with writing in ink on it? |
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| BHS is based on the Masoretic manuscript known as the _____________ codex |
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| What does the Latin phrase "Lectio brevior" mean in textual criticism? |
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| The shorter reading is normally preferred. |
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| Which scholar has argued that the LXX began as an "ad hoc" translation project, analogous to that of the Aramaic Targums. |
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| Which scholar has argued that the LXX began as an "organized" translation project? |
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| The Peshitta is written in _________ |
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| H. Gunkel's "Form Geschichte" was dependent on the analyses of German folktales by ___________ |
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| Canonical Criticism is often connected with _______ and ________ (Name the two scholars discussed in class) |
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| The first temple was built during the reign of ________ and was destroyed in _______ by the Babylonian king _______ |
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| during the reign of Solomon, destroyed in 586 BCE, by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar |
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| What does the name Jonah mean? |
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| Which three OT books talk about Satan? What do they have in common? |
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| Job, Chronicles, and Zechariah. They were all written during the second temple period. |
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| What is the major difference between the record of David's census in 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21? |
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| In 2 Samuel 24, Yahweh causes David to take the census. In 1 Chronicles 21, Satan causes David to take the census. |
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| What is the difference between the Goliath stories in 1 and 2 Samuel? |
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| David killed Goliath according to 1 Samuel, Elhanan killed Goliath according to 2 Samuel |
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| Which rabbi put a curse on anyone who said that Song of Songs WASN'T allegorical? |
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| What does the phrase "Lingua Franca" mean? |
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| The dominate language in a region |
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| Who is one of the best scholars on the OT that teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem? |
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| Where did William Foxwell Albright teach? |
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| What two genres did Gunkel divide the Hebrew Bible into? |
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