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

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

The word "Pentateuch" is Greek for__________________.

All include a Flood narrative except:

The specific cause of the Flood in Genesis is:

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

The dominant southern tribe in ancient Israel was___________________.

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

All are Noah's sons except:

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?

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

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

_____________________ 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."

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

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?

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

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

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

Abel's offering to God consisted of:

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

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