Beginning of the Story

In Genesis 1, humans are created on day

• one

• three

• five

• six

In Genesis 1 God creates humans

• ex nihilo

• from the ground

• by breathing life into them

• from the tear of a crocodile

In Ancient Near Eastern creation theology

• humanity is created for relationship

• people must appease the gods

• God is universal

The Bible teaches that women are inferior to men and must serve the men

• true

• false

The Enuma Elish

• is a flood myth that celebrates the king of Uruk, who was 2/3rd divine and 1/3rd mortal

• celebrates the goddess Ishtar who proposed marriage to Gilgamesh

• is another name for the biblical flood account that saved the family of Noah

• is a creation myth that celebrates the rise of the god Marduk, god of Babylon

The Documentary Hypothesis holds that

• multiple authors or “sources” of the Pentateuch can be discovered by examining it

• the Pentateuch is an anonymous work of great literary worth

• some sources (P and D) were used in the composition but also that community writing played a large part

• Moses wrote the entire Pentateuch, including the account of Moses' death and burial

The Ten Commandments are found in

• Exodus 20 only

• Deuteronomy 5 only

• Both Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5

• Neither

Israel's patriarchs, the Old Babylonian Empire, the Middle Bronze Age, dates to:

• 3300-2000 BC

• 2000-1550 BC

• 1200-930 BC

• 539-332 BC

The Merneptah Stele

• mentions Israel for the first time

• has the earliest writing known in the Ancient Near East

• is a Babylonian account of the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus in 539 BC

• mentions Sennacherib's military campaign into the Kingdom of Judah

The book of Genesis is followed by the book of:

• Job

• Deuteronomy

• Numbers

• Exodus