God's revelation unfolds before us in a progressive manner.

One's knowledge of God must be the lens by which a person understands and engages in the world and all creation.

The church is the original addressee of the Old Testament text.

The New Testament is the means by which we must read the Old Testament.

We study the ancient Near East culture and context so that we could imposed their beliefs and traditions to today's churches.

The Old Testament text bears witness to the beginning of creation and the establishment of God's kingdom on earth.

Old Testament is a witness to God's historic encounter with Israel.

The Pentateuch contains the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Ecclesiastes, and Deuteronomy.

The Torah or the Kethuvim contains narratives and laws in which Moses emerged as the central character.

____________ refers to ANE concept wherein the centrality of the oldest living member of the family matters most.

___________ has to do with tracing ancestral descent and tribal affiliation, and inheritance through the male line.

___________ is an ANE culture wheren every family and their descendants live within one house or one community.

The _____ _____ _____ is the real space wherein the entire Old Testament texts and contexts took place.

The _________ is a territory that is critically important because it serves as the land bridge between superpowers and ancient economy.

This is the concept by which covenant-making in the ancient Near East is important.

This is a legal aggreement, with privileges and responsibilities, wherein two unrelated individuals or ommunity unites.

a type of covenant or treaty between equals that is often limited to military alliances against threats and outsiders

This is a treay made between greater and lesser individuals or nations, wherein the powerful endowed land and other aids to the lesser people or nation.

It is a biblical criticism that focuses on the form and genre, and the literary setting in which a particular text arose and functioned.

_________ criticism seeks to fin the "redactors" or editors of the text to know how he/she meant us to read and understand his finished text.

_________ criticism is the growing interest in the way biblical texts have been interpreted through variety of media, including, text, image, film, and music.

It is the type of loyalty that comes from blood similar to the loyalty that a firstborn owes his father.