A) Two contrasting models B) Three distinct models C) Four contrasting models D) Only one model
A) Temple model B) Agon model C) Logos model D) Combat model
A) Logos model B) Numerological model C) Speech model D) Agon model
A) Isaiah, Job, and Psalm 74 B) Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus C) Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel D) Kings, Chronicles, and Psalms
A) Marduk B) Tannin C) Rahab D) Leviathan
A) River B) Coiled one C) Dragon D) Sea
A) Sea B) River C) Dragon D) Arrogant one
A) Wind of God B) Arrogant one C) Coiled one D) Great deep
A) Coiled one B) Formless void C) Primordial ocean D) Arrogant one
A) Wind B) River C) Dragon D) Sea
A) By vanquishing the water deities B) By resting on the seventh day C) By speaking dormant matter into existence D) By building the Jerusalem Temple
A) Day 4 B) Day 3 C) Day 2 D) Day 1
A) Land animals and humans B) The Sun and Moon C) Light D) The sky
A) Day 1 B) Day 7 C) Day 5 D) Day 3
A) The Sun and Moon B) Light C) Animals of the air and sea D) The sky
A) Day 6 B) Day 5 C) Day 4 D) Day 3
A) The sky B) The Sun and Moon C) Land animals and humans D) Vegetation and seas
A) Created the Sabbath B) Rested from his work C) Spoke the cosmos into existence D) Created land animals
A) The merism B) The Sabbath C) The firmament D) The deep
A) Random and accidental B) Purely mathematical data C) Numerological and symbolic D) Strictly factual and historical
A) Human rebellion B) Divine completion C) Material destruction D) The primordial ocean
A) Fourteen words B) Thirty-five words C) Twenty-one words D) Seven words
A) Fourteen words B) Seven words C) Thirty-five words D) Twenty-one words
A) Fourteen words B) Twenty-one words C) Thirty-five words D) Seven words
A) 21 times B) 14 times C) 35 times D) 7 times
A) 35 times each B) 21 times each C) 14 times each D) 7 times each
A) 14 times each B) 21 times each C) 35 times each D) 7 times each
A) The Tabernacle B) Solomon's Palace C) The Tower of Babel D) The Ark of the Covenant
A) The Enuma Elish temple B) The Temple in Jerusalem C) The primordial ocean D) The Garden of Eden
A) As a manual for military combat against sea monsters B) As a historical timeline of biological evolution C) As a description of the construction of the cosmos as God's house D) As an account of the uncreation of Israel
A) Complete chaos and darkness covered the face of the deep B) Fully ordered and populated with living creatures C) Ruled by sea monsters D) Filled with light and dry land
A) In the beginning when God created B) A wind from God swept over the waters C) The earth was a formless void D) In the beginning God created
A) Creation by speech B) Creation from chaos C) Creation by combat D) Creation from nothing
A) NRSV B) Septuagint C) Enuma Elish D) King James Version
A) It is in the grammatical construct state describing the beginning of the acts B) It explicitly means creation from absolute nothingness C) It is an absolute position indicating strict chronological time D) It translates directly to 'dragon' or 'chaos'
A) The authors of the Enuma Elish B) John Day and David Toshio Tsumura C) R. N. Whybray, Christine Hayes, Michael Coogan, Cynthia Chapman, and John H. Walton D) Marduk and Tiamat
A) Michael Coogan and Cynthia Chapman B) John Day and David Toshio Tsumura C) R. N. Whybray and Christine Hayes D) John H. Walton and R. N. Whybray
A) ruach B) təhôm C) bara' D) tohu
A) Building a literal temple in Jerusalem B) Assigning roles and functions C) Manufacturing physical matter from absolute nothing D) Defeating sea monsters in battle
A) Material creation is the only natural way of taking the text B) The text is purely numerological with no physical meaning C) The text exclusively describes assigning functional roles without matter D) The creation account was borrowed entirely from Canaanite myths
A) Ruach elohim B) Tohu wa-bohu C) Təhôm and darkness D) Heaven and earth
A) ruach elohim B) tohu wa-bohu C) creatio ex nihilo D) b'reshit bara'
A) 'Breath' or 'wind' B) 'Dragon' or 'sea monster' C) 'Primordial ocean' or 'deep' D) 'Emptiness' or 'futility'
A) The Tabernacle B) The Jerusalem Temple C) The Garden of Eden D) The desert wilderness
A) It is an ancient term for the Jerusalem Temple B) It is a Hebrew term specifically meaning absolute nothingness C) It is derived from the Babylonian goddess Tiamat D) It has no known meaning but appears related to Arabic bahiya
A) Job B) Psalms C) Jeremiah D) Isaiah
A) The return of darkness and chaos as if uncreated B) The immediate construction of the Jerusalem Temple C) The beginning of creatio ex nihilo D) A victory over the sea monsters Yam and Nahar
A) A formless void B) A mighty wind C) A primordial ocean or deep D) The spirit of God
A) The sea monster Tannin B) The prophet Jeremiah C) The goddess Tiamat D) The storm god Marduk
A) They are personified as evil gods who fight against Yahweh B) They are not personified as evil enemies, but as indications that creative work has not begun C) They are identified as the physical foundation of the Jerusalem Temple D) They are portrayed as the ultimate victors over the cosmos
A) Tohu wa-bohu, darkness, and təhôm B) Yam, Nahar, and Leviathan C) Bara', ruach, and elohim D) Light, sky, and vegetation
A) 'Form', 'void', or 'chaos' B) 'Breath', 'wind', or 'spirit' C) 'Sea', 'river', or 'dragon' D) 'Heaven', 'earth', or 'firmament'
A) The 'wind of Marduk' B) The 'hand of the Lord' C) The 'breath of Tiamat' D) The 'voice of the deep'
A) It provided biblical support for the presence of the Holy Spirit at creation B) It linked the creation account directly to the Canaanite combat myth C) It proved that the earth was originally made from absolute nothingness D) It explained the architectural layout of the Jerusalem Temple
A) "Divine sea monster" B) "Holy Spirit of the Trinity" C) "Formless and void deep" D) "Wind from God" or "great wind"
A) The Genesis flood narrative B) The story of the Jerusalem Temple C) The Canaanite myth in Psalm 74 D) The Enuma Elish epic
A) To make the waters subside B) To establish the numerological pattern C) To defeat the sea monsters D) To create light on the first day
A) By resting on the seventh day B) By speaking her into existence C) By building a tabernacle D) With his wind
A) The presence of a watery deep B) Any mention of the heavens and earth C) A cosmic battle prior to creation D) The use of the word bara'
A) As a warrior god engaged in a fierce combat with Tiamat B) As a single God whose power is uncontested, bringing order out of chaos C) As a spirit restricted by the waters of the deep D) As a builder dependent on preexisting chaotic deities
A) Tetragrammaton B) Yahweh C) LORD God D) Elohim
A) 11th century B) 17th century C) 3rd century BC D) 5th century BC
A) The Pentateuch B) The Primeval History C) The Jahwist Source D) The Achaemenid Code
A) The Elder source B) The Priestly source C) The Jahwist source D) The Persian source
A) 6th century BC B) 10th century BC C) 5th century BC D) 3rd century BC
A) The Achaemenid source B) The Priestly source C) The Mosaic source D) The Jahwist source
A) 3rd century BCE B) 1st century BCE C) 10th century BCE D) 5th century BCE
A) New Testament gospels B) Persian imperial legal codes C) Older mythologies D) Babylonian tax records
A) The Jahwist narrative B) The Priestly code C) The Pentateuch D) Primeval history
A) 6th century BC B) 7th century BC C) 10th century BC D) 3rd century BC
A) Achaemenid Empire B) Babylonian Empire C) Roman Empire D) Assyrian Empire
A) 538 BC B) 5th century BC C) 3rd century BC D) 6th century BC
A) The elders B) The priestly families C) The Jahwists D) The landowning families
A) The priestly families B) The Persian governors C) The Mosaic authors D) The landowning families
A) 5th century B) 11th century C) 3rd century D) 17th century
A) Six days B) Seven days C) Forty days D) Three days
A) Elohim B) Yahweh C) Adam D) An angel
A) Deuteronomy B) Genesis C) Leviticus D) Numbers
A) Polytheism B) Pantheism C) Monotheism D) Atheism
A) Monolatry B) Deism C) Polytheism D) Monotheism
A) Law code B) Biography C) Myth D) Epistle
A) Folklore elements B) Societal function C) Narrative structure D) Veracity
A) Canaanite literature B) Comparative mythology C) Babylonian philosophy D) Mesopotamian theology
A) Monotheistic B) Pantheistic C) Polytheistic D) Dualistic
A) Gilgamesh epic B) Enuma Elish C) Atra-Hasis epic D) Baal Cycle
A) Kingu B) Marduk C) Abzu D) Baal
A) Baal B) Tiamat C) Kingu D) Abzu
A) Polytheism B) Theogony C) Cosmology D) Theomachy
A) Pantheism B) Theomachy C) Monotheism D) Theogony
A) Dependent on humans B) Amoral C) All-powerful D) Limited in power
A) The lower waters B) Every living thing C) The cosmic ocean D) Only the heavenly bodies
A) Tiamat B) Sarah C) Asherah D) Eve
A) The Gilgamesh epic B) The Atra-Hasis epic C) The Baal Cycle D) The Enuma Elish
A) John Day B) Walton C) Maimonides D) E. A. Speiser
A) Roman law B) Greek philosophy C) Egyptian mythology D) Babylonian science
A) A sphere B) A cube C) A flat disc D) A pyramid
A) Genesis B) Exodus C) Psalms D) John
A) An underworld B) A cosmic monster C) A flat disc D) A solid bowl
A) Priestly period B) Babylonian period C) Hellenistic period D) Medieval period
A) A flat disc B) A cylinder C) A crescent D) A sphere |