Bib 451 terms quiz week 5 True or False
1 Mosaic:
Having to do with
Moses and his teachings. The leader of the people of Israel out of bondage in
Egypt.
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2 Motif
An image or character
type that recurs throughout a literary work
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3 Mystery
In the New Testament,
a divine truth that is kept hidden or secret by God until the right moment for
it to be revealed.
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4 Palestine
A name first used by
the fifth century BCE historian Herodotus for the area along the eastern coast
of the Mediterranean Sea.
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5) Passover
Greek for “fiftieth,”
designating the Jewish Festival of Weeks, which came to be associated with the
giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.
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6) Pentecost
The Jewish festival
that commemorates the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
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7 Priest
The official set apart
to preside at the worship in the temple.
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8 Prophet
One who serves as an
instrument of communication between God and humans.
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9 Purim
The festival that
commemorates the delivery of the Jews in Persia from destruction.
Origins described in
Book of Esther.
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10 Rabbi
A Jewish religious
leader who studies the Torah and its associate commentaries and offers his/her
own teaching based on that study. A term of respect.
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11 Second temple
Refers to the
Jerusalem Temple from its rebuilding following the Babylonian Exile until it
was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E.
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12 Tanakh
An acronym created
from the Hebrew words for the three canonical sections of the Hebrew Bible:
Torah, Neviim, and Kethuvim. In other words, a Jewish name for the Old
Testament
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13 Temple
The house or palace of
a god; a place of sacrificial worship.
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14 Torah
Hebrew for
“instruction, teaching;” the first five books of the Tanakh.
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15 Yahweh (YHWH)
The special Israelite
name for God, which was revealed to Moses.
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