Chapter 5 Self-Quiz

The Ancestors of Israel Genesis 12–50

. Genealogies are an expression of relationships between groups.

. The Israelites were the only ancient people to practice circumcision.

. Dinah is the sister of Simeon and Levi.

. The ancestral narrative in Genesis 12-50 is linked with the primeval history that precedes and the account of the Exodus that follows it by etiologies.

. Simeon and Levi lose their inheritance because of Bilhah.

. Abraham's third wife was named:

. The critical method that looks at small blocks of text to identify earlier stages of a text's development is called:

. Abraham sends a servant to his ancestral home to find a wife for his son because of the social convention known as:

. The binding of Isaac is also called:

. Jacob's remains are said to be interred in the ancestral tomb at ____________.

. An ancient mound consisting of the accumulated deposits of successive human occupations is called a:

. The period from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-sixteenth centuries BCE during which Egypt was ruled by dynasties originally of Semitic origin is called the:

. All of the following are epithets for El in Genesis except:

. ___________ received a revelation from Yahweh while pregnant and also initiated a scheme to get the inheritance for her favorite son.

. ___________ is a term often used in poetry for the northern kingdom of Israel as a whole.

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