Guide for Test on Rewritten Bible

Sources

Jubilees 1–6, selections from 8–10, 15, 23

Genesis 1–3

Terms and Concepts

Early biblical interpretation

Rewritten Bible

Four assumptions (cryptic, perfect, relevant, divine)

Historical context

Universalism and particularism

Claimed authority, authorship

Eternal vs. temporal, origin of laws

Heavenly tablets

Hierarchy of angels and humans

Creation out of nothing

By‐products of creation

Two creation stories

Sabbath

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob

The number 22

Transcendence, omniscience, omnipotence

Chronology

Original sin, the fall

Gymnasium, Hellenistic assimilation

The Watchers, giants, demons

Enoch

Day of Atonement

Days of judgment, new creation

Calendars

Conquest of Canaan

Mastema and the demons

Circumcision

Conversion

Angelic princes of nations, roles of angels

Relationship to apocalypses

Social location, attitudes toward status quo

Theodicy, explanations of suffering

Noachide laws, covenant of Noah

Salvation outside the church

Longevity

Final woes

Afterlife