Clt exam 2 questions with complete
solutions
Creation in Genesis roles they play - Answer-
Bereshith - Answer-"In the beginning". These are the first lines of the Hebrew creation
myth. Cf Enuma Elish
shemesh - Answer-Hebrew word for sun. It isn't used because it resembles the names
of sun gods
Yareah - Answer-Hebrew word for moon. It isn't used because it resembles the names
of moon gods
tehom - Answer-deep sky that separates heaven and earth
Hebrew for deep or abyss. It refers to great deep of primordial waters of creation`
cosmocentric - Answer-
geocentric - Answer-earth, sea, plants are the most important creation, part of
cosmocentric
anthropocentric - Answer-creation of humans, order of creation, earth, man, garden,
animals, woman, woman created from man, anthropomorphic God (walks, potter,
father)
tree of knowledge - Answer-Not allowed to eat from this tree if you do you fie. Serpent
says that you will be more like god if you eat from it. Makes them more human when
they eat from it, they realize they're naked. Gain knowledge of good and evil
eve eats it
tree represents immorality
tree of life - Answer-Tree of Life gave immortality. God curses Adam and Eve from the
tree of life. So does that mean that they were immortal before?
itsavon - Answer-meaning pain and toil. God curses women with painful childbirth and
men with having to work for what they want
adam - Answer-meaning human/man, it's a pun in genesis about adam being made of
clay
adamah - Answer-hebrew word for dirt or soul. In the book of Genesis this is where
adam comes from
, pun - Answer-
false etymology - Answer-
adam - Answer-first man
eve - Answer-first woman
serpent - Answer-trickster. smooth talker. no real reason for anything, not good or bad.
God punishes by making it crawl on its belly forever. Could be considered a culture
hero: somehow advances civilization , now have to practice agriculture and wear
clothes
yahweh vs the sea - Answer-(in these passages Yahweh was depicted as a storm
god)a) storm god vs. primordial waters (or sea)1. cf. Marduk vs. Tiamat; cf. Baal vs.
Yam2. combat myth3. battle of order vs. chaos(sea)b) Yahweh vs. the sea1. defeats
sea (cf. Marduk, Baal)2. storm god (cloud, thunder, lightning)3. sea a. Leviathanb.
Rahabc. river, serpent, dragon (cf. Yam)4. "Rahab's helpers" (Job 9.13)
-Yahweh - Answer--Yahweh is the actual name of their god, god of Israelites/Hebrews -
YHWY - we don't know what the vowels are because of the fact that they didn't write
vowels-During the Persian era (after 538), they thought that a Jew was unholy enough
to call their god by Yahweh-They then began to call him adonay (lord)Therefore YHWY
= lord
Leviathan - Answer-Leviathan is a sea monster referenced in the Tanakh, or the Old
Testament. The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature.
In literature it refers to great whales, and in Modern Hebrew
Rahab - Answer-A sea dragon the Yahweh had to defeat in the book of Job
Utnapishtims flood myth in the epic of galgemash culture - Answer-
Utnapishtim - Answer-King of Shuruppak, name meaning he found life. Warned by Ea
about the flood being sent and survived.
Atrahasis - Answer-Babylonian flood hero, king of city of Shurupakk; name means extra
wise; survives flood with help of Ea
Shuruppak - Answer-the city where Atrahasis ruled over; where first plague was sent;
ancient Sumerian city on banks of Euphrates; Atrahasis
Epic of Gilgamesh - Answer-Utnapishtim; Babylonian; poem; c. 1200 BCE; Akkadian;
standard version: c. 1200; 12 cuneiform tablets (11th tablet about Utnapishtim and the
Flood)
solutions
Creation in Genesis roles they play - Answer-
Bereshith - Answer-"In the beginning". These are the first lines of the Hebrew creation
myth. Cf Enuma Elish
shemesh - Answer-Hebrew word for sun. It isn't used because it resembles the names
of sun gods
Yareah - Answer-Hebrew word for moon. It isn't used because it resembles the names
of moon gods
tehom - Answer-deep sky that separates heaven and earth
Hebrew for deep or abyss. It refers to great deep of primordial waters of creation`
cosmocentric - Answer-
geocentric - Answer-earth, sea, plants are the most important creation, part of
cosmocentric
anthropocentric - Answer-creation of humans, order of creation, earth, man, garden,
animals, woman, woman created from man, anthropomorphic God (walks, potter,
father)
tree of knowledge - Answer-Not allowed to eat from this tree if you do you fie. Serpent
says that you will be more like god if you eat from it. Makes them more human when
they eat from it, they realize they're naked. Gain knowledge of good and evil
eve eats it
tree represents immorality
tree of life - Answer-Tree of Life gave immortality. God curses Adam and Eve from the
tree of life. So does that mean that they were immortal before?
itsavon - Answer-meaning pain and toil. God curses women with painful childbirth and
men with having to work for what they want
adam - Answer-meaning human/man, it's a pun in genesis about adam being made of
clay
adamah - Answer-hebrew word for dirt or soul. In the book of Genesis this is where
adam comes from
, pun - Answer-
false etymology - Answer-
adam - Answer-first man
eve - Answer-first woman
serpent - Answer-trickster. smooth talker. no real reason for anything, not good or bad.
God punishes by making it crawl on its belly forever. Could be considered a culture
hero: somehow advances civilization , now have to practice agriculture and wear
clothes
yahweh vs the sea - Answer-(in these passages Yahweh was depicted as a storm
god)a) storm god vs. primordial waters (or sea)1. cf. Marduk vs. Tiamat; cf. Baal vs.
Yam2. combat myth3. battle of order vs. chaos(sea)b) Yahweh vs. the sea1. defeats
sea (cf. Marduk, Baal)2. storm god (cloud, thunder, lightning)3. sea a. Leviathanb.
Rahabc. river, serpent, dragon (cf. Yam)4. "Rahab's helpers" (Job 9.13)
-Yahweh - Answer--Yahweh is the actual name of their god, god of Israelites/Hebrews -
YHWY - we don't know what the vowels are because of the fact that they didn't write
vowels-During the Persian era (after 538), they thought that a Jew was unholy enough
to call their god by Yahweh-They then began to call him adonay (lord)Therefore YHWY
= lord
Leviathan - Answer-Leviathan is a sea monster referenced in the Tanakh, or the Old
Testament. The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature.
In literature it refers to great whales, and in Modern Hebrew
Rahab - Answer-A sea dragon the Yahweh had to defeat in the book of Job
Utnapishtims flood myth in the epic of galgemash culture - Answer-
Utnapishtim - Answer-King of Shuruppak, name meaning he found life. Warned by Ea
about the flood being sent and survived.
Atrahasis - Answer-Babylonian flood hero, king of city of Shurupakk; name means extra
wise; survives flood with help of Ea
Shuruppak - Answer-the city where Atrahasis ruled over; where first plague was sent;
ancient Sumerian city on banks of Euphrates; Atrahasis
Epic of Gilgamesh - Answer-Utnapishtim; Babylonian; poem; c. 1200 BCE; Akkadian;
standard version: c. 1200; 12 cuneiform tablets (11th tablet about Utnapishtim and the
Flood)
