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- allegory
- A figurative mode of representation conveying a meaning other than the literal. ex: Genesis creation (seven literal days? not necessarily the point of the story: point is to show human relationships with God)
- Babel
- Name used for Babylon, story of people and tower, balal means "to confuse or confound"
- Documentary Hypothesis
- Different texts have different authors, one can see difference coming from the same thing, "quilt"
- Etiology
- Story that attempts to explain something. ex: tower of babel and why everyone speaks different languages
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Story is very similar to Genesis: similarities [family/animals, landed on mountain, sent dove on SEVENTH day and nothing, then swallow and nothing, then raven and something!] differences: [polytheistic and no reason for flood]. Oldest known literature, from Middle east but then beyond, on clay tablets, legend of one of the kings of Babylon
- Ex nihilo
- "Out of nothing"--creation from nothing.
- Felix Culpa
- "happy fault" or "fortunate fall." Original sin. because of sin Jesus came and hope of heaven
- Genesis
- First book of the Tanakh, Torah, and Christian Bible
- Hamartiology
- Branch of Christian study concerning sin and original sin.
- Priestly Source
- First creation account in Genesis, organized and ordered, very OCD and precise
- Primeval
- Of or relating to the earliest ages--humans and/or world
- Yahwist
- Not the same as Priestly source, second creation account in Genesis, LOTS of anthropomorphism, more about the metaphorical meaning rather than the literal, "the LORD"