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mound of buried cites
tel
TERM 2
walls of the hole
DEFINITION 2
balk
TERM 3
pick, turea, patish, trowl, brushes, hand pick
DEFINITION 3
tools
TERM 4
broken pottery
DEFINITION 4
shard
TERM 5
tear jar
DEFINITION 5
psalm 58, david
pottery piece with writing
ostracon
TERM 7
stone
monument
DEFINITION 7
stele
TERM 8
any object altered by human skill
DEFINITION 8
artifact
TERM 9
most reliable method
DEFINITION 9
pottery shapes
TERM 10
chemical dating method
DEFINITION 10
carbon 14
9th cent. a.d. copiers 1000 yrs later name
means transmitters vowel contribution
counted verses, words and every letter
masoretes
TERM 17
truth and information made known by divine
self disclosure
DEFINITION 17
revelation
TERM 18
process by which the revelation was written
down
DEFINITION 18
inspiration
TERM 19
the enlightenment of the holy spirit on the
mind of the believer as he reads the inspired
revelation
DEFINITION 19
illumination
TERM 20
created from nothing
DEFINITION 20
creatio ex nihilo
hebrew, used only when-creatio ex
nihilo
bara
TERM 22
hebrew (day) used nearly 1700 times in
O.T.
DEFINITION 22
yom
TERM 23
"son of"
DEFINITION 23
ben
TERM 24
"living soul"
DEFINITION 24
nephesh hayah
TERM 25
enuma elish
DEFINITION 25
babylonian version of creation
These clay tablets are a primary source of
information concerning the cultural and social
life in northern Mesopotamia
nuzi tablets
TERM 32
menes
DEFINITION 32
first pharaoh of united egyptian kingdom
TERM 33
mari tablets
DEFINITION 33
20,000 cuneiform tablets were found in the excavation of the
city of Mari on the Euphrates River. The texts deal largely
with commercial and political administrative matters
TERM 34
sinuhe
DEFINITION 34
The Tale of Sinuhe is considered one of the finest works of
Ancient Egyptian literature.
TERM 35
hyksos
DEFINITION 35
The Hyksos (Egyptian heqa khasewet, "foreign rulers"; Greek
, , Arabic: , shepherd kings) were an Asiatic people who
invaded the eastern Nile Delta, in the Twelfth dynasty of
Egypt initiating the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient
Egypt.
palastine
a geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the
Jordan River, and various adjoining lands.
TERM 37
shephelah
DEFINITION 37
a designation usually applied to the region in south-central
Israel of 10-15 km of low hills between the central Mount
Hebron and the coastal plains of Philistia within the area of
the Judea
TERM 38
negev
DEFINITION 38
desert and semidesert region of southern israel
TERM 39
beni hassan
DEFINITION 39
A tomb painting found in Beni Hassan, 170 miles south of Cairo,
which pictures a clan of 37 Semites, a broad racial classification
which would include the Hebrew race, who were traveling to Egypt
with merchandise for trade. They give us an authentic picture of
the way people looked and dressed during the patriarchal times in
Palestine. The men have black hair and pointed beards, and are
wearing very colorful clothes. Pictured with them are their
weapons, their musical instruments, their tools, their donkeys, and
their children.
TERM 40
ebla tablets
DEFINITION 40
these 15,000 clay tablets have yet to tell their full story, but
they have excited Biblical archaeologists because of the
many Biblical parallels they contain. Names are recorded in
them such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Esau, David, and Saul.
ilku
trees had to be mentioned b/c hittites were concerned about
trees being cut down
TERM 47
eliezer
DEFINITION 47
head servant of abraham-he wanted to adopt him
TERM 48
lot
DEFINITION 48
abrahams nephew-went to sodom
TERM 49
hagar
DEFINITION 49
abrahams lesser wife
TERM 50
ishmael
DEFINITION 50
hagar and abrahams son
isaac
sarah and abrahams son
TERM 52
rebekah
DEFINITION 52
issacs wife
TERM 53
jacob
DEFINITION 53
rebekah and issacs wife
TERM 54
laban
DEFINITION 54
jacob and esaus uncle
TERM 55
rachel
DEFINITION 55
jacobs wife
hittites
The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a
language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European
language family and established a kingdom centered at
Hattusa (Hittite ) in north-central Anatolia (on the Central
Anatolian plateau) ca.
TERM 62
primogeniture
DEFINITION 62
Primogeniture is the right, by law or custom, of the first-born
to inherit the entire estate, to the exclusion of younger
siblings.
TERM 63
levirate custom
DEFINITION 63
marriage of next older brother to widowed sister in law
TERM 64
hatshepsut
DEFINITION 64
may be the princess who raised moses
TERM 65
amarna tablets
DEFINITION 65
an archive of correspondence on clay tablets, mostly
diplomatic, between the Egyptian administration and its
representatives in Canaan and Amurru during the New
Kingdom.
tetragrammaton
The term Tetragrammaton (from Greek ', meaning "[a word]
having four letters" ) refers to the Hebrew name of the God
of Israel YHWH ( used in the Hebrew Bible.
TERM 67
yahweh/ jehovah
DEFINITION 67
to be-i am
TERM 68
moses
DEFINITION 68
adopted by pharaohs daughter highly educated killed an
egyptian fled to midian saw burning bush-theophany-god in
visible form
TERM 69
hammurabi code
DEFINITION 69
This monument, in the form of a boundary stone standing
about 8 feet high, has at its top a picture of King Hammurabi
receiving from the sun god, Shamash, a scepter, a ring, and
the laws which then follow on the rest of the surface.
TERM 70
casuistic law
DEFINITION 70
if-then laws, narrow third person, broad and specific
