Quiz! for formative assessment

Community narratives blend into a complex past. Individual stories of slaves combined to form the story of Israel.

A Mesopotamian parallel to Noah (i.e., the character who survived the flood).

Third wave feminism aided in the creation of womanist interpretations of the biblical text

What is the "sin of Sodom?"

What is the earliest piece of evidence for what people called "Israel?"

When a simple story becomes a story of divine salvation (the Flood story).

Examines how assumptions about gender contribute to the meaning/interpretation of the biblical text.

The study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment.

What is God's threefold promise to Abraham?

with each retelling, stories take on new dimensions and themes as authors shape the content to fit their present.

Whose perspectives of Abraham is Kirkegaard refuting?

Creative space where an interpreter enters a text, particularly the gaps in a text, and fills them with missing details.

Figure of speech- substitutes an inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something negative.

First wave feminism began in the late 1800s when The Woman's Bible was written by whom?

The goal of feminism is to "smash the Patriarchy."

Resists "self-evident" identity categories as the default interpretive stance.

Who from our lessons is considered a "womb slave"?

Reads people, events, and objects in the Jewish scriptures as forerunners for people or events in the New Testament

A story that mirrors the events of the story of Sodom. This story helps us to better interpret the “sin” of Sodom.

The stories of creation and the flood form the Patriarchal History

Examines experiences of African American women and their engagement w the biblical text.

What text was used to justify slavery in the Antebellum South?

When a group of people experience things important to their existence, they often maintain collective memories