One similarity between the two accounts of creation in Genesis is that they both use the personal name for God, ‘YHWH’.

The Hebrew word ‘Elohim’ literally means

Moses has to flee Egypt after he:

The Sinai Covenant can be said to parallel which type of ancient Near Eastern document?

Which part of a typical ancient Near Eastern vassal treaty is NOT found in the Sinai Covenant?

In an ancient Near Eastern vassal treaty, the purpose of the ‘stipulations’ section was to:

Studying a literary work ‘synchronically’ means studying it

One reason for calling the stories of Israel’s ancestors ‘legends’ is that the names they give to the characters were not genuinely ancient, but were instead names commonly in use at a later time, when those stories were actually written.

In the Sinai Covenant, the Lord’s assertion that “I…brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Exod. 20:2) would count as which part of a vassal treaty?

The goal of the academic approach to the Bible is to