True or False: The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible

True. Written by Moses.
Midrash = intense study/focus on history, lineage, and myths

In Christianity, Jesus is characterized by two of the following themes:

divinity and suffering

True or False: The Emic perspective is the scholarly perspective or outsider's perspective

False. Emic perspective is the insider or the practitioner's perspective.

True or false: According to the emic perspective, Jesus was born of a Virgin named Mary

True.

The 2 themes for the Hebrew Bible are which of the following:

Exile and Covenant

True or False: The Etic perspective is the insider or the practitioner's perspective

False. Etic is the scholarly perspective or outsider's perspective.

The given name of Abraham means which of the following:

father of the nations"
father of many nations

Which of the following is an example of a primary text:

The Bible & Quran

True or false: Passion week highlights the last week of Jesus' life including his resurrection

True.

Which of the following is NOT an example of a synoptic Gospel in the New Testament:

John.

True or False: A secondary text is a written theory by a scholar usually about a primary text.

True.

The first covenant of monotheism was which of the following:

circumcision

True or False: Jesus spoke Aramaic, but the original texts of the Gospels were written in Greek

True.

The father of monotheism is:

Abraham

Bracketing is defined as which of the following:

When you take your own personal beliefs and put them on a shelf in order to better understand and investigate ideas outside your own.

True or False: Monotheist believe in one supreme, creator God

True.

True or False: The scholars goal is to prove truth

False. Truth is not the pursuit of a scholar but rather understanding religious actors from an outside perspective.

True or False: Christianity historically grew out of the Jewish tradition

True.

In 325, the Council of Nicea specifically decided which of the following?

Christ as fully divine and fully human

True or False: Eliade believes that all men are inherently religious

True, and that this is how we make sense of the world.

True or False: Genesis contains two different creation stories

True.

True or False: A perennialist believes at the core all religions share a universal commonality

True.

True or False: Genesis 2:5, the second creation story, was written by the J source and is based on integration of older folk stories

True.

True or False: Gnostic Gospels are included in the New Testament Bible and include secret knowledge as told by Jesus

False

True or False: Myths are mainly false stories past down from generations

False. "Does not necessarily mean false.

What are key differences for the 2 creation stories told in Genesis?

-understanding God
-creation order
-gender creation

The following is an example of a gnostic gospel:

Thomas

A cosmogony is which of the following:

creation story.

True or False: Ruether believes creation stories serve as a blueprint for society

True.

True or False: Scholar Elaine Pagels aims to see a more whole picture of history and humanity by specifically studying censorship during that time (or what was was left out or silenced)

True.

An axis mundi is which of the following:

-the most sacred space
-a world center for religions
-usually a vertical structure connecting the divine to earth

Enuma Elish is a _____________ creation story

Babylonian.

According to Pagels, a dyadic view of god is understood as which of the following?

feminine and masculine

True or False: Pagels is interested in the exclusion of gendered voices within the Bible

True.

True or False: Ruether asserts that the writings of Enuma Elish and Plato's Timaeus both informed and influenced the Hebrew creation stories written in Genesis

True.

Eliade says that creation stories do which of the following:

-orient us
-distinguish the scared from the profane
-call attention to axis mundis

True or False: From an etic perspective, Allah means God in Arabic

True.

True or False: Genesis 1, the first creation story in Genesis, was written by during the Babylonian exile

True.

True or False: According to Ruether creation stories can reveal gender roles, cultural value, and social hierarchy

True.

True or False: The Quran shares some of the same biblical figures in their text

True.

A Sura within the Quran is which of the following?

a chapter

True or False: The Quran is written in a narrative form much like Bible

False. More of a poetic form.

True or False: The Quran is organized from longest to shortest Sura

True.

All of the following are one of the five Pillars of Islam except:

Ramadan.

True or False: According to the emic perspective of the Islamic faith, the Prophet Muhammad received revelations from God through the Archangel Gabriel

True.

True or False: The two main branches of Islam, Sunni and Shi'a, disagree on the correct lineage of succession after the Prophet Muhammad's death.

True.

True or False: Khadija, the Prophet's first wife was the first convert to Islam.

True.

One of the main take-a-ways for Sura 7 is to address the importance of which of the following in Islam?

modesty

True of False: Sura 7 of the Quran builds upon the already told story in Genesis coming from the Jewish tradition without having to retell it

True.

All of the following are one of the four functions of ritual except:

Connects participants to themselves.
Four functions:
Orients participants to space and time.
Connects participants to the divine.
Connects participants to a larger community.
Includes the body as an instrument for religion.

Which of the following is NOT one of Gennep's three stages of initiation rites:

liminality.
Three Stages of Initiation rites:
Re-aggregation
Transition
Separation

Death is this kind of ritual:

life cycle ritual

According to Victor Turner, the term Liminality means which of the following:

betwixt or between

Baptism is this kind of ritual:

Life cycle ritual

True or false: An example of Turner's term Communitas is when a group of stranger are stuck in an elevator and together have to join forces to get out of their situation

True.

True or false: rituals orient participants to profane spaces

False.

True or false: According to Turner, Communitas are a group of people who are in the same liminal state

True.

True or false: the cross is an example of an instrumental symbol

False.

The top of Varna is known to be twice born leaders, priests, and teachers in society are called

Brahmins

The collection of sacred texts in Hinduism are called the which of the following:

The Vedas

Sam Gill is concerned with the process and theory of:

disenchantment

All of the following make up your varnashramadharma except:

ones personal goals.
One Stage in life.
Ones social caste.
Ones Duty in life and socially.

True or false: Disenchantment demonstrates irreversibly that things are not simply what they appear to be, that one-dimensional literalism is a childish faith that one has to grow beyond

True.
Disenchantment/Rites demonstrates irreversibly that things are not simply what they appear to be, that one-dimensional literalism is a childish faith that one has to grow beyond

True or false: Moksha is process of life, death, and rebirth

False.

True or false: The atman, or the True Self/Soul, is what reincarnates into different cycles of life after death

True.

True or False: Hinduism is characterized as a polytheistic religion

False.

For Hinduism, the Ganges river is an example of which of the following:

axis mundi