BIBL 410 Weekly Study Questions 5 Liberty University answers complete solutions

BIBL 410 Weekly Study Questions 5 Liberty University answers complete solutions. NAME: WEEKLY STUDY QUESTIONS 5 Abrahamic Covenant 1. The first eleven chapters of Genesis possess a Universal and Cosmic emphasis. (Davis, 155) 2. With the introduction of Abraham, Moses begins to Particularize redemptive history. (Davis, 155) 3. How has archaeology verified the historicity of chapters 12–14 in Genesis? a. Davis explains that the settlement patterns discovered by Glueck in Transjordan indicate that the events of Genesis 13 occurred somewhere between 2000 and 1900 B.C. Glueck discerned a drastic decrease in the density of occupation between the nineteenth and thirteenth centuries B.C., and he links this decrease with the destructive campaign mentioned in Genesis 14.10 Furthermore, the names of the four eastern kings mentioned in Genesis 14 appear to fit the approximate period 2100 to 1700 B.C. (Davis, 159) 4. What are the three possible locations for Ur? a. Urfa, a city twenty miles northwest of Haran called Edessa by the Greeks. b. Ura, a town northeast of Haran which was under the Hittites’ control. c. Southern Mesopotamia at Tell al-Muqayyar (Arabic for “mound of pitch”). (Davis, 164)