Pearson Edexcel GCSE in Biblical Hebrew

Mark Scheme (Final) Summer 2024 Pearson Edexcel GCSE in Biblical Hebrew (1BH0) Paper 2: Literature Edexcel and BTEC Qualifications Edexcel and BTEC qualifications are awarded by Pearson, the UK’s largest awarding body. We provide a wide range of qualifications including academic, vocational, occupational and specific programmes for employers. For further information visit our qualifications websites at or . Alternatively, you can get in touch with us using the details on our contact us page at Pearson: helping people progress, everywhere Pearson aspires to be the world’s leading learning company. Our aim is to help everyone progress in their lives through education. We believe in every kind of learning, for all kinds of people, wherever they are in the world. 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All marks on the mark scheme should be used appropriately. • All the marks on the mark scheme are designed to be awarded. Examiners should always award full marks if deserved, i.e. if the answer matches the mark scheme. Examiners should also be prepared to award zero marks if the candidate’s response is not worthy of credit according to the mark scheme. • Where some judgement is required, mark schemes will provide the principles by which marks will be awarded and exemplification may be limited. • When examiners are in doubt regarding the application of the mark scheme to a candidate’s response, the team leader must be consulted. • Crossed out work should be marked UNLESS the candidate has replaced it with an alternative response. Paper 2 Literature – mark scheme All candidates are expected to answer in English. Answers in Biblical Hebrew will not be credited, except where the Biblical Hebrew is necessary for a complete illustration of the answer. However proper nouns may be transliterated. Section A: Set text 1 Question number Answer Mark 1 AO2 Award the mark for: • Anyone scared/trembling ACCEPT ALL SYNONYMS (1) Question number Answer Mark 2 AO2 Award the mark for: • 22 000 (1) 3 AO2 Award 1 mark for each of the following to a maximum of 2 marks: • By lapping up the water (like a dog)/lying down on their stomachs to drink (1) • By kneeling (1) (2) Question number Answer Mark 4 (a) AO2 Award the mark for the correct root: שוב • (1) 4 (b) Award the mark for the correct root: לקק • (1) Question number Answer Mark 5 AO3 Award 1 mark for each of the following to a maximum of 2 marks: • He should return in the morning (1) • The root צפר comes from the Aramaic word for ‘morning’ (1) • Those who were asked to return were to stay the night and return only in the morning so they would be less conspicuous and not embarrassed(1) (R’ Dovid Altschuler) • By staying the night, they would also be able to see the victory and take part in the next stage (Malbim)(1) • The root also comes from the word meaning ‘bird’ as according to this explanation these soldiers would swoop down like birds on the fleeing Midianites (1) (Malbim) • Those afraid should ‘fly away’ from the word meaning ‘bird’ (1) • Accept answers relating to the meaning of “go around” (2) Question number Answer Mark 6 AO2 Award 1 mark for each of the following to a maximum of 2 marks: • G-D did not want the Israelites to attribute victory to their own prowess (1) • If there were only a small number of Israelites fighting a large number of the enemy, it would be clear that the victory was miraculous (1) • G-D wanted only the most righteous Israelites to fight (1) • Kneeling is reminiscent of idol worship; those who did not kneel to drink were considered the most righteous and thus the most suitable to fight (1( • Accept: to remove those who were “afraid” due to their sins (1) OR to remove those whose fear would break the army’s morale (1) (2) Question number Answer Mark 7 AO2 Award the mark for: • Gideon/Gidon. ACCEPT Jerubaal/Yerubaal. (1) Question number Answer Mark 8 AO2 Award 1 mark for each of the following to a maximum of 2 marks: • On his peaceful return (from battle) (1) [Must mention “in peace” or similar] • He would smash their tower (1) [accept any synonym of destroy e.g. “cut down” the tower] (2) Question number Answer Mark 9 (a) AO2 Award the mark for: • Of/(plural) construct (1) 9 (b) AO2 Award the mark for: • )Characteristic of( Hifil (perfect) (1) Question number Answer Mark 10 AO3 Award one mark for each of the following, to a maximum of two marks: • The word חרס means ‘sun’ (1) • Before/once the sun had risen (1) • Before the sun had set/while the sun was still high in the sky (1) • From the far east where the sun rises (1) • From the ‘clay ascent’ (a place) (1) from חרס meaning ‘earthenware’ (1) • Accept an accurate translation of ֵ֖לה ֲע ַמ ְל ִֽמ. ie ascent/slope NOT just from root עלה to go up (1) (2) Question number Answer Mark 11 AO3 Award one mark for each of the following, to a maximum of three marks: • As punishment: Gideon had asked the men of Penuel for food for his soldiers and they had refused (1) • By refusing food, the men of Penuel were asserting that Gideon’s victory was not complete/showing a lack of faith in him and in the L-rd (1) [accept a ‘quote’ from the dialogue with the men of Succoth e.g. “are the Midianites in your hands that we should give you bread” or similar] • (They refused to assist because) they placed their faith in their tower (rather than in G-D) as an effective defence against enemy invasion/against Midianite revenge (1) Do not accept: “to make them scared” (3) Question number Answer Mark 12 AO2 Award the mark for: • Army/soldiers of Abimelech/Avimelech (1) Question number Answer Mark 13 AO2 Award the mark for: • Mayor/Ruler of Shechem Accept “One of Avimelech’s officers/ his lieutenant” (etc or similar) - do not accept “commander/general of the army” (1) Question number Answer Mark 14 AO2 Award the marks for: • You are seeing the shadow of the mountains(1) (must state or paraphrase that it is “what you see”) • It appears to you as if there are men (1) (2) Question number Answer Mark 15 AO2 Award the marks for: • Conjugation/binyan: nifal • Tense/aspect: Imperative. Accept: infinitive absolute (2) Question number Answer Mark 16 AO3 Award 1 mark for each of the following content points up to a maximum of 3 marks: • Zebul has earned Ga’al’s trust: (He is the one to whom Ga’al turns when he thinks he can see the approaching army) (1) • Zebul starts off by discounting the threat (1) but when he realises that Ga’al can see the army he immediately begins to show his true colours ‘so go and fight with them’ (1) /incites Ga’al to go and fight with them (1) • By the end, it is Zebul who banishes Ga’al from Shechem (1) (while Abimelech himself returns home) Award 1 mark for each of the following language points up to a maximum of 3 marks: • Reversed word order (emphasis on the noun clause as it precedes the verb) when Zebul discounts the threat ‘it is the shadow of the mountains’ (that you can see) (1) • הנה – he gets a shock when he realises that he has been betrayed (1) • Rhetorical question/Dramatic phrase ֥פֹוא א יה ֵּ֨ ַא פיך.ֵּ֨ ‘Now where have your plans led you?!’ (1) Repeats Ga’al’s own words back to him: “You said ’who is Abimelech that we should serve him’ ”(1) • עתה – “now” go and prove yourself, make good your assertion that you have nothing to fear from these people (1) עתה נא צא emphatic words (1) • ‘These are the people that you rejected’ despite his apparent support of the plan (1) • Dramatic word ‘ֶרׁש ג, ְי ַו ’; not only was the rebellion crushed, but Zebul effectively banned Gaal and his family from even settling ‘ֶבת ֥ש ֶ מ. ’ in Shechem. 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