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WRT Final ExamGilamesh's friend in whom he saw the mirror of himself - -Enkidu
-This God was dismembered by his brother and cast into a river. He was
later reassembled and became lord of the underworld - -Osiris
-The name of the Goddess/wife who reassembles him was: - -Isis
-What is the title of Hesiod's book/poem on the beginnings and development
of the gods and with which religion is it associated? - -Theogony - Greek
-These types of interpretations of religion explain the meaning and origin of
religion by something non-religious, for example religion is just a pre-
scientific explanation - -Reductionism
-These types of interpretations of religion describe religious traditions by
focusing on patterns (or similarities) in religions and differences between
religions - -Phenomenology
-What is the title of the Babylonian creation story? - -The Enuma Elish
-Which of the following is the name of the chief Babylonian warrior god and
victor of the Salt Water Goddess and forces of chaos? - -Marduk
-The mesopotamian chaos Goddess of salt water was - -Tiamat
-**This word means "genesis of the Gods." It describes the genealogy of the
Gods, how they came to be - -Theogony
-The story of Ishtar (Innana) and Damuzi (Tammus) is related to which types
of rituals? - -Fertility
-In Ancient Egyptian religion the negative confession of the dead to place
where? - -In the Hall of Ma'at
-**The character in the story of Gilgamesh who survived the world flood by
building a boat and has been granted immortality by the gods - -Utnapishtim
-In the Theogony Uranus (sky) is emasculated (has his genitals cut off) by
his son: - -Chronus
-Which Greek Mystery Religion was based on the Greek myth of Kore,
Demeter, and Hades. It offered its members immortality after they were
, initiated and had beheld the secret dramas and objects in their holy temple -
-Eleusinian Mystery
-This term means that the divine beings have human characteristics - -
Anthropomorphism
-According to Jeffrey Burton Russell's discussion of "The Devil Around the
World" in Prince of Darkness, Gods are always the source of good things
while demons are the only source of evil - -False
-**Mircea Eliade in his books The Sacred and the Profane and Cosmos and
History claimed that religions help us to orient ourselves in a world that is
otherwise chaotic. What two aspects of human existence does "the Sacred"
help us to make sense of? - -Time and Space
-________ is the name of one of the chaos monsters in the Hebrew bible - -
Leviathan
-**The term that describes the movement from chaos to order in the
universe is: - -Cosmogony
-**This Hebrew word meaning "The Deep" from Genesis seems to be related
to the Babylonian name for the chaos goddess - -Tehom
-This idea means that God created the universe "from nothing" - -creation
ex nihilo
-In Creation and the Persistence of Evil, Jon Levenson claims that places in
the Hebrew Bible indicate earlier Hebrew belief in a great cosmic struggle
between YHWH and the forces of chaos. In this respect it resembles the
Mesopotamian creation stories. What is the term for the cosmic warfare? - -
Chaoskampf
-Hebrew for the plural form of God also can be taken to refer to "the One
who is all." This is the name of God in chapter one of the book Genesis. - -
Elohiim
-Hebrew word for part of the Hebrew bible called The Prophets - -Neviim
-This section of Hebrew Bible is the teaching or the law? - -Torah
-Jews and Christians agree that the story of Adam and Eve is about original
sin - -False
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