old testament = Hebrew bible
also called the Hebrew word Tanakh =entire Hebrew bible
-1st 5 books = Torah (law)
"laws of moses" the law
Talmud-commentary of the Torah

semitic - designation for ppl living in Palestine area.

Tanakh (3 parts)
-Torah
-Prophets
-writings

1)Why does Yaweh flood the earth?
He sees evil in ppl. this is all because of the garden of eden, ppl become bad.

-Canaan cursed becuase son of Noah Ham makes fun of his nakedess. shows example of corproate responsibility.

-The reason ppl speak different languages depicts the anthropomorphic view of God that he fears ppl beoming like him and coming together to build a tower up to heaven.

Cicumsision
-Covenant of circumscision
-God wil make Abraham a mighty nation
-promised to circumsise male decendants
-protestants beleive that all old rituals dies when Christ died on the cross.

Sodom and Gomorrah
-God appears in human form
-God haggles w/Abraham
-gets lectured by him
sacrafice of Isaac