Study Guide for Exam #2 Religion!!!! 1. Canaanite Religion is the name of people who lived in the land before the Israelites got there.

Prophecy; 1. Prophets are social critics they critique the flaws they see in society they also lay forth an alternative and they lay out a vision of what could be Navi means English prophet and prophet means messenger or spokesperson for god 2. Classical prophets are prophets that books that bear in their very own name and there are 15 classical prophets major and minor and they differ only in the size of books 3. They did not predict events of 100 or 1000 yrs more ahead of time. They envisioned the impact that it would have on them and the society. 4. H 5. H
Hebrew poetry and wisdom literature 1. Cult refers to the outward ritual expressions of inner religious attitudes.
Passover – annual holy day spring on the calendar –commemorated the deliberation of the slaves under mosses. Yom Kippur – most solemn day of the entire year national day of forgiveness (Day of Atonement) took place 10 days after New Year’s Day. 2. Parallelism – each line of the Hebrew poetry is divided in half and the first half and the second half operate in parallel with each other. Synonymous meaning that the two halves express the same idea; or they can be antithetical, meaning they express opposite ideas.
Synonymous; the heavens are telling the glory of god; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Psalms (19; 1)
Antithetical {F} or the lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish {psalms 1; 6} 3. The psalms of Zion talk about the importance of the temple. They also speak of the joy the worshiper feels when approaching the temple. 4. Proverbs- is focused on traditional wisdom, for the most part the book is full of collections of short statements that treat some kind of