AP Literature Biblical Terms Flashcards

7233881589	manna in the desert	The miraculous food that G-d provides the Israelites while they are in the desert.	0
7233886812	The Golden Calf	In the book of Exodus the Jews build a golden calf to satisfy their need for a physical representation of G-d.	1
7233891105	Turn the Other Cheek	From the Gospel of Mathew. Part of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount where he teaches that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also (Mathew 5:38-40) Refers to non-resistance.	2
7233902821	The Blind leading the Blind	Gospel of Mathew. Jesus's parable. Where Jesus says people who don't follow his ways are like a blind man following a blind guide, both will fall into a pit.	3
7233907992	Walk on Water	Gospel of Mathew. One of Jesus' miracles that shows his divinity. Means someone is an unbelievable hero.	4
7233912486	The Good Samaritan	Parabole in the Gospel of Luke. Tells about a man who is friendly and kind to another man who is hurt. Modern day: a good person who bends over backwards to help someone else.	5
7233919791	The Prodigal Son	Gospel of Luke. Parable of the son who takes all of his inheritance, leaves his father and brother, and lives recklessly, and when he returns in need of help his father is welcoming and the brother is upset. The father shows importance of forgiveness. Modern day: Prodigal son is the wild son.	6
7233931433	Cain and Abel	Book of Genesis: Two brothers give offerings to G-d. G-d likes Abel's offering more Cain gets jealous and kills his brother. Raises the question is he guilty because G-d never said you could not kill. But implies that it is job of humans to obey natural law. Modern day: story of sibling rivalry and jealously.	7
7236121248	The Wedding Feast at Canna	The first miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John. Jesus turns water to wine when the wine runs out, delivering a sign of his glory.	8
7236132737	Sodom and Gamorah	Comes from book of Genesis, story of two city filled with sinful people. Literally meaning, the lowest of the low, unrighteous.	9
7236139190	The Death of John the Baptist	Gospel of Mathew, John is a follower of Jesus who had been arrested by a king. People thought that John was prophet. The King had a party and the daughter danced before the father and he loved it and asked what his daughter wanted and she wanted John's head. John's head on a plate is the literary allusion.	10
7236155393	The Plagues of Egypt	ten plagues that are the calamities that G-d inflicts on the Egyptians so that they will let the Israelites go.	11
7236167166	Doubting Thomas	Gospel of John. Thomas is a disciple of Jesus who doubts Jesus without a physical sign. modern day: a skeptic	12
7236172737	Song of Solomon	series of poems that are about a young women and her lover. Said to represent the relationship between Israel and G-d. Love poetry	13
7236176580	Tower of Babel	Genesis. People only had one language common speech but they decide they want to build a city that reaches the heavens. The lord came and scatters them around the earth and makes them speak many different languages in many different places so they could not finish building their tower and they would not be more powerful than G-d. Modern day: explains origins of multiplicity of languages. Associated with Hubris.	14