| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
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| first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son |
Abraham
,
Ibrahim
|
| evolution or genesis of the human race |
anthropogenesis
,
anthropogeny
|
| (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another |
Babel
,
Tower of Babel
|
| effort to give scientific support for the truth of the account of creation given in the Book of Genesis |
creation science
|
| literal belief in the account of creation given in the Book of Genesis |
creationism
|
| (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings |
Noachian deluge
,
Noah's flood
,
Noah and the Flood
,
the Flood
|
| Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis |
Noah
|
| branch of anthropology dealing with the genesis and variation of human beings |
physical anthropology
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