Some Basic Stories of the Faith

Please be sure that you can say something intelligible about each of the following characters or stories from the Old and New Testament:

Old Testament

• Genesis: Story of Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah, Tower of Babel, Call of Abram (and Sarai) and God's covenant with them, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph
• Exodus: How did the Israelites come to be in Egypt, the Call of Moses/Burning Bush
• Prophets: Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah
  

New Testament

• Baptism of Jesus, The Temptation in the Desert, The Transfiguration, The Parable of the Fig Tree, The Parable of the two Sons (aka The Prodigal Son)
  

Please use the comment section to describe what you know or to list figures/stories that you do not know.