Just the basics
Rules about human behavior, often regarded as revealed from the divine
ethics
When we were already very old, my husband and I accepted Gad’s call to leave Haran and follow God to and unknown place
Sarah (and Abraham)
The world’s oldest religion. Historians date the start anywhere between 5000 BC and 3500 BC, uncertain of the origin because it was not begun with a single person or a single act.
Hinduism
Jews rest, pray, and spend time with family from Friday evening to Saturday evening
Shabbat
He built an ark to survive the great flood God sent to earth
Noah
A systematic formulation of religious teachings in an intellectual form
doctrine
I was my father’s elder son, but my mother helped my younger brother deceive my father, and so he received the family blessing
esau
The religion of a small and historically, less significant, this became the philosophical underpinning of much of western thought.
Judaism
Jews follow religious dietary laws by which foods they can eat, and how food is prepared
Kosher
God called this man to leave his homeland and promised to make him the father of a great nation
Abraham
Forms and orders of ceremonies that connect the person with the divine these often mark life passages
ritual
I was deceived by a serpent in the garden of Eden and so I ate the forbidden fruit.
Eve
Founded by the prophet Muhammad in approximately the year 600, this religion grew quickly through central Asia and beyond.
Islam
Jewish teens celebrate becoming responsible for following Jewish Commandments
bar and bat mitzvah
He sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of stew
Esau
A narrative, not necessarily literally true that expresses a deep belief, particularly in the human relationship with God
myth
I followed my uncle Abram to an unknown land and settled there. When our animals and cultivations succeeded the land mass, he invited me to decide in which direction to settle.
Lot
This religion was first named about 40 A.D. in the city of Antioch. It was no longer considered a sect of Judaism.
Christianity
Jewish people celebrate their ancestors liberation from slavery in Egypt, and that the angel of death “passed over” their homes
Passover
God spoke to this man through a burning bush, and chose him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt
Moses
The process by which one culture or organization absorbs another
Syncretism
I carried the wood for sacrifice, accompanying my father, to what might have been my death, but an angel came to tell my father to keep me safe.
Isaac
This religion grew from the life and writings of Siddhartha. In encourages all people to become enlightened.
Buddhism
Jewish people like a menorah for eight nights to commemorate the rededication of the second temple in Jerusalem
Hanukkah
The place where Moses received the 10 Commandments
Mount Sinai