Cain, the jealous farmer, kills Abel the shepherd beloved of Yhwh.
What is the Book of Genesis?
100
This dude received the covenant from God on two stone tablets, and is credited by Jewish tradition for writing Deuteoronomy.
Who is Moses?
100
587 BC to 538 BC
When was the Babylonian Exile?
100
He tricks his older brother Esau into getting his birthright, symbolizing farmers taking over from hunters (and reversing the Cain and Abel story).
Who is Jacob?
100
A judge from the north, she is the greatest woman prophet of the Bible.
Who is Deborah?
200
Deborah defeats the army of the Canaanite king Jabin commanded by Sisera.
What is the Book of Judges?
200
This bro ruled Judah from 649-609 BC. During his reign, his court "found" the Scroll of the Law, destroyed the altars to Yhwh outside of Jerusalem (like Bethel), and lost a battle to the Egyptians.
Who is Josiah?
200
1002 BC
When did David become king of the United Monarchy of Israel?
200
The men of this city threaten to sodomize angels, and are destroyed in Genesis 10.
What is Sodom?
200
This prophet is the first to foretell a messiah, and in chapter 45 of the book named for him, that messiah is identified with Cyrus.
Who is Isaiah?
300
A young shepherd boy, David, kills the Philistine giant Goliath.
What is 1 Samuel?
300
Homie was humiliated by Deborah, who told him that a woman would kill Sisera, not his army. (Not to be confused with the president of the United States.)
Who is Barak?
300
622 BC
When did the Deuteronomists discover the Scroll of the Law?
300
Yhwh tests Abraham's faith by asking him to sacrifice this only son of Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 22.
Who is Isaac?
300
Alone of the three major later prophets, he goes into exile with the people in Babylon.
Who is Ezekiel?
400
Moses tells the people: "I set before you this day a blessing and a curse, a blessing if you obey Yhwh, a curse if you turn away from him."
What is the Book of Deuteronomy?
400
1 Kings 12 tells the story of the idolater Jeroboam's 932 rebellion against this chief, Solomon's son.
Who is Rehoboam?
400
722 BC
When did the Assyrians invade Israel and destroy the ten northern describes?
400
Near Mamre, Abraham made the covenant with Yhwh under this sort of tree, the same trees in the valley where David and Goliath fought, or above the tent where Jael slayed Sisera.
What is an oak (or a terebinth?)
400
This prophet-judge counsels the Jews not to ask for a king, but ultimately anoints Saul and later David. (The book between Judges and Kings is named for him.)
Who is Samuel?
500
A young prophet in exile with his people in Babylon remembers Judah and Samaria, the old Jewish lands, as whores who canoodled with Egypt and Assyria.
What is the Book of Ezekiel?
500
Hezekiah's Jerusalem was beseiged by this dawg in 2 Kings 18 and 19, who also crushed Babylon and built his capital at Nineveh.
Who is Sennacherib?
500
609 BC
When was Josiah, king of Judah, defeated by the Egyptians at the Battle of Megiddo?
500
In the much later Book of Chronicles, the last book of the Tanakh, Mount Moriah (where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac) is said to be the later location of this city.
What is Jerusalem?
500
Woe to the city of Nineveh, writes this early minor prophet, foretelling the fall of what mighty military force from the 7th century BC?