This term is synonymous with the words "Canaan" and applies to the entire "Promised Land."
What is Israel?
100
This book, eponymously named for Moses' successor as leader of the Israelites during the events that it describes, recounts the invasion of the Promised Land.
What is the Book of Joshua?
100
This is a situation in which a person or group is forced out of his/her/their homeland.
What is exile?
100
The Biblical strong man might be known to modern readers for his lack of self-control.
Who is Samson?
100
The Book of Judges makes repeatedly makes the claim that Israel's military defeats are a consequence of this transgression.
What is abandoning the Covenant and worship of the one True God?
200
This sea formed the Western border of the Promised Land.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
This is the shortest Biblical book covered in Chapter Five.
What is the Book of Ruth?
200
This is the practice by which grain that fell to the ground in the initial phase of harvesting is gathered.
What is gleaning?
200
The Israelites managed to defeat the previously unconquered Jericho by using these musical instruments as a form of ancient acoustic weaponry.
What are trumpets/rams' horns?
200
The Book of Judges tells multiple stories, all of which imply that this will be the result of returning to a more faithful observance of the Covenant with God.
What is peace?
300
The Israelites entered the Promised Land by crossing the Jordan River in this direction.
What is West?
300
The Books of Joshua and Judges are a part of this, but the Book of Ruth is not.
What is the Deuteronom(ist)ic History?
300
This is a collection of books written by reform-minded followers of King Josiah meant to encourage a more faithful adherence to the Covenant.
What is the Deuteronom(ist)ic History?
300
When Naomi asked her daughters in law to remain in their home country, one complied with her request, while the other did this.
What is "swore an oath to remain with Naomi."
300
This unfortunate aspect of human society receives essentially no criticism in the books studied in this chapter, and is actually an important part of some major plot lines.
What is violence?
400
This sea-faring people is believed to have invaded the Promised Land by crossing the sea that formed its Western border.
Who are the Philistines?
400
The Deuteronom(ist)ic History was written during this short period in the history of the Israelites.
What is the Babylonian Exile?
400
This is where Naomi went with her husband in order to escape the famine that was afflicting their home town.
What is Moab?
400
When the cowardly general Sisera ran away from his battle against the Israelites, he was deceived and murdered by this treacherous hostess.
Who is Jael?
400
One aspect of the Book of Judges that might concern a modern audience, but was not a problem for ancient readers, is the centrality given to one racial group, also known as this.
What is ethnocentrism?
500
Six of these provided a place of sanctuary for accused murderers in ancient Israel.
What is a city of refuge?
500
These are all the books in the Deuteronom(ist)ic History.
What are the Books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, and 1 & 2 Kings?
500
When a man died without producing any children, this Israelite law required his nearest male relative to father children with the dead man's widow, and in the dead man's name.
What is the Levirate Law?
500
The Book of Ruth takes place at the same time as some of the events recorded in this other Biblical book.
What is the Book of Judges?
500
Some parts of the books in the Deuteronom(ist)ic History should be interpreted with a skeptical view of their factuality, but this need not detract from their primary message, which is this.