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Who is Abraham?
The leader who led the Hebrews from Mesopotamia to Canaan.
The rabbis made the _____ - a place of Jewish worship, more important in Jewish life.
What is a synagogue?
God promised to favor and protect Abraham's _______________, meaning his children and his the generations that would follow.
What are descendants?
Who is Moses?
A Hebrew leader/prophet
Jews were scattered among many _____, or non-Jewish, lands.
Who was Solomon's father?
King David
What did Moses give Judaism?
He gave Judaism its fundamental laws. (10 Commandments)
In the 200s CE, Jewish scholars began writing the ______, which contains oral traditions along with commentaries on the Torah.
What is the Talmud?
Judaism began with a sacred agreement, or _____ between God and Abraham.
What is covenant?
What was Abraham's original name?
Abram.
Jews believe there is only one God, a belief called _____.
What is monotheism?
The origins of Judaism and its basic laws are recorded in its most sacred text, the _______.
What is the Torah?
When was Abraham born?
He was born about 2,000 B.C.E.
The captivity in Babylon was the beginning of the _________.
What is the Jewish Diaspora?
What did Solomon build in Jerusalem?
A magnificent temple.