Vocabulary
Best translated as prayer shawl or head covering during prayer.
What is a Tallit?
Written law given to Moses by God at Sinai.
What is the Torah?
His love was revealed as kind.
Who was Samaritan woman at well?
Influential character in parable with widow who neither feared God or cared about people.
Who is the Judge?
Phrase to describe being generous.
What is having a "good eye?"
A jar or vase used to collect a woman's tears.
What is a Lachrymatory?
Greek translation of Hebrew Bible that Greeks used as their main text and abbreviated as "LXX."
What is the Septuagint?
Jesus love revealed as fierce.
Who was woman against the wall or with Alabaster jar?
Leprous Pharisee who failed to extend cultural hospitality to Jesus.
Who was Simon?
Formal term for how disciples learned from their rabbis.
What is "sitting as the feet?"
Often translated from Hebrew as "justice" and shows a special function in God's economy.
What is Mishpat?
The oral traditions of rabbis that explained and expanded the Torah.
What is the Mishnah?
The love of Jesus was unprecedented.
Who was the widow with Chutzpah?
Started Egyptian school around 200 BC whose teachings were characterized by harsh treatment toward slaves and women.
Who was Ben Sira?
A term that means being stubborn.
What is "stiff necked?"
Means "righteousness" and serves to make relationships right.
What is Tzedakah?
The added contributions and commentaries added by scribes and teachers to the Mishnah.
What is the Talmud?
Example of Jesus's epic love for a woman that resulted in her atonement from sin.
Who was the woman on the steps or woman caught in adultery?
Rabbi who lived approximately 110 BC to AD 10 who took a more generous and lenient approach to Scripture.
Who was Rabbi Hillel?
What is "walking in the dust?"
Formal term that refers to an established educational system for learning that focuses on studying Torah or Talmud.
What is Yeshiva?
What Jews call the Old Testament that they divided into Law, Prophets, and Writings.
What is the Tanekh?
Inclusive love of Jesus that allowed female followers or disciples.
Who was woman of Bethany or Mary sister of Martha and Lazarus?
A First Century rabbi who helped hold together the Pharisaic Judaism who took a more conservative and stern view of Scriptures.
Who was Rabbi Shammai?
Indication that people were obedient to God.
What is "to hear?"