Key Terms
The worship of a single God.
What is monotheism?
He led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt.
Who was Moses?
The city King David named the capital of Israel.
What was Jerusalem?
What is Saturday?
The name of the empire that conquered Israel - the northern kingdom.
What was Assyria?
A Jewish place of worship.
What is a synagogue?
He was the first patriarch of the Jewish people. God promised him land and descendants.
What was Canaan?
The famous set of laws God gave to Moses at Mount Sinai.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The name for the Hebrews' journey out of Egypt and into the Promised Land.
What was the Exodus?
A Jewish spiritual leader.
What is a rabbi?
The second king of Israel who conquered Goliath and wrote many psalms.
Who was David?
The building where the Israelites worshiped.
What was the Temple?
The holiday that celebrates the rededication of the Temple after it had been used as a temple for Zeus. It remembers the miracle of the holy oil lasting for eight days.
What is Hanukkah?
The number of tribes of Israel.
What is 12?
What is kosher?
The third king of Israel who was known for his wisdom and for building the Temple.
Who was Solomon?
The name of the southern kingdom when the kingdom of Israel split in half.
What was Judah?
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible; also means "the law" or "the teachings".
What is the Torah?
The container holding the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written. It was kept in the Temple.
What is the ark of the covenant?
A group of allies.
What is a confederation?
When Persia conquered Babylon, he allowed the Jewish people to return to Judah.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
A mountaintop fortress where Jewish rebels famously fought the Romans. The fall of this fortress is considered the end of the rebellion and the final victory for Rome.
What was Masada?
According to kosher law, it cannot be eaten with dairy in the same meal.
What is meat?
A collection of writings by early rabbis.
What is the Talmud?