History
This ancient artifact is said to be the oldest source outside the Bible that mentions David.
What is the Tel Dan Stele?
This is the Jewish feast that celebrates the deliverance of the Chosen People from bondage in Egypt.
What is Passover?
How many judges served in Israel as tribal leaders, military commanders, and enliveners of the faith?
How many of them were women?
12 Judges
1 woman; Deborah
Who is King Josiah?
King Solomon is said to have built this in Jerusalem in 957 BCE when Israel was a unified kingdom.
What is the Temple?
This covenant renewed God’s covenant with Abraham’s descendants, and established the Israelites as his Chosen People.
What is the Sinai Covenant?
True or False?
Judges covers the time when Israel is united under one King and was faithful to the God's Covenant
False!
Judges describes the time when Israel had the no king and when Israel fell into a cycle of sin against God. God then raised up leaders (judges) to save them.
This woman from the Book of Judges killed the Canaanite General Sisera by driving a tent peg into his head.
Who is Jael?
Which empire destroyed the Northern Kingdom of Israel in 721 BCE?
What is Assyria?
In the book of Joshua, Rahab the prostitute was from this city.
What is Jericho?
What time period in Israel's history does the Book of Judges cover?
(e.g. 600 BCE-200)
1200 BCE - 1000
Supplementary Hypothesis is the theory that the Torah was developed by the accumulation of redactional layers. What 3 main authors are involved in this Theory?
Deuteronomist, Priestly, and JE Author
This theory states that the ancient Israelites were Canaanites who formed their own identity and kingdom, while some experienced slavery in Egypt.
What is the Gradual Emergence theory?
This holy object was a sacred chest that housed the Ten Commandments and was eventually put in the Temple in Jerusalem. It was said to hold the presence of YHWH.
This is a nation in which God is recognized as the head of the state and its divine ruler.
This interpretation of the Bible takes into account various contexts for understanding the text. It is also known as the literal sense of scripture which is informed by scientific and historical knowledge.
What is Contextualism?
This theory states that a group of authors, during and after the reign of King Josiah, composed Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings.
One of the purposes of the Book of Joshua was to teach that God fights alongside Israel. What other lesson does this book teach?
Fidelity to God's covenant = Success
The Hebrew word for judge or ruler.
שׁוֹפֵט shofet
This ancient Egyptian artifact is said to be the oldest source outside the Bible that mentions Israel.
What is the Merneptah Stele?