Geography of Ancient Israel
The river that runs north-south through the Levant.
What is the Jordan River?
This Israelite king killed Goliath and wrote the Psalms.
Who is David?
This holiday commemorates the beginning of the Exodus.
What is Passover?
Another name for the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Tanakh?
The capital of Israel.
What is Jerusalem?
The inland sea southeast of Jerusalem.
What is the Dead Sea?
This Israelite king built the First Temple and wrote the Proverbs.
Who is Solomon?
This holiday commemorates the Maccabean victory over the Greeks.
What is Hanukkah?
The last remains of the Second Temple.
What is the Western Wall?
The northern kingdom after Solomon's death.
What is the Kingdom of Israel?
The Phoenician city northwest of the Levant.
What is Tyre?
This Israelite is the Patriarch of the Jewish culture and religion.
Who is Abraham?
This holiday commemorates Esther's intervention for the Jewish people with the Persians.
What is Purim?
The oldest written copies of the Tanakh.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The southern kingdom after Solomon's death.
What is the Kingdom of Judah?
What is Canaan?
This Israelite led the Jewish people out of Egypt and gave them the 10 Commandments.
Who is Moses?
This is the Jewish New Year.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
This empire tried to force the Jews to worship the Greek gods.
What is the Seleucid Empire?
The name given the Promised Land by Europeans during the Crusades.
What is the Levant?
This Israelite convinced a Persian king to spare the Jewish people.
Who is Esther?
This holiday is also known as the Day of Atonement.
What is Yom Kippur?
Commentary on the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Talmud?
This empire crushed the Zealot rebellion and destroyed the Second Temple.
What is the Roman Empire?