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What is the name of the northern kingdom that breaks away when Israel splits?
What is the Kingdom of Israel?
Who is Israel named after?
Who is the Patriarch Jacob (Israel)?
Which group did not believe in an afterlife?
Who are the Sadducees?
What is the name of the weekly day of rest and worship for the Jews?
What is the sabbath?
What is the term that refers to how many gods ancient Israel was supposed to worship?
What is monotheism?
What is the name of the Sea on the southwestern edge of Israel where the Essenes lived and wrote their scrolls?
What is the Dead Sea?
Who led the Israelites out of Egypt and gave them the 10 Commandments?
Who is Moses?
Which group of Jews desired to revolt against the Romans?
Who are the Zealots?
In what year did the Romans destroy the Temple?
When is 70 AD?
What is the acronym and original Jewish name of the Hebrew Bible?
What is the TaNaKh?
What is the name of the capital of Israel?
What is Jerusalem?
Which Israelite King wrote most of the Psalms?
Who is David?
Which group of Jews was known for prayer, fasting, and living in isolation?
Who were the Essenes?
In what year did the Israelites settle in Canaan?
What is 1200 BC?
Besides Judaism, what two other religions claim to be Abrahamic?
What is Islam and Christianity?
What is the name of the Phoenician city on the coast of ancient Israel?
What is Tyre?
Who saved the Jews from Haman wiping them out?
Who is Esther?
Which group of Jews had Rabbis and wrote the Talmud?
Who are the Pharisees?
What holiday was later associated with the legend of the long-lasting holy oil?
Hanukkah?
What does the "T" in TaNaKh stand for and what does it mean in English?
What is the Torah ("Instruction/Teaching/Law")?
What are 3 other names for the land of Ancient Israel?
What is the Levant, Canaan, and Palestine ('Palestina')?
After which Israelite king did the kingdom split?
Who is King Solomon?
Which two groups of Judaism went extinct with the destruction of the Second Temple?
Who are the Zealots and the Sadducees?
What are the Hebrew names of two important high holy days in Judaism?
What is Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah?
Why did Jews begin to meet in synagogues?
What is the destruction of the Second Temple and the end of the sacrificial system?