Geography
This river turned to blood during the first of the ten plagues of Egypt.
What is the Nile?
Meaning 'instruction', this foundational Jewish text is made up of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
What is the Torah?
This important Torahic figure underwent a name change: a symbol of the covenant made between her husband and God.
Who is Sarah?
The Israelites crossed this body of water thanks to a miracle. The Egyptian army wasn't so lucky.
What is the Red Sea?
This son of Abraham was promised to him in a covenant with God at the age of 99.
Who is Isaac?
What is Sinai?
This text is made up of 3 sections, translating to 'instruction', 'the prophets', and 'the writing'.
What is the Tanakh?
She was a prophetess who, with her brothers, led the Israelites out of Egypt.
Who is Miriam?
The Israelite people had to wander through the desert for this amount of time, long enough for the generation of doubters to die off.
What is 40 years?
Adoptive brother to Moses, this antagonistic figure remains unnamed throughout Exodus, only being referred to as his title.
Who is Pharaoh?
This 'land' is assured to the the Hebrew people by God and is, sadly, somewhere in which Moses can never set foot.
What is the Promised Land?
As opposed to a bound book, the Jewish sacred teachings are typically found in this form.
What is a scroll?
She had three children, the youngest of which was adopted by the Pharaoh's daughter.
Who is Jochebed?
Moses' mother placed him in a basket in the nile river hoping he could escape this fate dictated to newborn Hebrews.
What is death?
He was older brother to Moses, also considered a prophet.
Who is Aaron?
Abram left Ur to form a 'new' nation in a land then known as this.
What is Canaan?
"Old Testament"? That term is outdated! We prefer to use this name.
What is the Hebrew Scriptures?
Though not the cultural or religious norm of the time, this early monotheistic tradition saw women as equal from the very beginning.
What is Zoroastrianism?
Israelites marked their door posts with lambs blood, leading the angel of death to do this to their households, giving name to a Jewish holiday.
What is Passover?
He can be found way, way, waaaaay, down the Abrahamic family tree, perhaps justifying his stepdad status to the divine incarnate.
Who is Joseph?
Now modern day Iran, this region used to be home to a flourishing Zoroastrian community.
What is Persia?
Zoroastrianism has many associated texts, the most central of which being this corpus of work containing the Gathas and the Yasna.
What is the Avesta?
She was a goddess of the Canaanite pantheon who later became known as the consort to Yahweh.
Who is Ashera?
This was a forcible relocation after the first siege of Jerusalem which may have led early Hebrews to be exposed to monotheistic ideas.
What is the Babylonian Exile?
He was Abrams oldest son, though not born of Sarah!
Who is Ishmael?