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Mosaic Laws
The Torah
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible
Commentaries
100
The laws about the foods they eat and how they prepare them.
What is Mosaic laws?
100
It's the most sacred text of Judaism.
What is the Torah?
100
Prophets
What are the people who are said to receive messages from god to be taught to others called?
100
Short wisdoms.
What are proverbs?
100
A set of commentaries, stories, discussions, folklore
What is the Talmud?
200
The people that still follow the Mosaic laws.
What is Orthodox Jews?
200
A Jewish house of worship.
What is a synagogue?
200
Book of Daniel
What is the title of the book that tells about a prophet named Daniel who lived during the Babylonian Captivity?
200
"A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches."
What are King Solomon's famous words?
200
The scholars studied the Jewish and Torah laws for centuries
How long have the scholars studied the Jewish and Torah laws?
300
Jews cannot eat shellfish and pork.
What are the two foods the Jews cannot eat?
300
The history of the Jews until the death of Moses.
What does the Torah include?
300
Tanach
What is another name for the Hebrew bible?
300
Poems or songs to praise God.
What are psalms?
300
The writings of the Talmud were produced between the times 200 A.D. and 600 A.D.
When were the writings of the Talmud produced?
400
The meat has to be killed and prepared in a special way in order to be eaten.
How do the Jews eat meat?
400
They use special pointers mark their places in the text.
What do readers do to read the Torah?
400
The Hebrew Bible.
What group of writings is divided into three parts?
400
Proverbs.
What is in the final part of the Hebrew Bible?
400
The scholars write commentaries to explain some laws because some laws are too hard to understand
Why did the scholars write commentaries?
500
The third group of Jews that fall between the other two groups.
What are Conservative Jews?
500
In five books known as the Torah.
In what did the ancient Jews record most of their laws in?
500
The Torah.
What are the first three parts of a group of writings in the Hebrew Bible called?
500
Book of Psalms.
What is in the third part of the Hebrew Bible?
500
Many Jews consider the Talmud writings second only to the Hebrew Bible
What place do the Jews consider the Talmud writings to the Hebrew Bible?