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A time to remember the Exodus
What is Passover
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people who are said to reveive messages from God to be taught to others
What is a Prophet
100
Found in caves by boys looking for a lost goat
What is Dead Sea Scrolls
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The Bible traces the Hebrews back to this man
Who is Abraham
100
Name of the Jewish house of worship
What is a synagogue
200
Honors the rededication of the Second Temple during the revolt of the Maccabees
What is Hanukkah
200
Rebellious Jews who didn't think Jews should answer to anyone but God
What are Zealots
200
a moral set of laws written on stone tablets
What is the Ten Commandments
200
The story of this person is told in the Bible as an example of how people should treate their family members.
Who is Ruth
200
Word used to describe the scattering of the Jews outside of Canaan
What is Diaspora
300
Celebrates the beginning of a new year in the Jewish Calendar
What is Rosh Hashanah
300
Religious teachers
What are rabbis
300
The five books where Jews recorded most of their laws
What is the Torah
300
This language was created by the Jews
What is Yiddish
300
This ended the event at Masada
What is with the Jews taking their own lives
400
The Day that Jews ask God to forgive their sins.
What is Yom Kippur
400
Man God promised to make his descendants into a mighty nation
Who is Abraham
400
another name for the Hebrew Bible
What is Tanakh
400
This prompted the pharaoh to free the Hebrews
What is a series of plaques that struck Egypt
400
Judaism influenced the development of Islam because the first people to follow Islam believed they were descended from this man
What is Abraham
500
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur make up what is known as this
What is the High Holy Days
500
Name of the man that lead the people out of Egypt
Who is Moses
500
Commentaries and lessons for everyday life
What is the Talmud (TAHL-moohd)
500
Mosaic laws are different from the Ten Commandments because they guide the daily lives of these people
What are Jews
500
The fact that a Hebrew woman's husband would be chosen for her by this person proves that Hebrew women had few rights.
What is her father