TNK-knock jokes
This author/authors was monotheistic, wrote around the time of Ezra, and had God creating covenants with individuals.
Priestly school
This is the section of the TNK with prophets and some of the historical books. Give the Hebrew name:
Nevi'im
This holiday has very little religious significance compared to how much cultural significance it has taken on (much like the Feasts of Saint Valentine or Saint Patrick among US Christians)
Hanukkah
Inspired by the Maccabees' success against the Greeks, Jewish and Christian zealots revolted against Rome and lost. The Romans did this ____ to punish them.
Destroy the 2nd Temple in Jerusalem
List the Abrahamic religions in order of their age:
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
This author was closely aligned with King Josiah and his reform of the Jewish cult to center around Temple worship in Jerusalem
The Deuteronomist
The English term used comes from the Greek, "synagogue," but the original Hebrew for temple is:
Shul
If your friend is Orthodox and keeping kosher, when will they shut off all electronics and focus on family and prayer?
Shabbat/Sabbath, Friday night - Saturday
Of the four ancient empires we discussed that conquered the Israelites (there were more!!!), which treated them well?
Persians
(The Babylonians enslaved them, the Greeks tried to erase their culture, and the Romans taxed them into poverty)
Christianity and Islam share a belief that Judaism lacks about death. What is it?
No afterlife
List the five books of the Torah:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
What is the symbolism of the Ner Tamid?
Eternal light - a candle or light fixture in a synagogue that represents God's presence
This is the one holiday involving fasting in the Jewish calendar and is one of the most important religious events:
Yom Kippur
This apocalyptic belief in Judaism is critical to Christian doctrine but was largely abandoned after the destruction of the 2nd Temple:
A messiah (esp. a military/political one)
If your friend calls themselves Jewish, but tells you they do not keep kosher at all and that all their synagogue services are completely in English, your friend is most likely this denomination:
Reform
In the Garden of Eden story, God is anthropomorphized and shown simplistically. This reflects the primitive thinking of this author:
Yahwist
(I will take Elohist as an acceptable incorrect answer)
While just called "writings" in English and Hebrew, the Ketuvim have this Greek name:
Sophia (wisdom)
This holiday involves more lively celebrations than other religious events in Judaism, and is a memorial of a female character from the Bible (Esther):
Purim
Your friend has a pulled pork sandwich, chicken nuggets, popcorn shrimp, and drinks a milkshake to ensure he gets a heart attack. How many kosher laws did he violate if he were keeping kosher?
4
Mixing meats
Mixing meat and dairy
Pork
Shellfish
The early Israelites were henotheistic, so they thought this about their neighbor's gods:
They were real, but not permitted for worship
Of the four kings we learned about (there were dozens), only two are considered the "Great Kings." Who are they?
David and Solomon
Saul was bad at his job, and Josiah was several hundred years removed from Solomon and not ruling over a unified Israel
I've been saying shalom to you for weeks now. None of you asked what it meant, so that tells me all of you are language sleuths who know it means this in Hebrew:
Peace
What are the two reasons Jewish holidays are on slightly different days from year to year but always around the same time?
They use a lunar calendar, not a solar one AND they have a leap month every seven years to keep holidays in the same season.
This subset of Orthodox Judaism is so traditional that some of its followers living in the US will learn Hebrew and/or Yiddish before English:
Hasidic
Why might American Jews have mixed feelings about Israel?
They might like the concept of a place where Jews will never be persecuted because they are a majority, but dissatisfied or angry about what the Israeli military/government have done/are doing.