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This is the Jewish New Year
What is Rosh Hashana
100
This was the main food during Jesus' time.
What is bread?
100
This group was politically conservative and religiously liberal.
Who were the Pharisees?
100
The Jews were hoping for a Messiah for this reason.
What is because they had been oppressed for many years and wanted a Messiah to liberate them.
100
This man brought together the 12 tribes of Israel.
Who is David?
200
This holiday celebrates the triumph over the persecution of the Jews by the Syrian Greeks and uses oil as a significant part of the celebration.
What is Chanukah?
200
This basic source of sustenance was very scarce in Jesus' time.
What is water?
200
This group was politically liberal but religiously conservative.
Who were the Sadducees?
200
These people were threatened by Jesus.
Who were the high priests?
200
This means "one God."
What is monotheism?
300
This is made up of the first five books of the bible and contains 613 mitzvot.
What is the Torah?
300
This is how marriage came to be.
What is groom's father arranged it with a suitable girl's father.
300
These are examples of outcasts during Jesus' time.
Who were the sick, poor, women, children, prostitutes and tax collectors.
300
For this reason, the high priests were threatened by Jesus.
What is he was healing outcasts and giving them entrance into the temple. This undermined the high priests authority and power.
300
This man is considered the founder of Judaism and monotheism.
Who is Abraham?
400
One of the key elements of this holiday is recognizing the times when God is hidden.
What is Purim?
400
These were common occupations.
What is carpentry, fishing, tent making, farming.
400
A Jew was to release his slave after this many years.
What is seven?
400
Jesus treated these people with respect in a time when they were seen as second class citizens. This "depressed" the disciples.
Who are women?
400
When this man became king, the 12 tribes of Israel were divided into two main groups.
Who is Saul?
500
The separation of milk and meat stems from this holiday.
What is Shavuot?
500
In the Gospels, when something significant was happening, it would often accompany this activity.
What is the sharing of a meal?
500
This type of slave was the most expensive.
What is a Greek or Roman slave?
500
Jesus chose fishermen and sinners as his disciples. This was a sign to people of this.
What is that he would not be revolutionary that would overthrow the Roman government.
500
These are the names of the two tribes that existed when the Kingdom was divided.
What are Israel and Judah?