The Patriarchs
a binding a agreement or sacred pact, a blood oath in the ancient world
What is a covenant?
Who is Moses?
_____ led the Israelites into the Promised Land, defeated the city state of Jericho, and divided the Promised Land into regions based on the 12 tribes of Israel.
Bonus: Give the two main tribes that occupied the southern region of the Promised Land
Who is Joshua?
Bonus: what are Judah and Benjamin?
Give the correct names of the Northern and Southern kingdoms of Israel.
What is, the Northern Kingdom is Israel and the Southern Kingdom is Judah?
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Book of the Law, traditionally believed to have been written mostly by Moses.
Bonus: This book of the Torah contains information about God's covenant with Abaham.
What is the Torah?
Bonus: what is the Book of Genesis?
Jewish houses of worship where the Torah is read, the Talmud is discussed, and the Psalms are prayed.
What is the synagogue?
According to the Hebrew Bible, God made a covenant with this man to give him the Land of Canaan.
Abraham
The Jews commemorate the events of the Exodus in what yearly ritual?
What is the Passover?
After Joshua's death, twelve ______ ruled Israel until the time of the kings.
Bonus: The name of the only female Judge to rule the Israelites during this time.
Who are the Twelve Judges
Bonus: Who is Deborah?
Around 722 BCE the ___________ conquered the Northern kingdom of Israel and exiled those who lived there.
Who are the Assyrians or What is the Assyrian empire?
These prayers or hymns were believed to have been mostly written by King David, and are part of "the Writings" of the Hebrew Bible.
Bonus: This was the covenant promise made to King David in the Book of Psalms.
What are the Psalms?
Bonus: According to the Psalms, God promised David that his kingdom would never end and that there would be an eternal dynasty of kings.
Oral traditions or commentaries of the Torah written down by Jewish rabbis in the 100's CE.
The people of Israel are named after this man, whose original name was changed to Israel after "wrestling with God" (Give original name)
Who is Jacob?
According to the Hebrew Bible, God inflicted 10 ______ or hardships upon Pharaoh, causing great distress and hardship for the Egyptians as a punishment for enslaving the Israelites.
Who are King Saul, King David, King Solomon?
This is known as the time when the Jewish people were exiled under the Babylonians, from about 587 BCE to 538 BCE.
Bonus: the exile of the Jews by King Nebuchadnezzar marks the beginning of the ______ ______
What is the Babylonian Captivity?
Bonus: What is the Jewish Diaspora.
This book of the Hebrew Bible explains the ancestry of of King David by explaining the amazing story of this woman who was married to Boaz, King David's great grandfather.
Bonus: Ruth's devoted mother in law of the deceased husband of her first marriage.
What is Ruth or the Book of Ruth?
Bonus: who is Naomi?
He established Jewish centers of learning after destruction of Jerusalem to preserve Jewish teaching of the Torah.
What is Ur?
According to the Hebrew Book of Exodus, Moses and the Israelites miraculously crossed over the _____ Sea on dry land, escaping the Egyptian army.
Bonus: Historians believe the Exodus most likely happened in this century BCE.
What is the "Red" Sea?
Bonus: what is the 13th century BCE or the 1200's.
Fun fact: this could have been during the end of the reign of Ramses II.
What is, King David defeated all surrounding enemies creating stability.
The Hebrew prophets Jeremiah, Nehemiah, and Ezra oversaw this project, which was completed in 515 CE.
Bonus: this emperor of Persia ended the Babylonian Captivity and allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
What is the rebuilding of the 2nd Jewish Temple.
Bonus: Who is Cyrus the Great?
The Hebrew Writings include a collection of _____ or wise sayings believed to be from King Solomon.
What are "proverbs"?
Rabbinic Judaism developed for Jews living in _______________.
What is Diaspora?
According to the Hebrew Bible, this son of Jacob was sold into slavery in Egypt and eventually became one of Pharaoh's top advisers through an uncanny ability to interpret dreams.
Who is Joseph?
After leaving Egypt, Moses brought the Israelites to ____ _____ and gave them Ten Commandments.
Bonus: The Israelites wandered in the desert for _____ years.
What is Mount Sinai?
Bonus: What is 40 years?
The achievements of King David (List them, there are 5).
1) defeated Goliath and the Philistines
2) wrote the Book of Psalms in the Hebrew Bible
3) captured Jerusalem and made it the capital city
4) united Israel
5) expanded the border of Israel, defeated surrounding enemies, created stability
This Jewish prophet was an adviser to King Belshezaar of the Babylonians and predicted the fall of Babylon to the Persians by interpreting a mysterious writing on the wall.
Bonus: this Jewish queen was married to a Persian king and interceded to stop a plot to kill the Jews in Babylon.
Who is Daniel?
Bonus: who is Queen Esther?
The first and second books of the Maccabees, in the Hebrew Bible, describes a Jewish revolt against this empire.
Bonus: This Jewish tradition commemorates the cleansing of the 2nd Jewish Temple during the time of the Maccabees.
Who are the Greeks or the Greek empire?
Bonus: what is Hanukkah?
The Romans did these two things which led to Rabbinic Judaism.
Bonus: The name Palestine comes this word, a reference to Israel's ancient enemies.
What is: 1) they destroyed the temple in 70 CE and 2) they renamed Israel "Palestine" in 135 CE?
Bonus: who are the Philistines?