chapter 3

Question 1

Judaism, Jewish, Jew derive from the name …

Answer 1

Judah.

Question 2

Israel

Answer 2

An ethnic group that existed as early as 13th or 12th century BCE. Israel was a name given to Jacob after he had a religious encounter and to a kingdom spanning most of the levant ruled by Saul, David, and Solomon.

Question 3

Hebrew

Answer 3

The Hebrew bible usually uses the word to refer to the group of slaves who were led out of Egypt by moses in the exodus.

Question 4

Levant

Answer 4

The area along the
Mediterranean between
Egypt and Mesopotamia

Question 5

Jewish is a series of covenants between God and his people. What does covenant mean?

Answer 5

Legal agreements or contracts

Question 6

Adam

Answer 6

God makes an agreement with Adam; Adam breaks it

Question 7

Noah

Answer 7

Only Noah’s faithful family saved from a flood

Question 8

Abraham

Answer 8

After Noah’s descendants forget him, God selected Abraham to be the father of God’s people

Question 9

Another word for God

Answer 9

El Shaddai

Question 10

Patriarchs

Answer 10

The “fathers” of Judaism

Question 11

Isaac

Answer 11

Abraham’s son

Question 12

Jacob

Answer 12

Abraham’s
grandson and father of
twelve sons who became
the fathers of the twelve
tribes of Israel

Question 13

Moses

Answer 13

The greatest of all God’s prophets. Chosen by God to bring the Hebrews OUT of Egypt.

Question 14

God is also named

Answer 14

Yahweh

Question 15

The exodus

Answer 15

Moses leads his people out of Egypt through the Red Sea

Question 16

*Yahweh accompanies the Hebrews in the form of a cloud, resting on the

Answer 16

Ark of the Covenant

Question 17

Ten Commandments

Answer 17

The ten rules to live by

Question 18

Three covenants

Answer 18

1) With Noah- signed by God with the rainbow
2) with Abraham- signed by Abraham and his descendants with circumcision
3) with Moses - signed by the Hebrews following the law (sacrifice, purity, regulation, kosher)

Question 19

Joshua

Answer 19

Leads the Hebrews across the river Jordan on their invasion and conquest of Canaan

Question 20

Saul

Answer 20

First king according to the bible

Question 21

David

Answer 21

Second king; successor to first king Saul.

Question 22

Solomon

Answer 22

Third king; one of David’s sons (though not the eldest)
Solomon builds a temple where Yahweh’s presence and the Ark of the covenant are located. Beginning the first temple period of Judaism

Question 23

After Solomon, the land splits into ___ and ___

Answer 23

Israel and Judah

Question 24

Those sent into exile and lost forever are called the …

Answer 24

10 lost tribes of Israel

Question 25

* Those left behind by the Assyrians continue to worship Yahweh and eventually become the ____of Jesus’ day

Answer 25

Samaritans

Question 26

The exile

Answer 26

When the Persians conquered Babylon in 539 BCE, they allowed the Jews to return home from Bablyon if they wanted to

Question 27

Diaspora

Answer 27

the scattering of the Jewish people all over the world

Question 28

Those who returned from Babylon rebuilt the Temple and re-established worship of Yahweh there

Answer 28

The beginning of the Second temple period

Question 29

Judaism is influenced by what persian religion?

Answer 29

Zoroastrianism

Question 30

The name of the founder of Zoroastrianism is __

Answer 30

Zoraster

Question 31

Best religion

Answer 31

Behdin

Question 32

Mazdayasna

Answer 32

Mazda means worship. this is what believers of Zoroastrianism call it.

Question 33

The believers of Zoroastrianism are called __

Answer 33

Parsees

Question 34

Zoroastrianism believers believe there is only one true God named ___. He is opposed by an evil lesser divine being named __

Answer 34

Ahura Mazda Ahriman

Question 35

Final codification of the first part of Jewish scripture

Answer 35

Known as the Deuteronomistic revision

Question 36

The stories to show the pattern of history

Answer 36

1. God makes a covenant with his people 2. jews stray from God 3. God sends prophets to warn the Jews 4. The Jews refuse to listen to the prophets and repent 5. God revokes the covenant and punishes the Jews 6. the Jews repent

Question 37

Maccabean Revolt

Question 38

There are four sects in Judaism with different perspectives on what it means to be jewish.

Answer 38

Pharisees, Sadducees, essenes, zealots

Question 39

Pharisees

Answer 39

Willing to accommodate Greco-Roman culture (to a point); accepted oral Torah and the resurrection of the dead, Heaven and Hell, etc,

Question 40

Sadducees

Answer 40

Connected to the Temple priests and roman rulers; rejected the oral Torah and resurrection of the dead, Heaven and Hell, etc.

Question 41

Essenes

Answer 41

Separated from conventional Judaism in the desert to await the intervention of God or His Messiah(s), living lives of ritual purity

Question 42

Zealots

Answer 42

Political revolutionaries

Question 43

Zealots

Answer 43

Political revolutionaries

Question 44

The first roman war

Answer 44

Destruction of the temple in 70 CE (know the date)

Question 45

The second roman war

Answer 45

Jews dispersed throughout the Mediterranean area by the romans

Question 46

Synagogues are ..

Answer 46

places of worship and learning centers

Question 47

Rabbis

Answer 47

teachers who become priests

Question 48

Followers of jesus are called

Answer 48

Nazarenes. This new form of Judaism is called rabbinic Judaism.

Question 49

This effort to find a home for the Jewish people is called

Answer 49

Zionism

Question 50

The 24 books of the TANAK are

Answer 50

Law, prophets, and writings

Question 51

The law

Answer 51

- the oral torah. it is the five books of moses.

Question 52

The prophets

Answer 52

* Nevi’im * The story of God’s interactions with his people through his many prophets

Question 53

The writings

Answer 53

* Ketuvim * A variety of other types of texts including hymns (Psalms), wisdom (Proverbs), depictions of the end times (Daniel), and other stories (Job and Ruth)

Question 54

Talmud

Answer 54

* The “oral” Torah, or the instruction given to Moses at Mt. Sinai but passed on orally for centuries before finally being written down

Question 55

Orthodox

Answer 55

Strict followers of traditional Jewish law . absolutely no working on the sabbath and absolute conformity to kosher.

Question 56

Reform

Answer 56

A modern and modernizing movement with Judaism, Emphasizes Jewish ethical tradition over the obligations of jewish law.

Question 57

Conservative

Answer 57

Seen as between reform and orthodox.

Question 58

Reconstructionist

Answer 58

People who identify to be jewish but not practice their beliefs

Question 59

Asherah

Answer 59

El's consort A mother/ fertility goddess related to Ishtar later adopted as yahweh's consort

Question 60

Ba'al

Answer 60

- god of rain, fertility - his name means "lord" - the God to whom the ancient israelites turned when they lost faith in Yahweh

Question 61

Elhoim

Answer 61

Literally the gods (plural), but usually translated as God (singular)

Question 62

Yahweh definition

Answer 62

It means " I am that I am "

Question 63

YHWH Elohim

Answer 63

- often translated as Lord God, but literally means "Yahweh of the gods"