History quiz term

Question 1

The Torah

Answer 1

First five books of the Hebrew bible

Question 2

Tanakh

Answer 2

Hebrew Bible

Question 3

Hebrews

Answer 3

People who speak the Hebrew language

Question 4

Israelites

Answer 4

People of Ancient Empire

Question 5

Israelis

Answer 5

Residents of contemporary Israel

Question 6

Halacha

Answer 6

Jewish Law

Question 7

Talmud

Answer 7

Book of Jewish law

Question 8

Apocrypha

Answer 8

non-canonical sources that are not part of the official cannon

Question 9

King David

Answer 9

Father of King Solomon, builds a big empire

Question 10

Bath Sheba

Answer 10

Got pregnant with Kind David’s baby while being married to a general

Question 11

Sarah

Answer 11

Abraham’s wife and mother of Isacc

Question 12

Rachel

Answer 12

Married to Jacob, mother of Benjamin and Jospeh (dies during childbirth of Ben.)

Question 13

Deborah

Answer 13

a prophet and a juge in a mostly all-male society (patriarchy)

Question 14

Hannah

Answer 14

one of the two wives married to Elkanah; mother of Sammuel who is the high Judge of Israel

Question 15

Delilah

Answer 15

Discovered Samson had power in his hair

Question 16

Rachel

Answer 16

Ran a brother and became friends with two spies from the opponents of war; she survived the raid because of it

Question 17

Yael

Answer 17

Killed Sisera in a tent

Question 18

Abraham

Answer 18

Founding father of the covenant

Question 19

King Solomon

Answer 19

Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament

Question 20

Queen of Sheeba

Answer 20

Ruled a KIngdom with high status. She also had an affair and a child with King Solomon.

Question 21

Esther

Answer 21

Esther is a young Jewish woman living in the Persian diaspora who finds favor with the king, becomes queen, and risks her life to save the Jewish people from destruction when the court official Haman persuades the king to authorize a pogrom against all the Jews of the empire. She helps save them and gets rid of the axt against the jews.message: when God seems absent, he does not abandon his people.

Question 22

Exodus

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the liberation of the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt in the 13th century bce, under the leadership of Moses

Question 23

Genesis

Answer 23

the story of how God created the world and dealt with all humanity until He initiated a personal relationship with their forefather Abraham.

Question 24

Old Testament

Answer 24

he first part of the Christian Bible that tells about the Jews, their history, and God’s words to them in the time before Jesus Christ was born.

Question 25

Adam and eve

Answer 25

our progenitors. They lived in paradise in total innocence until the serpent (the devil) enticed them to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. As punishment for their disobedience, God banished them from Paradise.the dignity of the human race, and the shame of sin which led to the need for redemption by Christ.

Question 26

Garden of Eden

Answer 26

a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil

Question 27

Monotheism

Answer 27

the doctrine or belief that there is only one Go

Question 28

Sabbath

Answer 28

a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jewish people from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.

Question 29

Ten Commandments

Answer 29

help us know how to serve God and how we should live with each other. 1. You shall have no other God’s before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy. 5. Honor your father and mother. 6. Thou shalt not kill. — God wants us to protect human life. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. — This means husbands and wives should be faithful to one another. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shall not bear false witness. 10. You shall not covet.

Question 30

Kosher

Answer 30

Land animals must have cloven (split) hooves and must chew the cud, meaning that they must eat grass. Seafood must have fins and scales. Eating shellfish is not allowed. It is forbidden to eat birds of prey. Only clean birds, meaning birds that do not eat other animals, can be eaten. Poultry is allowed. Meat and dairy cannot be eaten together, as it says in the Torah : do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk (Exodus 23:19). So Jews who follow these dietary rules cannot eat cheeseburgers for example. Often this rule is extended further, so that people wait up to six hours after eating meat before they eat dairy.

Question 31

Hager

Answer 31

handmaid of Abraham's wife, Sarah. As the story goes, Sarah was barren, so Hagar was tasked with bearing a son by Abraham-son- Ishmael.

Question 32

Ten Plagues

Answer 32

water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children. T

Question 33

First Temples

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the Temple of Solomon-long ago on the spot where God created Adam, the first man.

Question 34

Second Temples

Answer 34

a relatively modest structure built by Jews who had returned from exile in Babylon under the authority of Persian

Question 35

Passover

Answer 35

“passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt” on the eve of the Exodus the celbration of when the Israelites were freed

Question 36

Covenant

Answer 36

a contract, treaty, or a will. Each covenant established the basis of a relationship, conditions for that relationship, promises and conditions of the relationship and consequences if those conditions were unmet.

Question 37

Moses

Answer 37

a prophet who receives the Ten Commandments from Yahweh/God. Earlier in his story, he is responsible for leading the Israelites out of slavery and parting the Red Sea to let them escape from the Egyptians.