Midterm Review

Question 1

Julius Welhausen

Answer 1

Biblical scholar, wanted to prove the Torah was written by “R” in 500 BCE in Babylon

Question 2

Maximalist theory

Answer 2

Tries to prove and find truth in as much of the Torah as is possible

Question 3

Minimalist theory

Answer 3

Believes the Torah is not true

Question 4

Gezer calendar

Answer 4

Written by a student, agricultural calendar

Question 5

What is a tel?

Answer 5

Artificial hill made of layers of destroyed civilizations

Question 6

2 major civilizations in ancient near east

Answer 6

Egypt, Mesopotamia

Question 7

Primary source

Answer 7

source of information that was created at the time under study

Question 8

Secondary source

Answer 8

about an event or period of time, but was created later

Question 9

Via Maris

Answer 9

trade route

Question 10

Shard

Answer 10

Ancient piece of pottery

Question 11

4 topographical areas of Israel- East to West

Answer 11

Afro-Syrian Rift, Central Mountain Range, Shfela, Coastal plain

Question 12

Furthest east topographical area of Israel

Answer 12

Afro-Syrian rift

Question 13

Furthest west topographical area of Israel

Answer 13

Coastal plain

Question 14

4 Ds for a town in ancient near east

Answer 14

Defense
Dine (food)
Drink (water source)
Drive (trade routes)

Question 15

Jericho

Answer 15

First city conquered by Israelites in Canaan

Question 16

First city conquered by Israelites in Canaan

Answer 16

Jericho

Question 17

Ruth

Answer 17

First convert, but illegal

Question 18

First convert, but illegal

Answer 18

Ruth

Question 19

Yehoshua

Answer 19

Took over from Moshe, conquered Jericho

Question 20

Took over from Moshe, conquered Jericho

Answer 20

Yehoshua

Question 21

Gilboa

Answer 21

Mountain overlooking ancient battleground

Question 22

Mountain overlooking ancient battleground

Answer 22

Gilboa

Question 23

Judges

Answer 23

Military leaders who helped free Jews

Question 24

Military leaders who helped free Jews

Answer 24

Judges

Question 25

Shaul

Answer 25

First king, tall and timid

Question 26

First king, tall and timid

Answer 26

Shaul

Question 27

Shmuel

Answer 27

First prophet, kids incompetent

Question 28

First prophet, kids incompetent

Answer 28

Shmuel

Question 29

First prophet

Answer 29

Shmuel

Question 30

Shilo

Answer 30

First capital of Jews in Israel

Question 31

First capital of Jews in Israel

Answer 31

Shilo

Question 32

Yevus

Answer 32

Older name for Jerusalem

Question 33

Who was descended from Tamar and her father-in-law

Answer 33

Boaz

Question 34

Who married Hagar and Sarah?

Answer 34

Abraham

Question 35

Who married Sarah?

Answer 35

Abraham

Question 36

Who married Hagar?

Answer 36

Abraham

Question 37

Who was the child of Hagar and Abraham?

Answer 37

Yishmael

Question 38

Who were Yishmael's parents?

Answer 38

Hagar and Abraham

Question 39

Child of Abraham and Sarah, married Rivka

Answer 39

Yitzhak

Question 40

Who did Abraham almost sacrifice?

Answer 40

Yitzhak (Isaac)

Question 41

Who were the children of Yitzhak and Rivka?

Answer 41

Esav and Ya'kov (Esau and Jacob)

Question 42

Who did Leah and Rahel marry?

Answer 42

Ya'kov (Jacob)

Question 43

Who was Haran's child?

Answer 43

Lot

Question 44

Sanctuary built in the desert

Answer 44

Mishkan

Question 45

What was the Mishkan?

Answer 45

Sanctuary built in the desert

Question 46

What period had increasing assimilation and periodic conquest at the hands of other nations?

Answer 46

Judges

Question 47

As the period of the Judges continued, the quality of the population and the judges got **better or worse**

Answer 47

worse

Question 48

Hesed

Answer 48

kindness

Question 49

Peah and Leket are:

Answer 49

Agricultural laws Peah = not harvesting corners of fields Leket = following behind harvester, picking up wheat dropped, they cannot pick up the wheat

Question 50

Best judge, friend of Barak, female

Answer 50

D'vora

Question 51

Gid'on

Answer 51

Night time commando, did not want to be king

Question 52

Long haired judge

Answer 52

Shimshon

Question 53

Son of prostitute gang leader judge

Answer 53

Yiftah (Jeftath)

Question 54

Mida k'neged mida

Answer 54

What goes around comes around

Question 55

Biblical period dates

Answer 55

1750 BCE-586 BCE

Question 56

Who destroyed the 1st temple in 586 BCE?

Answer 56

Babylonians

Question 57

When did the Babylonians destroy the 1st temple?

Answer 57

586 BCE

Question 58

Which temple did the Babylonians destroy in 586 BCE?

Answer 58

First

Question 59

What was Kenneth Kitchen trying to prove, and how was he trying to prove it?

Answer 59

Kitchen was trying to prove the Torah as a primary source by proving the truth of something that "R" in 500 BCE would not have known

Question 60

Pshat

Answer 60

Simple meaning

Question 61

Remez

Answer 61

hints

Question 62

Drash

Answer 62

Interpertations

Question 63

Sod

Answer 63

Secret meanings

Question 64

Yetzer hatov

Answer 64

inclinations to do good

Question 65

Yetzer hara

Answer 65

inclinations to do bad

Question 66

Myth

Answer 66

stories about people or events, can be fact or fiction but are always true

Question 67

Who is the father of Moav and Ben Ami?

Answer 67

Lot

Question 68

Who married 2 Hittite women>

Answer 68

Esav

Question 69

Whose name was changed to Yisrael?

Answer 69

Ya'kov

Question 70

Korban

Answer 70

sacrifice

Question 71

Yibom

Answer 71

If a woman is widowed and has no children, the brother of her dead husband is commanded to marry her

Question 72

King who slayed Goliath

Answer 72

David

Question 73

King who conquered Yerushalayim

Answer 73

David

Question 74

What tribe was David from?

Answer 74

Yehuda

Question 75

Who was David's uncle?

Answer 75

Yoav

Question 76

Who was Batsheva?

Answer 76

Uria's wife, woman David saw bathing and got pregnant

Question 77

Who was David's prophet?

Answer 77

Nathan

Question 78

Approximate year of Exodus

Answer 78

1250 BCE

Question 79

Approximate time period of Judges

Answer 79

1200-1000 BCE

Question 80

3 Regalim

Answer 80

Pesach, Shavout, Sukkot

Question 81

The overwhelming power of which civilization served as the reason for the kings of Yisrael and Aram to create a confederation?

Answer 81

Ashur

Question 82

Which civilization did not join the confederation with Aram and Yisrael?

Answer 82

Yehuda

Question 83

King of Yehuda who had Yishayahu (Isaiah) as his prophet

Answer 83

Ahaz

Question 84

How many "lost tribes" of North Israel are there- destroyed by Ashur in 721 BCE

Answer 84

10

Question 85

What does the word Messiah mean?

Answer 85

Anointed

Question 86

Christian and Jewish interpretations of Messiah

Answer 86

Christian- Non-human being who will defy the laws of nature Jewish- real human leader

Question 87

Where do the names of the months in the Jewish calendar come from?

Answer 87

Babylonian gods

Question 88

Which prophet wrote the "dry bones" thing

Answer 88

Ezekiel

Question 89

Who liberated the Jews in 538 BCE

Answer 89

Cyrus

Question 90

When did Cyrus liberate the Jews?

Answer 90

538 BCE

Question 91

Cyrus was king of -----

Answer 91

Persia

Question 92

What was the war between the Hellenists and the Jews?

Answer 92

Maccabean revolt

Question 93

Who did the sacrifices?

Answer 93

Cohenim

Question 94

4 sects of Judaism in second temple period

Answer 94

Zealots, Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes

Question 95

Sinat Chinam

Answer 95

Causeless hatred

Question 96

Mikveh

Answer 96

Bath to become spiritually pure

Question 97

4 gospels

Answer 97

Mark, Matthew, Luke, John

Question 98

Synoptics

Answer 98

Mark, Matthew, Luke