beliefs and teachings: covenant: Abraham

Question 1

what is covenant between in judaism?

Answer 1

covenant agreement between god and jewish people

Question 2

what does the torah records?

Answer 2

records god making relationships with individuals and groups through a covenant

Question 3

what is marked of the making of the covenant?

Answer 3

marked by a special sign

Question 4

what did abraham find?

Answer 4

judaism

Question 5

what is abraham often called as?

Answer 5

father

Question 6

what is abraham son issac and grandson jacob are called?

Answer 6

called the patriarchs which they are the physical and spiritual ancestors of the jewish people

Question 7

what was abraham?

Answer 7

shepherd by trade and came from Ur Mesopotamia which is a modern-day Iraq

Question 8

at the time, what did people belived in?

Answer 8

believed in many gods (polytheism)

Question 9

how was Abraham the first person to teach that there is only one god?

Answer 9

tradition says his father made idols but questioned this

Question 10

what does the torah about abraham?

Answer 10

that god commanded abraham to leave his homeland behind for a new life
took his wife sarah with him

Question 11

what was his original name and why was it changed?

Answer 11

original name: abram but god called him abraham as it means ‘father of all nations’

Question 12

the promise land: why did gods called Abraham?

Answer 12

called him from Ur to a land that the would give to him

Question 13

the promise land: who did abraham bring to where?

Answer 13

him and his descendants made their new home in the land of Canaan

Question 14

the promise land: is the land given to Abraham called now?

Answer 14

Israel, named after his grandson

Question 15

the promise land: why is the land referred to the promise land?

Answer 15

because of god’s repeated promise to give the land to the descendants of Abraham

Question 16

the promise land: why have jews lived in this land continuously?

Answer 16

from the time of its original conquest by Joshua more than 3200 years ago

Question 17

the promise of descendants: what did god promised Abraham?

Answer 17

that he would make a great nation out of him

Question 18

the promise of descendants: why did god changed his name?

Answer 18

changed it name from Abram to Abraham as it means father of all nations

Question 19

the promise of descendants: where is the promise shown in?

Answer 19

genesis 17:6-8 where god promises that nations and kings will descend from Abraham

Question 20

the promise of descendants: why was it unexpected that he and his wife had a son?

Answer 20

they were very old

Question 21

the promise of descendants: what would Isaac’s son Jacob go on to find?

Answer 21

the 12 tribes of Israel

Question 22

the sign of circumcision: what did god promised?

Answer 22

to bless Abraham and the families of the earth through him

Question 23

the sign of circumcision: how did Abraham sealed the covenant?

Answer 23

by circumcising himself and the males in his family

Question 24

the sign of circumcision: what does circumcision involve?

Answer 24

involves the removal of a boy’s foreskin on the eighth day after birth

Question 25

the sign of circumcision: why does all males need to be circumcised?

Answer 25

to carry a mark in their flesh off their relationship with god