Israel/Judaism religion

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Israel

Answer 1

A crossroads, linking Anatolia, Egypt, Arabia, and Mesopotamia.

Question 2

Hebrew Bible

Answer 2

The Old Testament that include the prophecy of Jesus Christ as God’s appointed Messiah.

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Yahweh

Answer 3

The Israelite god who gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

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First Temple

Answer 4

The link between religious and secular authority in that the Israelites had a central shrine. The religious center for all Israelites and Jews. Built by David’s son Solomon.

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Monotheism

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The belief in Yahweh as the one and only god.

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Diaspora

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Greek word meaning “dispersion” or “scattering”.

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Jesus

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a young Jewish carpenter from the Galilee region in northern Israel.

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Paul

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A Jew from the Greek city of Tarsus who focused on the spiritual hunger among many non-jews and eventually set up a string of Christian communities in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Aqueduct

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A long elevated or underground conduit that carried water from a source to an urban center using only the force of gravity.

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Mecca

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A late-blooming caravan city occupies a barren mountain valley halfway between Yemen and Syria and somewhat inland from the Red Sea coast.

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Muhammad

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The founder of the Islamic religion. Prophet of the Islamic God.

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Muslim

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One who makes “submission” to the will of the Islamic god.

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Islam

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An Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad.

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Medina

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The place where Muhammad migrated to after Mecca.

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Umma

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A community defined by acceptance of Islam and of Muhammad as the “Messenger of God”.

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Quran

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The book of words from the Islamic god. People recorded them from Muhammad.

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Caliphate

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An Islamic form of government in which political and religious. leadership is united, and the head of state (the Caliph) is a successor to the Prophet Muhammad.

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Shi’ites

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Those who believed Ali was the Prophet’s heir.

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Sunnis

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Those Muslims who supported the first three caliphs.

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Ulama

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Social group of religious scholars.

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Hadith

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Collection of narratives and reports of the precise words or deeds of Muhammad.

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Judea/Galilee

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The two main cities are by the Mediterranean Sea. Jewish religious cities.

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Second Temple

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Center of Jewish religious life. Where sacrifices could be performed. Rebuilt by Herod the Great

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Sortilege

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Divination using the casting of lots.

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Sanhedrin

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A ruling council that adjudicated over Jewish affairs.

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Sadducees

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The oldest form of Judaism out of the 5 rival forms and were made up primarily from the priests and their followers.

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Pharisees

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Jewish group that were dominated by the teachers Called Rabbi and help to spread the House of Prayer to the entire Jewish diaspora.

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Rabbi

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Jewish Teacher

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Synagogue

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House of Prayer

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Apocalyptic

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Describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world.

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Essenes

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A group that appear to be broke off from the Sadducees and was lead by priests and followers.

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Qumran

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The group of Essenes that lived a monastic life like Buddhism in the deserts.

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Messiah

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The one that people are waiting for due to the prophecies.

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Zealot

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A group in terms of ritual purity questions. During 1st Jewish Revolt the group encouraged jewish to fight agains the romans.

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Sicarii

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Group within Zealot or the enforces of zealot.

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Nazareness

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Followers of Yeshua of Nazareth (Jesus Christ)

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Apostles

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Representative chosen by Jesus Christ

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Yeshua of Nazareth

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The Messiah

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Peter

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Head of Apostles. Was a fisherman who became the leader of the Nararenes movement to spread Jerusalem.

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James

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The apostles who stayed in Jerusalem. He is the biological cousin of Jesus and also the head of the original group of Nazarenes.

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Rabbi Akiva

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The pharisee who thought Kokhba was the awaited Messiah.

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Rabbinic Judaism

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It exists today that we are familiar with in the modern period. Modification and descendant of the Pharisees.

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Council of Jerusalem

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A conference of the Christian Apostles in Jerusalem that decreed that Gentile Christians did not have to observe the Mosaic Law of the Jews.

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Caligula

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Decided he was God, the Jewish should worship him as a god.

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Hubal

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Diety is associated with warfare but also with divination.

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Khadija

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Muhammad's first wife.

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Shari'a

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Islamic law system that bonded to people in the community of faith.

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Hijra

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Migration

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Allah

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The Islamic God

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Abu Bakr

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The first caliphate of the Islamic community following Muhammad's death.

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House of Wisdom

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A great library in Baghdad that restored important texts that helped receive knowledge.

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Ghana

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The earliest kingdom that is known for sub-Saharan beneficiary of the new exchange system. "The land of gold".