test review 4 Flashcards
Where was the Jewish Civilization located in ancient times?
Between Egypt and Mesopotamia
Explanation:
“Between Egypt and Mesopotamia there is a land of deep valleys and rich pastures.”
The Jewish people were first conquered and ruled by the __________, and then the __________ would invade.
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“First it would be conquered and ruled by the Egyptians, and then the Babylonians would invade.”
What is a “monotheistic herdsman”?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
Monotheism: The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
Herdsman: A man who herds, tends, or manages livestock.
In what way did the Ancient Jews make history rather than being part of history?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“They didn’t just become part of history, they made history—and by that I mean they shaped the course of all history to come. And this special something was their religion.”
Which of the following would the Ancient Jews not describe their God as creating?
Songs and stories
Explanation:
“The One and Only God, Creator of heaven and earth, sun and moon, land and river, plant and beast, and all of mankind as well.”
Complete the Sentiment: The Ancient Jewish God “was he who raged furiously against them in the storm, but he never __________.”
Abandoned his people
Explanation:
“It was he who raged furiously against them in the storm, but he never abandoned his people.”
Complete the Sentiment: “And the songs of their deeds, which were the deeds of their god, are the __________.”
The Old Testament of the Bible
Explanation:
“And the songs of their deeds, which were the deeds of their god, are the Old Testament of the Bible.”
Where is the story of Abraham located, and where is Abraham from?
Genesis, Ur
Explanation:
“There’s the story of Abraham, for example. Do you remember where he came from? The answer is in the Book of Genesis, in chapter eleven. He came from Ur in the Chaldees.”
Abraham was probably alive at the same time as whom?
King Hammurabi
Explanation:
“But Abraham didn’t live there in the earliest times. He was probably alive at the time of Hammurabi, the great lawgiver, which was—as you remember!—around 1700 BC.”
Name This Biblical Story: “God was angry at their pride and stopped them … by making them all speak different languages so that they could no longer understand one another.”
The Tower of Babel
Explanation:
“The people of a great city tried to build a tower that would reach up to heaven, and God was angry at their pride and stopped them building any higher by making them all speak different languages so that they could no longer understand one another.”
What is the Tower of Babel about?
Babylonian ziggurats
Explanation:
“Babel is Babylon. So now you will be able to understand the story better. For, as you know, the Babylonians really did build gigantic towers ‘the top of which reached even to the heavens,’ and they built them so as to be nearer to the sun, the moon, and the stars.”
Which biblical figure was sold yet became a counselor and minister to the pharaoh?
Joseph, Son of Jacob
Explanation:
“One of Abraham of Ur’s descendants (the Bible tells us) was Joseph, son of Jacob, whose brothers took him to Egypt and sold him, despite which he became a counselor and minister to the pharaoh.”
Name the Biblical Book: “And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick…”
Exodus
Explanation:
“In the first chapter of Exodus we read: ‘And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick…’”
“In the end, __________ led [the Jews] out of Egypt into the desert … From there they tried to win back the promised land—that is, the land in which their ancestors had lived since the time of Abraham.”
Moses
Explanation:
“In the end, Moses led them out of Egypt into the desert—probably in around 1250 BC. From there they tried to win back the promised land—that is, the land in which their ancestors had lived since the time of Abraham.”
“And finally, after long, cruel, and bloody battles, they succeeded. So now they had their own small kingdom, with its capital: __________.”
Jerusalem
Explanation:
“And finally, after long, cruel, and bloody battles, they succeeded. So now they had their own small kingdom, with its capital: Jerusalem.”
The Jews’ “first king was __________, who fought against a neighboring tribe, the __________, and died on the battlefield.”
Saul, Philistines
Explanation:
“Their first king was Saul, who fought against a neighboring tribe, the Philistines, and died on the battlefield.”
“__________ was a wise and just king who ruled soon after 1000 BC” and who “built the first Temple of Jerusalem.”
Solomon
Explanation:
“Solomon was a wise and just king who ruled soon after 1000 BC.”
“He built the first Temple of Jerusalem, although his architects weren’t Jews, but foreign artisans from neighboring lands.”
What was found at the innermost part of the Jewish temple?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“Whereas in the innermost part of the Jewish temple—the Holy of Holies—there was no image at all. For of the God, whose first appearance in the history of the world was to the people of the Jews—God, the Almighty, the One and Only God—no image could or might be made. All that was there were the tablets of the Laws with their Ten Commandments. In these God had represented himself.”
What were the names of the two kingdoms that arose after Solomon’s reign?
Answer not listed
Explanation:
“After Solomon’s reign things went less well for the Jews. Their kingdom split in two: the kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah.”
Choose the vocabulary that best fits. These people who __________ to their flocks eventually sang of a better and stronger and more __________ god whom they worshiped.
tended, exalted
Explanation:
These people who tended to their flocks eventually sang of a better and stronger and more exalted god whom they worshiped.
