Unit 2

Question 1

Name of the jewish royal family during the second temple period

Answer 1

Hasmoneans

Question 2

The Roman general who took over Judea

Answer 2

Pompey

Question 3

Idumean price, forcibly converted who ended up ruling the jews under Roman rule

Answer 3

Antipater

Question 4

Son of the above, who became king of Judea with Roman backing

Answer 4

Herod

Question 5

Head of the Sanhedrin who escaped Jerusalem in a coffin

Answer 5

Yochanan ben Zakkai

Question 6

Commander of the Zealots on Masada

Answer 6

Elazar ben Yair

Question 7

Jewish priest who went over to the Romans side and became a historian

Answer 7

Josephus

Question 8

Rebel who led rebellion against Rome in 132 ce

Answer 8

Bar Kochba

Question 9

Greatest Rabbi of the period who was cruelly martyred by the Romans

Answer 9

Akiva

Question 10

Roman emperor who persecuted Judaism

Answer 10

Hadrian

Question 11

Herod’s religion

Answer 11

Judaism

Question 12

Herod’s nationality

Answer 12

Idomean

Question 13

Herod’s political inclination

Answer 13

Roman

Question 14

Herod’s culture

Answer 14

Hellenism

Question 15

Priests, aristocracy and concerned with temple ritual

Answer 15

Saducees

Question 16

Out in the deser, simplicity combined with a very different version of Judaism from everyone else

Answer 16

Eseenes

Question 17

Scholars and simple people who believed in ethical Judaism and that the torah is both written and oral

Answer 17

Pharisees

Question 18

They don’t like the Romans or anyone who is pro-Roman

Answer 18

Zealots

Question 19

What was the dying vision of Rabbi Chanina ben Teradion and its meaning?

Answer 19

He saw the parchment of torah burning but the actual letters flying away meaning that the jewish people will never die

Question 20

What was the final teaching and final words of Rabbi Akiva

Answer 20

you should always say the Shema when you die to show that you are always loyal to god even in your last moments

Question 21

Why is the find bathtub covering the fresco wall significant?

Answer 21

Showed that Zealots did not care for a wealthy lifestyle. Not carib about materialistic things

Question 22

Why is the oven over the mosaic significant?

Answer 22

Not carib about materialistic things

Question 23

Why is the finding of “Dry Bones” significant?

Answer 23

The Zealots learned torah and read torah in the temple

Question 24

Why is the mikvah significant?

Answer 24

It was a perfectly kosher mikvah meaning that the importance of purity to the zealots

Question 25

Why are the pieces of pottery with hebrew names significant?

Answer 25

People wrote the names of every man on a piece of pottery to decide who would kill who in their master suicide plan so they don’t have to fight the Romans