Exam 11: Judaism

Use examples from the texts in this chapter to show how the trials and triumphs of Jews and Judaism through the millennia confirm and illustrate the central elements of Jewish faith.

What does the following Key Term mean: -Diaspora

Isaac slayed the Philistine champion, Goliath the giant.

Abraham Joshua Heschel declared that the crucial link is not man's search for God, but God's search for man.

What does the following Key Term mean: -Septuagint

What does the following Key Term mean: -rabbis

Around 1000 BCE, the twelve tribes were united into a kingdom ruled by ________.

With whom did God make the second covenant?

Which of these texts is not in the Jewish canon?

Who is quoted as saying, "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in suffering"?

Generally Jews regard the Babylonian Talmud as the more authoritative version.

Observance of Yom Kippur, according to Herman Wouk, "still binds Jews to their identity when all other links have rusted through or snapped."

In 63 BCE a Persian army, led by a general named Pompey, seized Jerusalem and occupied Palestine.

Discuss the characteristics of life for Jewish communities in Europe in the Middle Ages. Use examples from the text.

In the parable of the Four Sons, each child represents one of the types of personality to whom we must impart the story of the Exodus. Which of these is not one of those types?

When the Israelites entered Canaan, they carried the Ark of the Covenant across the _________.

What is the Babylonian Talmud, and why is it important in understanding Jewish history? How does it remain its importance for Jews today?

The Jewish book _________ includes what Christians refer to as the Old Testament.

In 586 BCE the _________ conquered Judah, resulting in exile for the Israelites.

Seder literally means "feast."