Exam 11: Judaism

Reform Judaism recommends practicing many traditional customs such as Sabbath services in Hebrew and adherence to kosher laws.

Who wrote The Book of Commandments, a Commentary on the Mishnah, The Guide for the Perplexed, and a code of Jewish law titled the Mishneh Torah?

Which of these best applies to Orthodox Judaism?

In the middle ages, several remarkable Jewish philosophers emerged from the climate of ________ tolerance for Judaism.

For Jewish practice, what was the significance of the Romans' destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE? How did it change the geographic possibility of maintaining the Jewish community?

God declared to Abraham that the sign the covenant made with him will be ________.

Which of these phrases is used at the beginning of each of the Thirteen Principles of the Jewish Faith?

Which of the major movements of Judaism calls for discarding claims about a returning messiah?

________ preeminent authority as a rabbinic jurist was established by his Book of Commandments; a Commentary on the Mishnah; and the fourteen-volume code of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah.

Jewish communities existing outside the traditional land of Israel are referred to as Diaspora.

The First Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BCE by the ________.

In ________ a Jewish group known as the Maccabees took Jerusalem back from the Seleucids and purged the Temple of the pagan adornments and rites.

Who is the author of this passage? "To be a Jew during the Holocaust may have meant not to understand. Having rejected murder as a means of survival and death as a solution, men and women agreed to live and die without understanding."

The Talmud has two divisions, the Mishnah and the Gemara.

Describe some of the ways in which feminists critique Judaism. Use examples from the text.

The first covenant mentioned in the Tanakh was with whom?

Who made the first covenant with God?

The rift between Jews and Christians grew when in the fourth century the Roman emperor ________ converted to Christianity.

Jews and Christians competed for Rome's favor, and blamed each other for their troubles with Roman officials.

Although ultimately ambivalent about the Jews, ________ respected their monotheism, recognizing that Jews were "people of the book."