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Judaism History
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Religious Studies
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02/24/2013

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Judea
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Jewish Roman Province
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Covenant
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Deal with god
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Herod the great
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had control of judea when christ was born
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herrod antipadre
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control of judea when christ died
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Sadducees
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upper-echelon jews (2nd temple)
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Zealotry
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political movement in 1st century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the Great Jewish Revolt
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Pharisees
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conflict dealing with class, hellenization, mosaic law, and torah interpretation
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Essenes
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led communal lives dedicated to asceticism, voluntary poverty, daily immersion, and abstinence from worldly pleasures and were celibate. suspected of having written dead sea scrolls
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Jewish Diaspora
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jews were expelled from judea
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ΙχθυΣ
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Jesus Christ, god's son and savior
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main branches of judaism
Definition
Orthodox, Conservative and Reform
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brit malah
Definition
circumcision
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kaddish
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prayer of mourning and praise
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bar mitzvah
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male pubescent rite of passage
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bat mitzvah
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maimonides
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jewish scholar and physician
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Pentateuch
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Torah
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Talmud
Definition
is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, considered second to the Torah. has two main divisions
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Mishnah
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shisha sedarim
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the "six orders" of the Oral Law of Judaism
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Mishnah
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the first written compendium of Judaism's Oral Law
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gemara
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an elucidation of the Mishnah
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rabbinic judaism
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God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah
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Halacha
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is the collective body of religious laws for Jews
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Ashkenazi
Definition
jewy jews
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Mizrahi Jews
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arabic jews
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Sephardi Jews
Definition
Spanish and Portuguese Jews who lived or live in the Iberian Peninsula
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Siddur
Definition
Jewish prayer book, containing a set order of daily prayers
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Piyyut
Definition
Jewish liturgical poem
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zohar
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literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah
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Tosefta
Definition
compilation of the Jewish oral law from the period of the Mishnah.
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Isaac
Definition
son of abraham
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jacob
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grandson of Abraham, third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant
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moses
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prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed
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septuagint
Definition
ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek
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aaron
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the older brother of Moses "let my people go". orator.
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david
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second king of the United Kingdom of Israel
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solomon
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a king of Israel and the son of David
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contents of the Ketuvim
Definition
Poetic works, the five Megillot, daniel, ezrah-nehemiah, and chronicles
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Ketuvim means:
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"writings"
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Navi'im means:
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"Prophets"
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contents of Ketuivim
Definition
Poetic Works, the five megillot, and daniel, ezra-nehemiah and chronicles
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Torah means:
Definition
"Teaching"
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Contents of the Torah
Definition
Genesis, Leviticus, Numbers, Exodus, and Deuteronomy
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contents of ketuvim
Definition
Former prophets, Latter and minor prophets
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another translation of the word "torah"
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miqrah
Term
actual number of commandments
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613
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Rehoboam
Definition
original kind of the divided kingdom of judah
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abraham
Definition
was called from ur to go to canaan
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plagues
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