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| The first man and woman. They live in bliss in the Garden of Eden until Even lets the Serpent talk her into eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, which she then offers to Adam. God expels them from eden as punishment and they have pain. |
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| Earthly paradise for Adam and Eve |
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| the one tree whose fruit God forbade Adam and Eve from eating. After they do so, they gain knowledge of good and evil. |
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| The two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain was older and a farmer. Abel was a shepherd. They made offerings to God, who liked Abel's lamb better than Cain's wheat. Cain was jealous and killed Abel. For this, he was forced to roam as an outcast, with a horrible mark on his forehead that showed that he killed his brother. He said "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
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| Abraham is the first person to accept monotheism. Sarah is his wife. They were married for a long time and had no children. She suggested that he mate with her maid-servent, Hagar, so that he would have an heir. After that child was born, Sarah became pregnant and forced Abraham to throw out the maid and her son. becase she was jealous. Abraham and Sarah's son is Isaac. |
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| Build the ark, on which all the animals on the earth went, two by two, to escape drowning in the great flood, which lasted 40 days and 40 knightss. |
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| Hagar is the maid of Sarah. Hagar had a child with Abraham (Sarah's husband). Ishmael is that child; he became a wandering outcast. |
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| The son of Abraham and Sarah. God tested Abraham's faith by ordering him to sacrifice Isaac on a mountain. Abraham and Isaac went up to the mountain, but Isaac was a bit suspicious since there was no animal to sacrifice (Abraham said god would provide). Just as Abraham was about to slit Isaac's throat, an angel stayed his hand and then he saw a ram caught in nearby bushes, which he sacrificed instead. |
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| Son of Isaac. Jacob has a brother (Esau) whose birthright and blessing he stole when Isaac was on his deathbed. Later, he dreampt of a ladder that one could climb to get to heaven, with each rung being a good deed. He decided to apologize to Esau and then went on to have twelve sons, who became the twelve tribes of Israel. |
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| The wives of Jacob. (They were sisters) Jacob fell in love with Rachel, the younger sibling. Her father said that Jacob could marry her if he worked for the father for seven years. Jacob did so. After the wedding, when he lifted the veil, he found that he'd married Leah, who had to marry first since she was older. He still wanted Rachel, so the father said Jacob could have her after another seven years of labor, which he did. Meanwhile he and Leah had kids like crazy. |
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| Firstborn son of Rachel and Jacob. Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons because he loved the mother (Rachel) more than the mother of his other children (Leah). Joseph flaunted his father's favor, especially by showing off his many-colored coat that was a gift from Dad. The other brothers were very jealous and planned to murder him; instead, they sold him into slavery and he was taken to Egypt, where his ability to interpret dreams led him to become the pharoah's right-hand man. |
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| brothers who worked together to save the Israelites(Jews) from slavery in Egypt (they were still there from Joseph's time). Moses was the leader and God spoke to him, but he stuttered, so Aaron actually spoke to the people and told them what God told Moses. Moses led them across the Red Sea, which parted, and into the desert, where they roamed for many years. He went up to Mount Sinai, where God gave him the Ten Commandments. He was gone a long time and the people started to get nervous, so they built an idol to worship: a golden calf. When Moses returned and found them worshipping an idol, he was so upset that he broke the tablets the commandments were on. After they destroyed the calf, he went back and got another copy of the commandments. |
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| The desert where the Jews roamed for many years, before getting to the Promised Land. |
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| An israeli judge. In a major battle, when his forces were massively outnumbered, he fooled the opposition by making noise with trumpets that made the enemy think that the Herbrew forces wer emuch larger than they really were. |
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| Samson had great strength because he had never cut his hair (he was a Nazarite, his life consecrated to the lord). Delilah was from the enemy tribe (the Philistines) but she became his mistress and then betrayed him by cutting his hair while he slept. The Philistines captured and blinded him, but Samson eventually found enough strength to destroy his enemies by pulling down the pillars of the temple they were all in, even though doing so meant that he would die too. |
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| Naomi was a Hebrew whose son married Ruth, a Moabite (foreigner). AFter the son died, Ruth chose to stay with Naomi rather than returning to her own people. She is the first convert to Judaism and she is a symbol of loyalty. |
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| King of the Hebrews known for his wisdom. When two women appeared before him, both claiming that the same baby belonged to both of them, he ordered it cut in half, so each woman could have half. The woman who screamed not to cut the baby was given it, since Solomon determined that she must really love it, since she didn't want it to die |
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| The wife of Ahab(a king of Israel), notorious for her evil and vicious actions |
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| An ancient city of Mesopotamia known for its wealth, luxury, and vice |
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| A Jewish woman married to a Persian king. An evil man wanted to kill the Jews but Esther stopped him by pleading with her husband. |
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| A young boy who had the courage to fight the huge enemy, Goliath, whom he killed with a slingshot. He became king and was quite good, except for lusting after a married woman (Bathsheba), whose husband he then sent to the front lines to get conveniently killed so David could marry her. They became the parents of Absalom and Solomon. |
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| A huge warrior of the Philistines who was killed by a boy (David) with a slingshot; a symbol of great power that can be overpowered. |
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| The traditional enemies of the Hebrews, known for their barbarism and indifference to art and culture. |
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| A Hebrew whom God commanded to go to Nineveh to tell the people there to stop sinning. He didn't want to and tried to escape by boat, but God made a great storm. When the others on board realized that Jonah was the person God was mad at, they threw him overboard. He was then swallowed by a "great fish". He lived inside it for several days, repented, and was regurgitated on the beach. He then went quickly to Nineveh and followed God's orders. A symbol of learning the hard way. |
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| A symbol of loyalty and faith in God. God and Satan made a bet as to whether or not Job would curse God. God gave Satan free rein to test Job; everything bad happened that could possibly happen and still Job didn't curse God. Eventually, god won the bet and gave Job back all the things he had lost. |
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| A young Hebrew prophet who prayed even when the king had ordered that no one pray. For this, he was thrown into a lion's den, where he should have been killed. Instead, God saved him and he came out of the lion's den unhurt. A symbol of God's protection and the rewards of faith. |
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| Gospels (Mathew, Mark, Luke, John) |
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the "Good News"
The first four books of the New Testament, all telling the life of Jesus, but from four different perspectives
"The Gospel" has come to mean any statement that is unquestionably true. |
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| Born before Jesus and announced his coming. Baptized Jesus and was one of his followers. After Jesus's death, he was captured by Herod for preaching Jesus's word. Salome danced for Herod, who offered her any gift in payment for her wonderful dancing. She requested the head of John the Baptist, which was delivered to her on a silver platter. |
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One of the twelve original disciples of Jesus. He sold out to the Romans for thirty pieces of silver. He kissed Jesus in public so the Romans would know which man was Jesus and could arrest him.
The "kiss of Judas" is an act of betrayal, especially one that looks like a loving action. |
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| Largely the developer of Christianity as an organized system of beliefs; he took his information on the road and went preaching in towns all over the mid east. The romans were after him. |
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| A prostitute who came to hear Jesus preach and was accepted by him and became a devout follower. She is a symbol of the absolute possibility of repentance and acceptance by God. |
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the first "pope" of the Christian church
His name means "rock" in latin and he povided the foundation for building the church itself figuratively. |
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| The king of the Hebrews who ordered John the Baptist beheaded for Salome's reward and who ordered all Jewish males under the age of two to be killed to prevent the "King of Jews" from overthrowing him. |
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| A man who Jesus raised from the dead, even though he'd been buried for 3 days. A symbol of Jesus's power and possibilities. |
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| The Wise Men who followed the star to Bethlehem to see baby Jesus the night he was born and brought him gifts to honor his birth. |
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| Jesus Christ is a figure of martyrdom, sacrafice, and loving forgiveness. He is often symbolized as either a carpenter, or a lamb (a common sacrificial animal). |
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| One of Jesus's most famous miracles. People came to hear him talk about feeding the masses and he ultipled loaves and fishes so everyone was fed with food to spare. Symbolizes a miraculous finding of resoures when that seems impossible. |
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| A wastrel who returns home and is welcomed with open arms. Sumbolizes the permanent chance for God's or anyone's forgiveness, no matter what one has done. |
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| Lucifer was originally the top angel and sat at God's right hand. He got jealous and tried a coup, which failed so he got sent to Hell, where he is more commonly called the devil or satan |
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| The Anti Christ is the antagonist of Christ who will appear before the Second Coming, claiming to be Christm and make serious trouble until Christ actually appears and defeats him, probably at the battle of Armaggedon, a great battle between the forces of good and evil that is to occur at the end of the world. |
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