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| When did the Hebres leave Mespotamia and settle in Canaan? |
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| Who was the father of the Jews? |
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| Where did Abraham lead the Hebrews? |
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| What did the Hebrews call Canaan? |
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| Abraham's grandson, Jacob, had 12 sons that later became what? |
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| How long did the Hebrews live in Canaan? |
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| Who left Canaan and moved to Egypt because of famine? |
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| Who invited the Iraelites to Egypt? |
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| Why did the Hebrews call Canaan the Promised Land? |
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| because God promised it to them |
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| When was Moses tole by God in burning bush to lead the Israelites out of Egypt? |
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| Who told Moses that he would send 10 plagues to Egypt to convince pharoh? |
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| What is Israel's leaving Egypt known as? |
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| Where did God give Moses a set of laws known as Torah? |
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| What are the most important of the laws that God gave Moses? |
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| God's covenant with the Hebrews |
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| What was writtenby the Hebrews? |
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| What is the religion of the Jews called? |
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| Judiasm (first religion to teach the belief in only one God) |
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| What is a Jewish house of worship? |
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| Jewish spiritual leader or preacher |
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| Jewish festival celebrating exodus from Egypt |
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| What is the Jewish celebration in December remembering victory over conguerors and rediedictions of the temple |
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| When did the Persians defeat the chaldeans and Persian King? |
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| Who allowed the Jews to return to Judah? |
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| What is 5 books of the Torah and 34 other books- 1st book of the Torah is Genesis- the Hebrew Bible is basically the Old Testament of the Christian Bible? |
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| When and who defeated Persia and Greek became the primary language? |
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| Alexander the Great in 334 BC |
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| When did a Jewish Preist, Judas Maccabeus, and his followers repell against the Greeks and drove them out of Juda? |
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| What customs forbid eating certain foods such as pork or smooth skinned fish? |
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| Jewish custom that food must be prepared according to Jewish dietary law |
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| When and who conquered the Judah and renamed it Judea? |
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| Who ruled Israel at the time of Jesus' birth under the rule of Herod? |
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| Who is the founder of Christianity? |
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| What 3 groups did Jews splinter into? |
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| Pharisees, Sudducees, and Essenees |
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| taught the Torah and how to apply its laws to daily life |
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| alsot taught the Torah but were more concerned with how it applied to the priests in the Temple |
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| broke away and went to live in the desert to pray and wait for God to deliver the Jews from the Romans- also beleived to have written the Dead sea Scrolls, which were found in 1947 near the Dead Sea |
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| Where was Jesus crucified on the cross? |
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| What is the Great Commandment? |
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| Love God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself |
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| What is the holiday celebreating Jesus' birth? |
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| What is the holiday celebrating deatha nd resurrection of Jesus? |
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| What does the New Testament of the bible tell? |
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