Judaism

The Search For a Promised Land

The Kingdom of Israel

The Babylonian Captivity

Moses and The Exodus

Change

From Ur to Egypt

combined largely harsh features such as arid desert, rocky wilderness, grassy hills, and the dry, hot valley of the Jordan River.

Torah

Abraham

Diffusion

The God of Abraham

The Exodus in Egypt

1200-1300 B.C.

nonetheless, the Philistines, another people in the area, threatened the Israelites' position in ancient Canaan.

The Life of Moses

Leadership

Male babies ordered to be killed by Pharoah

The first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible.

Mother hid him in the river

From about 1020 to 922 B.C the Israelites unites under three able kings: Soul, David, and Solomon.

A shepherd that was chosen by God to be the "father" of the Jewish people.

The temple that Solomon built was bot loarge, but it gleamed like a precious gem.

Three king were chosen largely because of his success in driving out the Phillistines from the central hills.

Lead Israelites out of slavery

Passover

Angel of Death - The Tenth Plague

Covenant

Pharaoh lets them go

A promise made between God and the founder of the Jewish people to protect Abraham and his descendants.

Kills firstborn sons in Egypt

In 738b.c Israel and Judah began paying tribute

By 722 B.C the whole northern kingdom had fallen into the Assyrians

God tells Moses to have Israelites sacrifice a lamb and paint their door frames to be 'passed over' by this plague

Values and Beliefs

Solomon's built projects requited hight taxes and badly strained the Kingdom's finances.

God uses Moses to part the red sea

Israelites cross and escape Egypt - "Exodus"

Changes his mind and goes after them

Conflict

Die as the sea swallows them

After conquering Israel, the Assyrians rapidly lost power to a rising Babylonians.

Moses's Mother

Jochebed

Abraham was the one to introduce the idea of one God, not multiple. BBC Summary

Still celebrated each year

Work on the second temple was completed in 515 B.C

It lasts 7-8 days depending on where it is celebrated

In Christianity, The Last Supper before Jesus is crucified is a Passover meal, in celebration and remembrance of the Passover

Conflict

Conquest

Monarchy

Theocratic Monarchy

A Levite later identified as Jochebed in Numbers 26:59

Wife of Amram, mother of Aaron, Moses, and Miriam

Found and adopted by Egyptian princess

Still recognized his Hebrew blood growing up

Ran and escaped to the desert for 40 years

Hebrew people were enslaved by Egyptians, after first being treated like honored guests after escaping drought and famine

Accidentally killed an Egyptian man for harming another Hebrew

Why did Egyptian perception of the Jews change?

Values and Beliefs

next 200 years were a time of upheaval for the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

The Covenant

Change and Conflict

Israel and Judah split

The Israelites travelled across the Sinai Desert in obedience to God

Leadership

Moses climbed the Sinai desert to pray and speak with God

Monotheism

He came down with two tablets

Lightning struck the mountain and brought the tablets that were rules for the Jews to follow

The walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt in 445 B.C but soon after others dominated the region like Persians, Greeks, and the Romans and took control of Judah

The Babylonian Captivity lasted 70 years

King Soloman died making the Southern and Northen Kingdom to split up.

The Torah

How similar is The Torah to the Bible?

A covenant was formed between God and the Israelites

God would protect them, and they would obey God

A belief in a single God.

Tribute - Peace money paid by an weaker power to a stronger one

How did North and South split up?

The Babylonian Captivity is deportation of the Jews to Babylon.

Why did the tribes of Benjamin and Judah split?

After 40 years, Moses died and the returned to Canaan

Colonialism

The Israelites settled and began to farm, and they learned new technologies from neighboring nations

They organized themselves into 12 tribes that were self governing

When necessary, God would appoint Judges to unite the tribes in government and military if there was a crisis

Deborah

Why did the Israelites split into tribes and not form one?

The fourth judge of Israel, a prophetess

That was unusual for a society in this time frame; generally the responsibilities of the woman were to raise her children and provide a good example, not officiating

Why did everyone want to fight and take over all of the land instead of just keeping what they had?

About how many Jews ended up returning after all of the fighting happened?

The southern kingdom of Judah resisted for another 150 years before it too was destroyed.

Monotheism

Ethical Monotheism

Important facts

The prophesied 70 years of captivity were fulfilled when the new Temple was completed in 516 BC.

This covenant surrounding the Commandments included a code of laws that built the judiciary system in Israel

Cyrus of the Great - initiated a new attitude toward the nations and decreed the restoration of worship at Jerusalem.

This code and according values were confirmed by prophets

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"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"; criminal debts would be paid justly and according to their crime, just as how God would protect them if they were obedient in return

King or Pharaoh seen as an intermediary between humankind and the gods they worshipped