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Judaism World Religions Quiz
Judaism World Religions Quiz
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Torah defines ________.
D. none of the above
B. ethical conduct
A. worship
C. both A and B
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The starting point for rabbinic study of oral Torah; a collection of sacred traditions.
The Torah
The Mishnah
The Talmud
The Diaspora
3
The five books of the Torah are ________.
A. traditionally believed to have been revealed by God.
B. the central statement of Judaism´s religious laws.
D. both A and B.
C. a summary of the entire Hebrew Bible.
4
The most famous of the 613 laws in the Torah found in Chapter 20 of Exodus.
The Mishnah
The Talmud
The Ten Commandments
The Torah
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_______ received the Law at Mt. Sinai and is regarded as the Torah´s author.
David
Jacob
Moses
Abraham
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Whom did God call to be the father of a great nation, the first patriarch of the Jewish people?
Moses
Abraham
David
Jacob
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The second large-scale revolt the Jews waged against Romans ended in AD 135 when the Romans___.
B. decreed that Jews could no longer inhabit Palestine
A. leveled Jerusalem
C. both A and B
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The vast depository blending together the oral and written forms of Torah based on the Mishnah.
Diaspora
Hasidism
The Seder
The Talmud
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The high point of the Passover festival.
Seder
Tanakh
Talmud
Kabbalah
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All of the following were key events in Israelite history except ____________.
the Exodus from Egypt
the fall of the northern and southern kingdoms
the Revelation on Mt. Sinai
the Assyrian exile
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God's name appears in the Bible in the Hebrew equivalents of the letters _________.
YHWH
INRI
TOR
TNK
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Jews believe that God is ______.
directly involved in history
basically disconnected from our reality
completely uninvolved in history
subject to human authority at times
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What Yom Kippur emphasizes.
rebirth
repentance
regeneration
renewal
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Describes the Jews who live outside the homeland, a circumstance that has happened many times.
The Torah
The Diaspora
The Talmud
The Seder
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It is most accurate to think of the Jews as _______.
adherents of the first official religion in history
an ethic group that shares a common history and religion
a single "race"of genetically related people
wandering nomads in the desert
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A form of Judaism that arose in 18th century Eastern Europe, emphases on mysticism and prayer.
The Orthodox
The Sephardim
The Hasidim
The Reform
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Literally means "instruction;" the will of God as it is revealed to humankind.
Tanakh
Talmud
Shema
Torah
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Jews refer to the Hebrew Bible as the ______.
B. Old Testament
C. Talmud
D. both A and B
A. Tanakh
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A coming-of-age ritual for a Jewish girl.
circumcision
quinceañera
bar mitzvah
bat mitzvah
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A movement that was originally committed to the establishment of a Jewish homeland.
Zionism
Shema
Kabbalah
Semitism
