Chapter 3 The Israelites

What is something that harms a large number of people,such as a sickness or insects?

What is a tall stone or wooden slab inscribed with words or designs?

What is an important agreement or promise?

Which prophet is known as the "lawgiver"?

What is someone who is related to a person or group of people who lived in the past?

Who were the Maccabees?

Which holiday is connected to the Maccabees and the struggle against the Selucids in 176BCE?

The Philistines were friends of the Israelites and did not know how to make Iron weapons.

What are the two most important holidays in Judaism?

Is mixing meat and dairy kosher? For example a Cheeseburger?

The Pharisees wanted to resist the Romans so they taught the people to fight openly.

What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?

What does the word diaspora mean?

The early Israelites were a nomadic people?

Which is not a Abrahamic faith, meaning it is not connected to the Hebrew Bible?

According to the book this biblical prophet made a covenant with G_d.

Which is not a kosher food?

This biblical prophet led the Israelites out of Egypt and into the promised land.

Israel was once part of the Roman Empire.

Who united the tribes of Israel?

What is the Levant or what moderncountries are included in the Levant?

Which group of people developed an alphabet?

What is a jewish religious ieder and teacher?

What happened to the First Temple of Israel?

The Jewish holiday Passover is celebrated in the spring and concludes with a seder.