Transcript The Beginnings of Judaism

The Beginnings of Judaism
Chapter 5 lesson 3
Abraham
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Married Sarah
From city-state
Ur
Bible says he
was told to go to Canaan by God
At Canaan God made a covenant (a binding
agreement or promise) with Abraham
This promise is consider the beginning of
the Jewish peoples’ history
Jewish people are called Israelites after
Abraham’s grandson Israel.
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Almost 600 years later…..
II. Moses (family lived in Egypt as Hebrew slaves)
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placed in a basket in the Nile River
by his mother as a baby (to escape Pharaoh’s order to
drown all male Hebrew babies)
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was found and raised by the pharaoh’s
daughter as royalty
killed an Egyptian that was beating a Hebrew
slave
fled Egypt but returned 40 years later to free the
Israelites from slavery on God’s orders.
wandered forty years in the desert with the
Israelites
The plagues as they appear in the Bible are:
1.(exodus 7:14–25) water turned to blood killing all fish and other water life.
2.(exodus 8:1–8:15) frogs
3.(exodus 8:16–19) lice or gnats
4.(exodus 8:20–30) flies or beasts
5.(exodus 9:1–7) disease on livestock
6.(exodus 9:8–12) unhealable boils
7.(exodus 9:13–35) hail mixed with fire
8.(exodus 10:1–20) locusts
9.(exodus 10:21–29) darkness
10.(exodus 11,12) death of the first-born of all humans and animals who do
not have marked doorposts.
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Parting of the Red Sea
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Moses was given 5 books of law at Mount
Sinai by God, called the Torah
these books contained the Ten
Commandments
First five books are in the Old Testament
was a monotheist
did not enter Canaan (the land promised to
them by God) with the Israelites after 40 years
in the desert
Wandered in desert so all Hebrews 20 years or
older would pass away before the next
generation entered the promised land, (because
they kept complaining against God
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III. Israel
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Israelites defeated several kings in Canaan
Israel became a powerful nation under King
David
C. 1000 B.C. king David made Jerusalem his
capital
King Solomon, David’s son, built the great
temple in Jerusalem
Saturday is Sabbath (day of rest)
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C. 928 B.C. Israel split into two kingdoms
during the reign of Solomons son,
Rehoboam.
C. 721 B.C. Assyrians conquered northern
kingdom, called Israel
South kingdom was Judah, Babylonians
conquer them c. 586 B.C.
Word Jew comes from the word Judah
Jews were forced to leave and scattered to
many different places, this is called the
Diaspora (the scattering)