Transcript A brief history of Judaism

A brief history of Judaism
•Hebrews.
•Israelites.
•Jews.
ALL are from within JUDAISM
as a culture, a people group
and as a religion.
Beginnings…
• The story of Israel as a nation unfolds
beginning with the founding of the people
by Abraham.
The journey to Egypt…
• Long after the time of Abraham, an agricultural
crisis let the Israelites to move to Egypt.
• The JOSEPH story ~ Genesis 37, 39-50. (a
long story highlighting its importance).
Slaves… in Egypt!
• The Hebrews grew in number and were forced
into slavery by the Egyptians many years later.
• They were slaves for about 400 years – being
used to build structures for the Egyptians.
Moses…
• Moses was born as a slave
and hidden in a basket on
the river Nile.
• Moses was then found by
an Egyptian Princess who
raised him in the royal
palace.
• Moses grew up thinking he
was an Egyptian until he
realised who his family
were.
• Moses killed an Egyptian
for mistreating a Jewish
slave.
Moses contd.
• Moses ran away and
became a shepherd.
• One day he came
across a ‘Burning Bush’
where he heard the
voice of G-d.
• G-d told him to go back
to Egypt to free the
Hebrew/Jewish slaves.
• G-d told him that He
would help him.
Moses back in Egypt…
• Moses returned to ask
Pharaoh to let G-d’s people
go free.
• Pharaoh refused and G-d
sent 10 plagues in total to
make Pharaoh change his
mind.
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Blood
Frogs
Vermin
Beasts
Cattle Disease
Boils
Hail
Locusts
Darkness
Slaying of First Born
FREEDOM!
• After the last plague – the
death of the first born,
Pharaoh decided to let the
Jews go.
• But then Pharaoh changed his
mind and chased after them.
• At the YAM SUPH (Red Sea)
Moses held his staff over the
water and the sea parted
allowing the Jews to cross.
• When the Egyptians tried to
cross the water came down
over them and they were
drowned.
Desert wanderings…
• After G-d gave Moses the
Torah including the 10
commandments the Jews
did not follow G-d’s ways.
• They were on their way to
the Promised Land –
Canaan, but G-d punished
them for by making them
wander around the desert
for 40 years.
Into the Promised Land…
• Over the next several centuries
Israel became a moderately
powerful nation under Saul, David,
and Solomon.
• After Solomon’s death the
Kingdom was divided in two parts.
• The northern segment of Israel
was overrun by the Assyrian
Empire late in the 8th century BC.
• The southern part known as the
nation of Judah was conquered by
the Babylonians early in the 6th
century.
Judah…
• After the Babylonians conquered Judah they
made most of the people move to Babylon
(Iran/Iraq).
• Eventually the Jews returned to their homeland.
• Next they were conquered by the Greeks.
• Then they were conquered by the Romans…
Expelled!
Then return!
• The Romans occupied Israel
until 70 CE when they finally
expelled the Jews.
• The Jews travelled all over
the world not having a
country of their own for the
next 2000 years until just
after the second world war
when the nation of Israel was
reformed in Palestine.
(1948).