Judaism

The promised land in Jewish history which Jews intended to return to after their enslavement in Egypt.

• Isaac

• Canaan

• Mitzvot

• Solomon

Refers to the repeated exile of the Jewish people from their homeland in Israel

• Kabbalah

• Galut

• Diaspora Nationalism

• Zionism

Which of the following statement on the early Hebrew's understanding of God is true?

• Unlike Mesopotamians or the Egyptians, the early Hebrews disclaims that their laws came directly from God.

• Like Mesopotamians, the early Hebrews worshipped numerous nature deities and represented them in forms of images and symbols.

• Like Egyptians, the early Hebrews believed in singularity represented on earth by a divine ruler.

• Unlike Mesopotamians or the Egyptians, the early Hebrews affirmed that their laws came directly from God.

Which of the following statements speaks for early Hebrew's understanding of God?

• The early Hebrew's believe that God is an abstract concept and/or principle.

• The early Hebrews' religion posited an unchanging set of nature deities represented on earth by a divine ruler.

• The early Hebrews preserve the singularity of a sovereign God.

• The early Hebrews believe in numerous deities, represented in the forms of images and symbols.

One of Judaism's elements that embodies Judaism's intellectual culture, focusing on the study, understanding, and interpretation of sacred texts.

• Torah

• Culture

• God

• Peoplehood

A Greek termed coined specifically for the dispersion of Jews throughout the Hellenistic or Greek-speaking world.

• Haskalah

• Holocaust

• Diaspora

• Shoah

Which of the following statement on the Hebrew's understanding of God is not true?

• God was not an abstract concept or principle, but actively involved in history through revelation and covenant.

• God's relationship with the Jewish people implicates salvation through good and rightful acts and deeds.

• God's creation of the universe, including possibilities of good and evil, implies the existence of human free will.

• God's covenant with the Jewish people and involvement in human history implies that individuals and societies exist for a reason.

The movement born for the improvement of the Jews; the Jewish Enlightenment

• Haskalah

• Holocaust

• Shoah

• Diaspora

A modern ideological movement of Jewish nationalism and the idea of the restoration of the Jewish homeland in Palestine

• Zionism

• Kabbalah

• Galut

• Diaspora Nationalism

A political movement suggesting that Jews must be eliminated from society

• Anti-Semitism

• Mitzvoth

• Hasidism

• Reform Judaism