Roots of Judaism

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Roots of Judaism

• Chapter 2.5

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Israelites

• Hebrews
• Recorded events and laws in Torah
• Abraham
• Mesopotamia
• 2000 BC family migrated to Canaan
• Founded Israelite nation
• Famine forced migration to Egypt
• Enslaved
• Moses led escape to Canaan (Exodus)

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Kingdom of Israel

• 1000 BC
• Kingdom of Israel
• King David
• United tribes to single nation
• King Solomon built Jerusalem, temple
• Negotiated with Egypt, Mesopotamia
• High taxes, forced labor, revolting
• Split Israel in North, Judah in South

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Conquest

• 722 BC- Israel fell to Assyrians
• 586 BC- Babylonians capture Judah
• Nebuchadnezzar destroyed temple
• Exiled to Babylon
• People became known as Jews
• Persian leader Cyrus freed Jews

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One God

• Monotheism belief in one God
• Chosen People
• Covenant binding agreement
• Jews believe God made covenant with Abraham
• Moses renewed covenant

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Abraham

• Jews believe that Abraham was 1st Jew
• Wife could not have children, offered her
  maid-servant
• Son Ishmael with maid-servant
• God allowed wife to have child
• Son Isaac with wife
• Ishmael founded Islam
• Isaac prophet for Judaism

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Law and Morality

• Torah set laws
• Cleanliness, food prep, criminal law
• Patriarchal society
• Men had all authority
• Arranged marriages
• Woman-few rights
• 10 Commandments
• Heart of Judaism
• Religious duties and conduct

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Ethics

• Prophets Spiritual leaders to interpret Gods
  will
• Isaac, Jeremiah
• Ethics moral standards
• Morality and social justice
• All people equal

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Future

• 2000 years later
• Diaspora scattering of people
• Jews left homeland
• Maintained identity
• Major world religion
• Influenced Christianity, Islam
• All faiths honor Abraham, Moses, Prophets
• All teach ethical world view of Israelites
• Shared view Judeo-Christian tradition

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Exodus

• Passover
• Story of Exodus from Egypt
• Choose 5 of the following statements of Moses to
  illustrate.
• Draw each on a separate sheet of paper

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• The infant Moses is found along the river by the
  pharaoh's daughter .
• Moses attacks the Egyptian overseer who struck a
  Semite flees to the desert.
• God calls out to Moses from the fire of a burning
  bush tells him to set the Israelites free
  .
• Moses confronts Pharaoh he asks Pharaoh to let
  his people go .
• Ten plagues (confrontation between Pharaoh and
  the god of the Israelites) .

• Moses leads Israelites out of Egypt and crosses
  the Red Sea (or "sea of reeds") the parting of
  the sea .
• Moses leads Israelites through the barren desert
  .
• Moses strikes a rock in the desert, making water
  flow from it .
• Moses climbs Mount Sinai and receives the Ten
  Commandments from God Moses presents them to the
  Israelites .
• Moses leads the Israelites to "the promised land"
  but dies before entering it. .