Name ______Period ______Date ______
Middle East Religions Cloze Notes-Judaism
Standard: SS7G8 The student will describe the diverse cultures of the people who live in Southwest Asia (Middle East). c. Compare and contrast the prominent religions in Southwest Asia (Middle East): Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
What is ______? The belief in just ______God
So . . . What do you think ______is (remember your stem words!)
The belief in ______gods—as in all of the ancient civilizations such as Egypt and Sumer
Judaism
Judaism is the ______monotheistic religion, and its foundation lies in the original covenant made between ______and God, circa 1900 BCE, when Abraham was called to leave his home in Ur and travel to Cannan (later known as Palestine and Israel).
Abraham is regarded as the ______of the Jewish people.
Jews believe God made a ______with Abraham that his ______would be God’s chosen people. In return they would have to keep God’s laws.
God gave the Jewish people the 10 ______and other rules to live by (contained in the ______, the first five books of the Bible), marking the beginning of Judaism as a structured religion.
What is the Torah known as? The main ______of the Jewish religion.
Abraham’s descendants ______as the twelve tribes of Israel and entered Egypt, where they were eventually ______.
______led the Jews out from captivity in Egypt.
Jewish civilization after the ______prospered in the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, originally headed by powerful kings like Saul, David and Solomon, who built the first great temple in Jerusalem.
In 586 BCE, the Babylonians overran ______(the holy city of the Jews), taking many captives into exile and destroying the temple.
The Babylonians were from the region known as ______which literally means the land between two rivers. Can you name the two rivers in modern day Iraq where Mesopotamia was located?
Do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers sound familiar? A second ______was built when the Jews returned about 538 BCE, to be destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
The single wall that remains of the temple, called the ______Wall, is to this day the most sacred place of the Jews.
Telling Time . . .
By the way, what does BCE stand for and what did it replace?
Before ______Era, which is the now politically correct term taking the place of BC (before Christ)
What does CE stand for? ______which takes the place of AD.
Did you know that AD is the acronym for the Latin term ______which means in the year of our Lord in English?
Exodus
Some of the Jews ______to Babylon migrated along trade routes further eastwards into central Asia, even reaching India and China.
Under the ______, Jews spread across the Roman Empire, and settled in many parts of Europe.
Does anyone know what these exiles of the Jews from their holy land were called? ______
Jewish beliefs cont.
The ______consists of the five books revealed to Moses, also called the Pentateuch, and is the most important part of the ______Bible.
It tells the story of creation, the covenant with ______and the Exodus from Egypt. It also contains the details of the laws given to Moses, the ______Commandments
The name for a Jewish place of worship is a ______.
The Hebrew word for God is ______.
Jewish Holidays
Rosh ______-- The beginning of the Jewish New Year
______-- The Day of Atonement, the last 10 days of penitence which marks the opening of the New Year.
______-- An eight day festival which commemorates the re-dedication of the temple in Jerusalem after expelling the occupying Syrians in 164 BCE
______(Pesach): Week long memorial retelling the Israelites’ release from Egypt
______---Coming of age for boys aged 13. In liberal traditions, an equivalent ceremony (Bat Mitzvah) is carried out for girls
Shabbat (______): Day of rest, worship and fasting, from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday