Download Chapter 5: Judaism

Ways to the Center, D.Carmody and T. Brink
Questions on chapter 5, Judaism
Identify the following individuals. Know when and where they lived.
Amos
Antiochus Epiphanes
Baal Shem Tov
Bar Kokhba
Ben Asher
Cyrus
Edith Stein
Elijah
Emperor Hadrian
Herod the Great
Job
Judah Halevi
Maccabees
Maimonides
Moses
Moses de Leon
Nebuchadnezzar
Nehemiah and Ezra
Philo
Rabbi Akiba
Rabbi Judah
The three patriarchs
Theodore Herzl
Zecharias Frankel
Locate and identify the significance following places
Qumran
Masada
Dead Sea
Jabneh
Cordoba
Know the original meaning of the following terms
aggadah
Hellenism
hermeneutics
apocalypse
Israel
Ashkenazim
Jew
baal
judges
Babylonian Exile
Kabbalah
Chariot mysticism
kosher
Conservative Judaism
Levites
Diaspora
Messiah
Early Hasidim
mezzuzah
el
mikvah
eschatology
Mishnah
Essenes
Orthodox Judaism
exegesis
Pentateuch
Exilarch
Pharisee
Gemara
pogrom
Gentiles
Rabbi
goyim
Reform Judaism
halakhah
Sadducees
Hasidism
Satan
Hebrew
Scribe
Sephardim
Shavuot
shtetl
Sukkot
synagogue
Talmud
Tanak
tefillin
theodicy
Thirteen articles
Torah
tzaddik
Yom Kippur
Zealot
Zionism
Zohar
Know the following dates and time periods
Life of Abraham
Beginning of Egyptian sojourn
Exodus from Egypt.
Beginning of King David’s rule in Jerusalem
Fall of Northern Kingdom (Israel) to Assyria
Fall of Southern Kingdom (Judah) to Babylon
Alexander the Great conquers Palestine
Revolt of the Maccabees
Romans conquer Jerusalem
Romans appoint Herod the Great
Romans destroy the Temple in Jerusalem
The date by which the canon of the Hebrew Scriptures had been established
The Mishnah is promulgated
Babylonian Talmud is completed
Muslims conquer the Middle East
Birth of Rashi in France
Birth of Maimonedes in Spain
Muslims re-conquer Jerusalem from Crusaders
Jews expelled from England and France
Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal
Jews begin to migrate to Palestine
Jews establish communities in U.S.A. – New Amsterdam, Rhode Island
Death of the Baal Shem Tov
Zionist movement begins
State of Israel founded
Be able to answer the following questions
How does one become Jewish in traditional Jewish law?
When did the Prophets begin to appear. What was their main message?
Who were the three most famous northern Prophets
Who were the two most famous southern Prophets
Which of David’s son followed him in the kingship?
Jewish law teaches the obligation to get married. What prophet ignored this? Why?
What prophet criticized king Jehoiakim. Why? Why did the Babylonians like and honor him?
Who is considered greater: Abraham, Moses, or David? Why?
Give examples of Wisdom Literature. What is its general message?
Under what influence may postmortem reward-and-punishment beliefs have entered Judaism?
What new stream of belief is represented in the Book of Daniel. At what period of Jewish
history was it probably written?
What relationship may exist between the Babylonian exile, and the emergence of a Judaism
that placed great emphasis on the observance of numerous behavioral commandments and
ritual practices?
What was the cause of the Maccabee revolt?
How did Herod the Great come to power? What was his general social and cultural goal?
What did the Essenes and the Zealots have in common. How did they differ?
What four beliefs did Pharisees share with their Christian competitors?
What did Scribes, Pharisees, and Rabbis all have in common?
What was the difference between the Temple and the Synagogue as institutions? Why did the
Synagogue become the major institution in Jewish life?
What measures did the Emperor Hadrian take, what was the Jewish response, and what was the
final outcome. When did this take place?
How is the Mishnah subdivided?
Give examples of land animals, birds, and fish which are considered essentially non-kosher.
What entire categories of animal are prohibited? What additional requirements exist for meat to
be kosher even after the animal is slaughtered? What two kinds of food cannot be mixed?
Where was the center of Jewish learning outside of Palestine in the centuries following the
destruction of the Temple?
What is meant by the proposition that Judaism is more ethical than theological?
Give examples of rules governing economic behavior. What are the attitudes of the Rabbis
toward marriage and wealth?
How many times do adult Jews pray daily? What adults are exempted?
Name the five most important holidays of the Jewish year? Which two were originally harvest
festivals? What does the minor festival of Hanukkah celebrate?
How did Jews fare under Muslim rule?
Who are the Masoretes? What did they do to biblical texts? When did they do it?
When and why did Sephardic Jews first go to Spain? When and why did they leave en masse?
In the time of Maimonides an interest in Torah study as the central goal of the Jew was being
challenged by a view that valued some other activity. What other activity?
When did Judah Halevi live, and how did he differ from Maimonides? Where did the Kabbalah
arise? What are the central foci of this brand of mysticism. What problem arose in the divine
essence? How does the focus of the Zohar differ from traditional rabbinic interest?
Who founded the Hasidic movement that still exists today? When and where? What was
unusual about male/female roles and ideals in the shtetl of Eastern Europe? In the Hasidic
tale in the textbook, how did Satan get God to turn against the Jews? How was the local Catholic
bishop converted into a servant of Satan? In what way did the Baal Shem Tov behave like a
Siberian or an Inuit shaman? What Platonic theme, linking the lower and higher worlds, is found
in the story? What quasi-magical amulet was given to him to open the gates, and by whom?:
How did the Enlightenment and political emancipation shake the foundations of traditional
Judaism? . What alternative to the chosen-people theme and the talmudic learning ideals did
the Reform Judaism movement propose. List three practices in which the Conservative
movement sides with Reform against Orthodoxy. There is some question as to whether
Reconstructionist Judaism is really a religion or Judaism, Why?
What is Zionism and who founded Zionism? What was his major contention that justified his
plans? What specific political event prompted his view?
Why did European Jews become urban rather than rural?
List several ways in which the role of women in traditional Judaism clashes with modern views.