Online Questions: Ancient Hebrews Part 1
Abraham: Jonathan
Vocabulary:
1. Covenant
2. Descendant
3. Sacrifice
Review:
4. When was Abraham born?
5. What was Abraham originally called?
6. Where was Abraham born?
7. Why is Abraham’s religion different than the religions practiced by the Mesopotamian and Egyptian people?
Deeper Understanding and Thinking:
8. What was the covenant made between god and Abraham according to the Torah?
9. Why is Abraham considered the “father of Hebrews”?
10. According to the Torah how did god “test” Abraham’s faith and obedience?
11. Why didn’t Abraham sacrifice his son? Explain.
12. What were Abraham’s 2 greatest contributions to the ancient Hebrews and Judaism?
Moses: Alison
Vocabulary:
1. Prophet
2. Plague
3. Exodus
4. Ten Commandments
5. Sabbath
Review:
6. According to the book why did the Egyptian pharaohs enslave the ancient Hebrews?
7. According to the Torah how did Moses convince the pharaoh to free the ancient Hebrew slaves? Explain.
8. According to the Torah how did Moses defeat the Egyptian army?
9. According to the Torah how did Moses “come up” with the Ten Commandments? Explain.
Deeper Understanding & Thinking.
10. What was the covenant between the ancient Hebrews and god according to the Torah (related to the 10 Commandments)?
11. What were Moses’ 2 greatest contributions to the ancient Hebrews and Judaism?
King David: Steven
Vocabulary:
1. Ark of the Covenant
Review:
2. Who was Goliath?
3. According to the Torah why did David have to beat Goliath?
4. According to the Torah how did David defeat Goliath? Explain.
5. What were the names of the two parts of the Hebrew land that David unified?
Deeper Understanding & Thinking?
6. Why was the capital city of Jerusalem consired a holy city? Explain.
7. What steps did King David take to make the new kingdom stronger? Explain.
8. What was King David’s greatest contribution to the ancient Hebrews and Judaism?
King Solomon: Hector & Laura
Vocabulary:
1. Taxes
2. Temple
3. Resentment
Review:
4. Why did Solomon want to build a great temple? Explain.
5. What actions did King Solomon take to build the temple?
6. Why were some Hebrews angry at King Solomon?
Deeper Understanding & Thinking:
7. What happened to the Kingdom of Israel near King Solomon’s death? Explain
8. What was King Solomon’s greatest contribution to the ancient Hebrews and Judaism?
8 comments:
Abraham
1. Covenant: a promised to do something.
2. Descendant: a daughter, grandson, or son.
3. Sacrifice: killing a person or animal to honor god.
4. Abraham was born in 2,000 B.C.E.
5. Abraham was originally called Abram.
6. Abraham was born in the city of Ur in Mesopotamia.
7. Everybody else believed in many gods but Abraham believed in one true god.
8. God covenant that he would make Abraham the father of a great nation people.
9. Abraham is the father of the Hebrews because they descended from Abraham.
10. God ask Abraham to sacrifice his only son Isaac.
11. God sent a angel to stop Abraham from killing his son because Abraham was faithful.
12. Abraham introduces the belief in a single god. And because of his covenant the reward was the Promised Land called Canaan
jonathan lopez
Vocabulary
Taxes: A sum of money demanded by a government for it supports or for specific facilities or services, levied upon incomes property, sales, etc.
A burdensome charge, obligation, duty, or demand.
Temple: usually initial capital letter) any of the three successive houses of worship in Jerusalem in use by the Jews in Biblical times, the first built by Solomon, the second by Zerubbabel, and the third by Herod.
Resentment: the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult.
Review:
4. Solomon wanted to build a great temple in Jerusalem to house the Ark of the Covenant.
5. King Solomon takes taxes from his people heavily to build the temple.
6. Some people were angry with Solomon because he forced his people to work on the construction of the temple.
7.Near King Solomon death their resentment exploded. In 931 B.C.E, the northern tribes broke away and became a separate Kingdom of Israel.
8.The greatest contribution is the great temple.
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Moses
1. Prophet: A person who interprets others.
2. Plague: A disaster sent by god as a punishment.
3. Exodus: the separation of Hebrews from Egypt
4. Ten Commandments: Ten laws that god gave to Moses.
5. Sabbath: One day a week, to use for worship and rest.
6. The pharaoh enslaves the ancient Hebrews because Hebrews “increased in number and became very powerful”. The pharaoh was afraid of them that’s why he made them slaves.
7. Moses convinces the pharaoh, the pharaoh toad that Moses was the one that was killing the first born son on every Egyptian family and the one that killed his son.
8. Moses defeated the Egyptians army by raised his staff, got every one safely to the other side; then the water flooded over them and drown them. God was with them.
9. God tells Moses his ten commandments and Moses engraved them on two stones. tablets.
10. If the ancients Hebrews follow the ten commandments god will protect the .If the don’t follow the ten commandments got will sent them a plague and kill all there sons.
11. He led Hebrews out of Egypt.
He gave Judaism the Ten Commandments.
Alison Perez
King Solomon
Taxes- An necessary payment on in comes sales.
Temple- A building for religious worship.
Resentment- To feel anger at somebody.
4 He wanted to make temples to be powerful.
5 It became powerful symbols
6 because Solomon taxed his people to the Hebrews of there faith in heavily to
buy gold cedar wood copper and
7 Near his death their Resenment exploded other material.
8 his greatest contribution was his temple
hector hernandez
Jonathan,
Number 8 is incomplete. What would Abraham have to do? Most of the explanations are a little too short.
Good job over all
Mr. PPD
Maite,
Good to see you doing your work. I just would like to see you define key terms in your own words and not copying from a dictionary.
Mr. PPD
Alison,
DO not forget that a prophet is "related" to interpreting the word of god.
Great work as usual!
Mr. PPD
Hector,
Numbers 4, 7 and 8 are incomplete.
Mr. PPD
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