World Religions - Judaism• Sometime between 2000 and 1500 BC a new people appeared in Southwest Asia,

the ___________________

• The ________ traces the origin of the Hebrews to a man named ___________________

• ________ told Abraham to take his family on a long journey west from _____________________

to a new land

• The land they settled in was ______________, and Abraham’s descendents lived there many years before leaving for __________ to escape a famine

• They continued to live well and prosper in Egypt

• The success of the Hebrews worried Egypt’s ruler, the ____________________ -- He feared that they might soon become too powerful. To stop this from happening, the

pharaoh made the Hebrews ________________

• While they were enslaved in Egypt a man named _______________ appeared among the Hebrews

• Moses went to the pharaoh and demanded that he _________ the Hebrews, but pharaoh refused. Soon afterward a series of terrible _____________, or disasters, struck Egypt

• The plagues frightened the pharaoh so much that he agreed to free the Hebrews

• Moses led his people out of Egypt in a journey called the ______________________

World Religions - Judaism

• While Moses was on the mountain, God gave him two stone tablets. On the tablets was written _____________________ known as the

_______________________________-- These laws shaped Hebrew society.

• Once the Hebrews reached Canaan, they had to _____________ to gain control of the land

• After they conquered Canaan and settled down on the land, the Hebrews became known as the

_______________________

• Through the mid-100s BC, the Israelites built a rich and expansive kingdom, enabling them to build a great ___________ to God in Jerusalem called _____________________

• After fleeing Egypt, the Hebrews wandered through the desert, trying to return to Canaan, eventually

reaching a place called ________________________________.

• However, when one of their Kings died they could not agree on the next King, and the kingdom ________ into two parts

• One part was called __________, the other part was called _______________

• The people of Judah became known as _________

• Israel eventually fell to invaders about 722 BC. Judah lasted until 586 BC, when invaders captured Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon’s temple

• When the Jews scattered across southwest Asia as a result, this was known as the ___________________

• Some Jews eventually returned to Jerusalem when their invaders were conquered, only to be conquered again by the _________________________

• The Jews rebelled against the Romans, and as punishment their ______________ were destroyed and many were enslaved, leading again to many Jews __________________

from their homelands