Chapter 4 Lesson 3

The Development of of Judaism

​Chapter 4 Lesson 3

• The Families of Judeans that were exiled spent 70 years away from from Judah they became known as the Jews and their religion as Judaism.

• Since the temple was destroyed small groups of Jews began to meet on the Sabbath in Jewish Houses of worship known as synagogues

• The Sabbath started at sundown on Friday and lasted until nightfall on Saturday.

• Worship meant that Jews prayed and talked about their history and religion. Jews still observe the sabbath today.

​Return to Judah

Multiple Choice

What does synagogue mean?

• Jews Prayed and talked about their religion.

• Jews worship from sundown on Friday till nightfall on Saturday

• A small house of worship for the Jews

• Its the time that they start to worship and pray seven times a day.

• Some Jews accepted Babylon as their home, others hoped to return to Judah.

• The dream of returning came true when Persians started sweeping across South Asia.

• 538 BCE the Persians defeated the Chaldeans

• Persian King Cyrus II allowed the Jews to return to Judah

​Rebuilding Judah

Multiple Choice

Who defeated the Chaldeans and allowed the Jews to return to Judah?

• The Phoenician's

• The Canaanites

• The Philistines

• The Persians

Multiple Choice

Once the Jews returned to Judah they elected a New King to rule their society.

• True

• False

• Some Jews stayed in Babylon & some returned toJudah.

• They rebuilt the temple in Judah to replace destroyed one. They called it Second temple.

• Persians chose officials to rule Judah and the Jews were was not allowed to have their own King.

• Priests and religious scribes who had a deep understanding of the Jewish religion guided the society.

• One Scribe Ezra led the Jews in writing Five books of the Torah onto long scrolls of Parchment and added them to the Hebrew Bible.

Multiple Choice

Who helped Jews write five books of the Torah that has been placed in the Hebrew bibles

• Jacob

• Moses

• King Cyrus II

• Ezra

​What IN THE HEBREW BIBLE?

• 24 books written and collected over many centuries

• Organized in 3 main sections - The Torah, The Prophets and The Writings.

• Presents the laws and rules of the Israelites, culture of the people, Jewish history, literature, poetry and proverbs.

​First book of the bible

Genesis

• Israelites view of the beginning of human life.

• God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th

• God punished the world for wicked behavior with a flood and saved Noah and his family with an ark.

• After the flood God placed a Rainbow as his promise to never destroy it with a flood again.

• Explains that people in the world speaks different languages because citizens in Babel tried to build a tower to reach heaven.

• God Disapproved and made them speak different languages so they could not communicate or work together.

Open Ended

What is one thing that is written in the book of Genesis?

​The Book of Daniel

• Israelites believed that evil and suffering would be replaced by goodness.

• Daniel - A trusted advisor of a Babylonian king, was a Jew and refused to worship Babylonian Gods.

• Chaldeans threw him into a lion's den

• God protected him so his story is used to remind Jews that God will rescue them.

• Christians and Jews share the hope and belief of a better world and good trumps evil.

Multiple Choice

What does the Book of Daniel teach?

• The beginning of human life

• God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th?

• The rainbow is a promise to never flood the world again

• God will protect his people

​Jewish Daily Life

• The Torah teaches Jews how to live daily

• Teaching shape family life, explained what foods to eat and what clothes to wear.

• Jews should help the poor, be honest and apply laws fairly

• Jews should know their individual worth, responsibility and loyalty to God.

Open Ended

What is one thing Jews should do according to the Torah?

The Jewish Family

• Ancient Israelites considered Family to be extremely Important.

• Jewish family is a patriarch and mothers and fathers have defined roles. Fathers die and sons lead the family.

• Women had rights and could make contracts, buy and sell property and go to court.

• Education is important.

• Fathers taught sons to worship God and learn to work. Boys learned to read the Torah.

• All students learned the alphabet and Jewish History

• Daughters were taught at home by their mothers.

• They learned to be wives, mothers, housekeepers.

• Learned Jewish teachings about food, the sabbath and holidays

• They Learned about women of the bible like Ruth and Naomi

Multiple Choice

Women were taught to read the Torah and worship God.

• True

• False

Ruth and Naomi

• There was a famine in Bethlehem so Naomi, Her husband and their two sons moved to the kingdom of Moab.

• Ruth who was not a Jew decided to Help Naomi when her two sons died.

• She moved back to Bethlehem to help Naomi.

Dietary Laws

• Jewish law means Jews can only eat certain foods.

• Ancient Jews could eat certain animals. Beef and Lamb and no pork.

• Food law is known as Kashrut ( that which is proper)

• Todays Jewish food Laws is called Kosher

• Kosher means animals must be killed a certain way, inspected salted and soaked in water. Can't eat meat and dairy products together.

Multiple Choice

Why do Jewish people follow Kosher laws?

• To show obedience to God

• To keep their bodies clean

• To protect the animals

• To make sure the meat is clean