The Israelites Test (Chapter 6)

This rabbi founded a school in the town of Yavneh to teach the Torah, after he persuaded the Romans to spare the city.

• Judas Maccabeus

• Moses

• Yohanah ben Zaccai

• Simon ben Kosiba

True of False:

Cyrus II, the Persian king, let Jews return to Judah and govern themselves.

• True

• False

________________ (two groups of people) wanted Canaan to control the trade routes across that country.

True or False:

The Essenes were priests who broke away from the Temple in Jerusalem and lived in Qumran near the Dead Sea.

• True

• False

_______________ formed the basic moral rules for many nations.

True of False:

The ancestors of the ancient Israelites were Abraham and his family.

• True

• False

______________ means Jews who lived out of Judah; Greek word that means "scattered."

Whom did early Israelites ask to choose a king for them?

• Daniel

• David

• Samuel

• Saul

True or False:

Judaism played a part in the development of Christianity and Islam.

• True

• False

____________ was the name given to Judaea by the Romans; refers to the Philistines