Genesis | Exodus/Leviticus | Joshua/Judges | The Book of Ruth | The Rise of the Monarchy |
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What is two?
The number of creation stories
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Who is Moses?
The one Israelite boy who was saved by being sent down the Nile and being raised in the pharaoh's household
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What is the Battle of Jericho?
The battle won by the Israelites marching around the powerful and famous city for seven days, blowing their horns
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Who is Naomi?
Ruth's mother in law
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Who is Samuel?
The judge/prophet who anointed the first two kings of Israel
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What is the first creation story?
In this story, humans are created last and man and woman are created at the same time
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What is the burning bush?
The place from where God calls Moses and instructs him what to do
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What is Joshua?
The book that has a more positive spin on the time of the judges, suggesting a complete annihilation of their enemies and total control over the Promised Land
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What is Ruth gleans in Boaz's field?
How Ruth and Boaz meet
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What are David's major accomplishments?
Unification of the 12 tribes, capturing Jerusalem and establishing it as the capital, victory over the Philistines
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What are the similarities between the two creation stories?
Only one God creates, there is a day of rest in both stories, God has a plan for creation, and everything is created good
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What is Mount Sinai?
The place where Moses was given the Ten Commandments
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What is the ban?
Approved by God, Israelites would completely destroy their enemies, their enemies' land and animals, burn it to the ground and offer it up as a sacrifice to God
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What is Moab?
Ruth's native land
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What is the Temple?
What was promised by God during David's reign and built by his son, Solomon
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What is the second creation story?
In this creation story, God is portrayed as being anthropomorphic
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Who are Caleb and Joshua?
The only two of the 12 spies who trusted in God that the Israelites could take on the Canaanites and take the Promised Land for themselves
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Who is Samson?
The judge who book his Nazorite vows and was captured by the Philistines but ultimately defeated them by sacrificing himself and bringing down the pillars in their city
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What is the levirate marriage law?
The law approves of the marriage of a widow to the closest relative of her deceased husband and states that the 1st son of the new marriage is the son of the 1st (deceased) husband
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What is wisdom?
Early on in his reign, Solomon asks God for this and only this
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What is the Babylonian Exlie?
The historical context in which the final version of the Great Flood was written
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What is the number of laws in the Book of Leviticus?
613
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Who is Deborah?
The judge who fought alongside General Barak and had a prophecy that the Canaanites would fall at the hands of a woman
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Who is Orpah?
The name of Naomi's other daughter in law who returned to her family in Moab
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Who is Solomon?
The last king of the united kingdom of Israel
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