Hebrews

Phoenician Alphabet

22 characters; no vowels;

Carthage

Major trading city on Northern African coast; home to Hannibal

Cedar

Type of tree used in ship building & major export to trade partners who lacked trees (Egypt)

Murex

Shellfish used for purple dye; harvested to extinction

Tyre

Center of the Phoeneican trade empire; located in modern day Lebanon

Aaron

Brother of Moses; did a lot of speaking for Moses due to his speech impediment

Abraham

Founder of Hebrew faith; Yahweh appeared to Abraham and told him to lead his followers to Canaan

Bithiah

Daughter of pharaoh; raised Moses

Burning Bush

Form that Yahweh first appeared to Moses in when he instructed Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery.

Canaan

Land promised to Abraham by Yahweh; stayed for 100 years; forced to leave due to drought.

Covenant

A sacred and binding agreement

Exodus

Literally means “a mass departure”; Second book of the Torah

Gershom

Son of Moses; name literally means “a stranger there”

Golden Calf

Religious idol made by Israelites; they wanted something to worship while they waited for Moses to come down from Mt. Sinai.

Isaac

Son of Abraham and Sarah

Jacob

Grandson of Abraham; Had 12 sons, who were the basis of the 12 tribes of Israel

Judaism

The religion the Hebrew people; people who follow this faith are known as the Israelites, the Jews, and/or the Hebrews

Midian

Place where Moses fled to after killing an Egyptian

Moses

Born in Egypt, put in a basket sent down the Nile River, found and raised as prince. Murders an Egyptian who was beating an Israelite. Visited by Yahweh and leads the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.

Mt. Sinai

Mountain where Yahweh met with Moses on several occasions, most notably to give him the Ten Commandments.

Patriarch

Male who is in charge of a family or tribe

Red Sea

Israelites escaped slavery in Egypt when Moses parted the this Sea. When safely on the other side, Moses closed the the Sea, drowning the Egyptian soldiers

Tanakh

The Hebrew Bible

Ten Commandments

List of rules given to Moses by God after he was atop Mt. Sinai for 3 days. Helped shape the moral laws of many nations.

Ten Plagues

10 diseases/blights God inflicted upon the Egyptians to convince the pharaoh to release the Israelites from slavery

Torah

The first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible

Ur

Town in Mesopotamia where Abraham was from

Yahweh

The one true God according to the Hebrew religion

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (his son Ishmael is a central figure in the Muslim faith)

In what 3 religions is Abraham considered an important founding figure?