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Judaism and Christianity

Judaism and Christianity. What do you KNOW about Judaism and Christianity?. The Big Idea. Students will understand that Judaism and Christianity share a great deal and helped shape ideas in history. Lesson #1: The Covenant. Objectives

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Judaism and Christianity

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  1. Judaism and Christianity

  2. What do you KNOW about Judaism and Christianity?

  3. The Big Idea • Students will understand that Judaism and Christianity share a great deal and helped shape ideas in history.

  4. Lesson #1: The Covenant • Objectives • Identify the Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible and their parts, and recognize their importance to Jews and Christians. • Understand Abraham’s covenant with God and his role as patriarch for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

  5. How was Earth made?

  6. What is the meaning of life?

  7. What happens to us when we die?

  8. Human beings have asked these questions for centuries and many have found answers in the form of religious faith.

  9. Vocabulary • Scripture – sacred writings that are believed to be the word of God. • Bible – simply means “book” • Covenant – a relationship in which two parties agree to depend on each other • Monotheism – the religious belief that there is only one divine being • Sacrifice – to kill a living creature as an offering to a god • Patriarch – a man who is a founder or father of a group of people

  10. The Bible • Most of what we know about Judaism and Christianity comes from the bible. • The bible is a collection of sacred writings, or Scripture, that is important to Jews and to Christians as well.

  11. The Bible • Christians and Jews both possess the Bible, but in different forms. • For Jews, the Bible, which they call the Tanach, consists only of those writings that Christians call the Old Testament.

  12. The Bible • The Jewish Bible is a collection of books written over a period of about a thousand years. • It includes the laws, history, poetry, letters, and legends of the ancient Hebrew, or Jewish, People.

  13. The Bible • For Christians, the Bible contains, besides the Old Testament, the New Testament, which consists of Christian writing added after the time of Christ

  14. The Beginning of Judaism • The first book of the Bible, Genesis, tells the story of a man name Abraham who lived many years ago- around 3,500 – 4,000 years ago.

  15. Mesopotamia

  16. Mesopotamia

  17. Covenant with God

  18. Abraham and Isaac

  19. Abraham and Isaac

  20. Why the Sacrifice?

  21. The Legacy of Abraham

  22. The idea of a covenant between God and a people has lasted for centuries. It has been the basis for three major religions and has changed the way millions of human beings have thought of themselves.

  23. Review Questions What is Scripture?

  24. Review Questions 2. What Scripture is sacred to Jews?

  25. Review Questions 3. What Scripture is sacred to Christians?

  26. Review Questions 4. What does the New Testament contain?

  27. Review Questions 5. How did God and Abraham enter into a covenant with each other?

  28. Review Questions 6. How did Abraham prove his faith in God?

  29. Lesson #2: The Commandments • Objectives • Describe the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt. • Explain the Ten Commandments and how God revealed them to Moses. • Understand the content of the Torah, or Pentateuch.

  30. 10 rules in order to make the world a better place

  31. Vocabulary • Torah – the first five books in the Bible; also known as the Books of Moses and the Pentateuch

  32. The Legacy of Abraham

  33. Canaan to Egypt

  34. Moses

  35. Moses

  36. Moses

  37. The Ten Commandments

  38. The Ten Commandments

  39. The Torah

  40. Abraham and Moses

  41. Review Questions What was the Exodus? According to the Bible, who was responsible for helping the Hebrews in it?

  42. Review Questions 2. Where does the Bible say that God revealed the Ten Commandments to Moses? How did God reveal them to him?

  43. Review Questions 3. What do the Ten Commandments represent to Jews?

  44. Review Questions 4. What five books comprise the Torah?

  45. Review Questions 5. What is the Pentateuch and what are some of the things contained in it?

  46. Lesson #3: The Prophets • Objectives • Understand the role of Prophets such as Amos and Isaiah in Judaism. • Understand what happened to the Jewish people during the almost 1,000 years between David’s Kingdom and the coming of Roman rule.

  47. The Prophets Warned their fellow Jews about religious failings and social injustices.

  48. Vocabulary • Prophet – in the Bible, a person who is inspired by God • Messiah – the anointed one; an agent of God who comes to set things right for God’s people

  49. The Kingdom of Israel • The Hebrews, or the Israelites, as they now became known, fought many wars with the other peoples and tribes who lived in Canaan.

  50. David and Goliath • David had a powerful faith in God. • His only weapons were his slingshot and his faith.

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