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Bellringer Quiz:. Answer the following questions What is the name given to a group of people who wander? How did the Hebrews earn a living? What were three materials that the Hebrews were famous for working with?. Answers. Nomad Trading and Herding Gold, Copper, and Ivory.
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Bellringer Quiz: Answer the following questions What is the name given to a group of people who wander? How did the Hebrews earn a living? What were three materials that the Hebrews were famous for working with?
Answers • Nomad • Trading and Herding • Gold, Copper, and Ivory
Mono and Poly • Look at your prefixes • Mono- the term ‘mono’ means one or singular. • Poly- the term ‘poly’ means more than one
Polytheism • Take a minute on a piece of paper and try to figure out what the term polytheism means.
Answer • Polytheism is the worship of many gods. • Which civilizations that we studied worshiped more than one god?
Monotheism • Belief in only one God. • Why are you telling us this Yarnell?
~One and Only One~ • The Hebrews were the first civilization that believed in one and only one god. All other religions of the time believed in more than one god.
Another name for a god • Take two minutes; use anyone in the classroom ,except me, to determine another name for a god.
What is another name for a god? • Another name given to a god is a deity. • Deity- any supernatural being worshiped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force.
Easier of Harder • Did having one god make life easier or harder for the Hebrews? • How did the rest of the world react to the Hebrews only having one god?
A new religion is born • Judaism-the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud.
Religious Writings • Torah- the entire body of Jewish religious literature, law and teaching as contained chiefly in the Old Testament and Talmud.
Religious Writings Cont. • Talmud- The Jewish library of oral law and tradition.
Hebrew God • The Hebrew’s called their god, Yahweh.
Closure • Today we learned about polytheism, monotheism, deity, and the reasons the Hebrew religion was different from the rest of the worlds.