Bellringer Quiz:Answer the following questions

1. What is the name given to a group of people who wander?

2. How did the Hebrews earn a living?

3. What were three materials that the Hebrews were famous for working with?

Answers

1. Nomad

2. Trading and Herding

3. Gold, Copper, and Ivory

Guess the meaning

What’s the Difference?

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.