Chapter 3 Overview
1. Abraham: Abram experienced a single loving God in an
age when people believed in countlessess gods
Father of Faith – covenant-Patriarch
Sarah
2. Isaac: Abraham’s son
Rebekah
3. Jacob: Israel- 12 sons= 12 tribes of Israel
Rachael
The Hebrews in Egypt: famine-150 years peacefully
then slaves
Jacob dies 1650
4. Joseph: one of Jacob’s sons- favorite- rose to power in
Egypt
5. Liberation from Egypt: Passover (Event and Celebration)
Exodus
6. Moses: delivered Israelites out of Egypt
7. The Sinai Covenant: covenant with entire people- system
of Jewish Law- cornorstone 10 Commandments
“ I will be your God, you will be my people”
9.The Kingdom Of Israel
10.Saul: 1st King of Israel
11. David: 1000 BCE Jerusalem= City of David
Pilitical Palace
Religious- ark of the Covenant
Greatest King
12. Solomon- Built Temple
13. The Kingdom Divided: North wanted relief from taxes
and labor thus wouldn’t recognize
Solomon’s son as king
721 BCE Assyrian’s destroyed North
14.Babylonian Captivity: 598 BCE- leading citizens of
Judah were carried off as captives into
Babylon
Diaspora – remnant
587- Temple Destroyed- Jerusalem
15. Isaiah: prophet of Judah
“ South will be destroyed…stump remain…”
16. Jeremiah: prophet in Babylon – Exile
17. Return of the remnant: 539 BCE Persians overcame
Babylonians and allowed them to return to their
native land - rebuilt Temple- 515 completed
18. Beginning of Judaism: Jew- Judah No longer a
political nation under a king but rather a religious
community under a new form of leader- High Priest
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