| A | B |
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| JEW | an adherent of Judaism, and/or a child born of a Jewish mother |
| MOSES | prophet who authored Torah |
| RABBI | contemporary religious leader, a teacher who performs exegesis of scripture |
| EXILE | the period in which the Jews were removed from Israel and held in Babylon |
| TORAH | the first five books of the Bible |
| TALMUD | book of commentary, completed in early common era |
| EXODUS | when the Hebrews fled Egypt |
| PRIEST | a member of the tribe of Levi, assigned to perform sacrifices and temple rituals |
| ISRAEL | another name for ancestor Isaac; the kingdom of David and Solomon; the modern Jewish nation |
| KOSHER | rules for food and its preparation |
| HEBREW | the tribes which created the kingdom of Israel |
| GENTILE | a person who is not a Jew |
| ZIONISM | a 19th and 20th century movement to return the Jews to Israel |
| PROPHET | Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel had this role |
| ABRAHAM | the patriarch of the Hebrews and Arabs |
| HASIDIM | Orthodox Jewish mystics |
| COVENANT | a sacred agreement between God and the Hebrews |
| DIASPORA | the dispersion of the Jews around the Roman Empire in 70 C.E. |
| PHARISEE | a strict layman's organization in the first century |
| EXEGESIS | interpretation of scriptural passages |
| ORTHODOX | strictest branch of contemporary Judaism |
| REFORM | least strict branch of contemporary Judaism |
| SYNOGOGUE | modern Jewish house of worship |
| MONOTHEISM | the Jewish doctrine of the deity |
| APOCALYPTIC | later Old Testament prophets and the Pharisees had this view of the end of the world |
| CIRCUMCISION | a Jewish birthrite for males |
| ANTI-SEMITISM | prejudice or discrimination against Jews |
