Deck 2: The Promised Land: Geography, History, and Importance

Question 1

Discuss the value of the Bible as a historical document. Can it ever be used as a reliable historical work? What other methods and materials are used to supplement our knowledge of the biblical period?

Answer 1

no answer

Question 2

Trace the development of the terms "Israel" and "Judah" over time.

Answer 2

no answer

Question 3

In what ways did the period known as the Babylonian Exile function "as the impetus for preserving, editing, and developing the writings of the Hebrew Bible"?

Answer 3

no answer

Question 4

What significance did the land of Israel hold for the authors of the Bible?

Question 5

Canaan is another name for the land of Israel.

Question 6

The name "Israel" can refer to just the northern kingdom of Israel.

Question 7

The words "Jew" and "Judaism" are derived from the name "Judah."

Question 8

The Israelites were the first inhabitants of Israel.

Question 9

The terms "Levant" and "Canaan" are equivalent.

Question 10

Mesopotamia means "in the middle of the rivers."

Question 11

Biblical stories recognize the similar language, culture, and religions with Ammon, Moab, and Edom by depicting their founding ancestors as close relatives to Israel's ancestors.

Question 12

The political structure of Ammon, Moab, and Edom is best described as a collection of city-states.

Question 13

The Fertile Crescent was linked by shared culture, by related language, and, at times, by imperial control.

Question 14

The Philistines were part of a group of Sea Peoples who practiced circumcision.

Question 15

Throughout the course of biblical history, Egypt was all of the following to Israel except:

A) military adversary
B) place of refuge
C) place of enslavement
D) all of the above

Question 16

Israel's southern border is frequently identified with:

A) Zoar
B) Beer-sheba
C) Dan
D) Kadesh-barnea

Question 17

The traditional eastern boundary of Israel is:

A) Egypt
B) Shephelah
C) the Jordan River
D) the Mediterranean Sea

Question 18

All controlled the arc of the Fertile Crescent into the Levant at some point except?

A) Assyria
B) Persia
C) Israel
D) Babylonia

Question 19

The group of city-states that formed diplomatic alliances and intermarried with the royal family of Israel is known as:

A) Phoenicia
B) Hatti
C) Philistia
D) Edom

Question 20

All are cities of the Philistines except:

A) Gaza
B) Ashdod
C) Ashkelon
D) Aram

Question 21

All are kingdoms east of the Jordan River except:

A) Ammon
B) Aram
C) Edom
D) Moab

Question 22

The Assyrian empire was conquered by:

A) Egypt
B) Babylonia
C) Persia
D) Israel

Question 23

____________ major north-south route(s) connected Egypt to the kingdoms of the Levant:

A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four

Question 24

The Babylonian Exile occurred in the __________ century bce.

A) eighth
B) seventh
C) sixth
D) fifth

Question 25

Judeans living in exile remembered Yahweh's covenant with their king, __________, to establish an eternal kingdom.

A) Absalom
B) Zedekiah
C) Solomon
D) David

Question 26

Psalm 137 portrays all of the following except:

A) a theological explanation for the fall of Jerusalem
B) a grappling with the question of the worship of Yahweh outside Jerusalem
C) a refusal to sing for their captors
D) a wish for vengeance against Judah's adversaries

Question 27

The term "Israel" can refer to all of the following except:

A) Jacob
B) the twelve tribes
C) the southern kingdom
D) the northern kingdom

Question 28

The capital of Northern Israel was:

A) Samaria
B) Jerusalem
C) Persepolis
D) Horeb

Question 29

The king who released the deportees from Babylon in 538 bce was:

A) Ahab
B) Cyrus
C) Sennacherib
D) Alexander

Question 30

All are names for the southern kingdom except:

A) Judah
B) Yehud
C) Judea
D) Yahad

Question 31

A large portion of the inhabitants of the northern kingdom relocated into _____________ after the Assyrian conquest.

A) Egypt
B) Babylonia
C) Judah
D) Midian

Question 32

The ____________ Empire is described as "the rod" of Yahweh's anger that was used to punish his sinful people.

A) Assyrian
B) Babylonian
C) Persian
D) Egyptian

Question 33

The ____________ blame everyone, including the common men and women of Israel and Judah, for the Babylonian exile.

A) prophets
B) priests
C) elders
D) kings

Question 34

Another name for Jerusalem is:

A) Zion
B) Shechem
C) Ur
D) Megiddo

Question 35

_____________ conquered _____________ in 539 BCE and maintained control of the Levant until 332 BCE.

Question 36

The term _______________ refers to the lands adjacent to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, the western part of the Near East between modern Turkey and Egypt.

Question 37

__________________ has enabled archaeologists to dated excavated materials with greater accuracy.

Question 38

The practice of ________________ led to the resettling of conquered inhabitants to a new region of the conqueror's empire.

Question 39

The major international route that ran from Arabia to Damascus was called _____________________.

Question 40

The twelve tribes of Israel were named after______________.

Question 41

_____________ was a group of city-states on the northwest portion of the Fertile Crescent along the Mediterranean.

Question 42

Judah, the tribe of King_______________, became the southern kingdom when the ten northern tribes broke away from the united monarchy.

Question 43

The word "Palestine" is derived from the word for _______________.

Question 44

The state that destroyed Samaria in 722 bce was__________________.