6th Grade Religion - Chapter 18

What does the Jewish feast of Hanukkah celebrate?

Hanukkah celebrates the deeds of the people of God who refused to give up their faith.

Essenes

Hasidim group that was ore persecuted by John Hyrcanus, and believed to have set up a community at Qumran on the Dead Sea

Megillah

Hebrew word for scroll

What does the Jewish feast of Purim celebrate?

It celebrates the day when God delivered the Jews from destruction.

How is it symbolic of the Resurrection of Christ?

It is symbolic of the Resurrection because Jonah spent three days in the belly of a fish just as Jesus rose from the dead after three days in the tomb.

Purim

Jewish feast recalling that through God's help Esther saved God's people

What is God's providence?

Providence is God's constant care for and protection of his people.

Ezra

a priest who also helped God's people. He called the people back to the faithfulness of God's law.

Malachi

a prophet who foresaw a day when God would come to judge his people, and mentioned a messenger who would prepare the way for repentance and true worship

Edom

a small area to the southeast of Judah

Esther

a virtuous Jewish girl who married the king of Persia. She prayed and fasted and, at great risk to herself, appealed to the king to save the Jews.

Tobit

a wealthy Jew living in Nineveh, Assyria. He had financial losses and then became blind and prayed that God would let him die because he was so miserable.

Book of Obadiah

reminds us that God is just. It presents the hope for the survival of the Jewish people and the return of the kingdom begun by David.

Parable

short story that has a message

Raphael

the angel that helped Tobit, Tobiah, and Sarah

Assyria

the country defeated by the actions of Judith

Hanukkah

the feast of lights

Babylonia

the place of exile that is the setting of the Book of Daniel

Books of the Maccabees

the writers of these books show us that God's providence saved his people, and allowed them to again follow their faith

Book of Joel

uses images to show the people the need for true repentance

Mordecai

Esther's guardian. He displeased a Persian nobleman named Haman, who plotted to destroy Mordecai and all Jews in the kingdom of Persia.

Book of Daniel

contains stories that express hope and tell of the importance of behavior that is acceptable to The Lord. It deals with the long years of Babylonian exile and Persian domination.

Book of Judith

describes how on one occasion God rescued the Jews from their enemies through one person's courage