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| He is the first patriarch of Judaism (first person to accept monotheism). She is his wife. They were married for a long time and had no children. She suggested that he mate with her maid-servant, Hagar, so that he would have an heir. After that child was born, ____ became pregnant and forced _____ to throw out the maid and her son because she was jealous. Their son is Isaac. |
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| The first man and woman; she's created from a rib taken from him. They live in bliss in the Garden of Eden until _____ lets the serpent talk her into eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, which she then offers to ____. After they eat, they realize they're naked and become ashamed. God expels them from Eden as punishment and they have pain. |
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| The antagonist of Christ who will appear before the Second Coming, claiming to be Christ, and make serious trouble until Christ actually appears and defeats him, probably at the battle of ___, a great battle between the forces of good and evil that is to occur at the end of the world. ___ now means any great and decisive battle. |
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| An ancient city of Mesopotamia known for its wealth, luxury, and vice. |
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| Earthly paradise for Adam and Eve |
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| The one tree whose fruit God forbade Adam and Eve from eating. After doing so, they gain knowledge of good and evil. |
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| The two sons of Adam and Eve. ___ was older and a farmer; ___ was a shepherd. They made offerings to God, who liked ___'s lamb better than ___'s wheat. ___ was jealous and slew ___ for which he was forced to roam as an outcast, with a horrible mark on his forehead that showed that he killed his brother. He said, "Am I my brother's keeper?" |
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| The ___ in the Sermon on the Mount by Jesus described a "city that is set on a hill that cannot be hid," a place that was the "light of the world." This is referred to a place that would be a shining example and model to others, and the phrase is still used in that sense. |
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| A young Hebrew prophet who prayed even when the king had ordered that no one pray. For this, he was thrown into a lion's den, where he should have been killed. Instead, God saved him and he came out of the lion's den unhurt. A symbol of God's protection and the rewards of faith. |
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| A young boy who had the courage to fight the huge enemy, Goliath, whom he killed with a slingshot. He became king and was quite good, except lusting after a married woman (Bathsheba), whose husband he then sent to the front lines to get conveniently killed so David could marry her. They became the parents of Absalom and Solomon. |
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| A Jewish woman married to a Persian king. An evil man wanted to kill the Jews, but she stopped him by pleading with her husband. |
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| Nebuchadnezzar dreamed of someone having a gold head, silver arms, brass belly, iron legs, and ___. Daniel predicted the feet of clay were a weakness and foretold the fall of Nebuchadnezzar's empire. |
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| Four horsemen of the Apocalypse |
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| In his view of the end of the world, St. John saw four horses (white, red, black, and pale) representing the horrors of war: conquest, slaughter, famine, and death. |
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| An Israelite judge. In a major battle, when his forces were massively outnumbered, he fooled the opposition by making noise with trumpets that made the enemy think that the Hebrew forces were much larger than they really were. |
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| A huge warrior of the Philistines who was killed by a boy with a slingshot; a symbol of great power that can be overpowered. |
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| Samaritans lived in Samaria at the time of Jesus. They honored Moses as the only prophet, but were at odds with other Jews. Jesus told a parable of a Samaritan who did what he thought was right even under pressure from others. Now a good Samaritan is anyone who does the right and courageous thing. |
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| Gospels (Mark, Matthew, Luke, John) |
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| The "good news": first four books of the New Testament, all telling the life of Jesus, but from four different perspectives. "___" has come to mean any statement that is unquestionably true. |
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| She is the maid of Sarah that Abraham had a child with and he is the child, who became a wandering outcast. |
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| The king of the Hebrews who ordered John the Baptist beheaded for Salome's reward and who ordered all Jewish males under age two killed to prevent the "King of the Jews" from overthrowing him. |
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| The son of Abraham and Sarah. God tested Abraham's faith by ordering him to sacrifice ___ on the mountain. They went up to the mountain, with ___ just a bit suspicious that there was no animal to sacrifice (Abraham said that God would provide). Just as Abraham was about to slit ___'s throat, an angel stayed his hand, and he then saw a ram caught in nearby bushes, which he sacrificed instead. |
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| Son of Isaac and brother of Esau, whose birthright and blessing he stole when Isaac was on his deathbed. Later, he dreamt of a ladder that one could climb to get to heaven, with each rung being a good deed. He decided to apologize to Esau and then went on to have twelve sons, who became the twelve tribes of Israel. |
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| Jesus Christ/carpenter/lamb |
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| A figure of martyrdom, sacrifice, and loving forgiveness. He is often symbolized as either a carpenter (which he had actually been, along with Joseph) or a lamb (a common sacrificial animal). |
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| The wife of Ahab (a king of Israel) notorious for her evil and vicious actions. |
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| A symbol of loyalty and faith in God. God and Satan made a bet as to whether or not he would curse God, no matter what bad things occurred. God gave Satan free rein to test him; everything bad happened that could possible happen and still he didn't curse God. Eventually, God won the bet and gave him back all the things he had lost. |
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| Born before Jesus and announced his coming. Baptized Jesus and was one of his followers. After Jesus' death, he was captured by Herod for preaching Jesus' word. Salome danced for Herod, who offered her any gift in payment for her wonderful dancing. She requested the head of John the Baptist, which was delivered to her on a silver platter. |
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| A Hebrew whom God commanded to go to Nineveh to tell the people there to stop sinning. He didn't want to and tried to escape by boat, but God made a great storm. When the others on board realized that ___ was the person God was mad at, they threw him overboard. He was then swallowed by a "great fish". He lived inside it for several days, repented, and was regurgitated on the beach. He then went quickly to Nineveh and followed God's orders. A symbol of learning the hard way. |
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| Firstborn son of Rachel and Jacob, who loved him more than all his other sons because he loved the mother (Rachel) more than the mother of his other children (Leah). Joseph flaunted his father's favor, especially by showing off his many-colored coat that was a gift from his Dad. Other brothers were very jealous and planned to murder him; instead, they sold him into slavery and he was taken to Egypt, where his ability to interpret dreams led him to become the pharaoh's right-hand man. |
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| Joshua and the Battle of Jericho |
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| ___ succeeded Moses and led Israel in conquering Canaan. The fall of the battle of ___ was a major battle ending in victory for the Israelites. |
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| One of the twelve disciples of Jesus. He sold Jesus out to the Romans for thirty pieces of silver. He kissed Jesus in public so the Romans would know which man was Jesus and could arrest him. the "kiss of ___" is an act of betrayal, especially one that looks like a loving action. |
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| A man whom Jesus raised from the dead, even though he'd been buried for three days. A symbol of Jesus' power and of possibilities. |
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| One of Jesus' most famous miracles. Many people came to hear him preach; to feed the masses he multiplied a few ___ and ___. Everyone was fed with food to spare. Symbolizes a miraculous finding of resources when that seems impossible. |
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| ___ was Abraham's nephew and lived in Sodom until God destroyed it for being evil. He escaped, but his wife was turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back at the burning city. Lot had incestuous relationships with his daughters. |
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| Lucifer/Devil/Beelzebub/Flies |
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| ___ was originally the top angel and sat at God's right hand. He got jealous and tried a coup, which failed and so he got sent to Hell, where he is more commonly called the Devil or Satan. Beelzebub was originally a Philistine deity worshipped as the lord of the flies; that name (and image) got transferred to Christianity; in Paradise Lost, Beelzebub ranks next to Satan. |
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| The virgin mother of Jesus; who was told by the angel Gabriel that she would bear the son of God; and her husband, a carpenter. |
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| A prostitute who came to hear Jesus preach and was accepted by him and became a devout follower. Initially, his other followers were shocked, but he said, "Let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone," so they shut up. She is a symbol of absolute possibility of repentance and acceptance by God. |
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| Brothers who worked together to save the Israelites (Jews) from slavery in Egypt (they were still there from Joseph's time). ___ was the leader and God spoke to him, but he stuttered, so ___ actually spoke to the people and told them what God told ___. ___ led them across the Red Sea, which parted, and into the desert, where they roamed for many years. He went up to Mount Sinai, where God gave him the Ten Commandments. He was gone a long time and the people started to get nervous, so they built an idol to worship: a golden calf. When ___ came and found them worshiping an idol, he was so upset that he broke the tablets the commandments were on. After they destroyed the calf, he went back and got another copy of the commandments. |
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| Built the ark, on which all the animals on the earth went, two by two, to escape drowning in the great flood, which lasted 40 days and 40 nights. |
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| Largely the developer of Christianity as an organized system of beliefs; he took his information on the road and went preaching in towns all over the Middle East, just ahead of Romans out to kill him for being a rabble-rouser. After he left a town where he had preached, he often wrote numerous letters to his followers there, to keep them with the faith. The most famous are the Espistles (letters) to Corinthians. |
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| The first "pope" of the Christian church his name means "rock" in Latin and he provided the foundation for building the church itself, figuratively. |
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| The traditional enemies of the Hebrews, known for their barbarism and indifference to art and culture. |
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| A wastrel who returns home and is welcomed with open arms. Symbolizes the permanent chance for God's (or anyone's) forgiveness, no matter what one has done. |
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| Wives of Jacob. He fell in love with ___, the younger. Her father said Jacob could marry her if he worked for the farmer for seven years. Jacob did so. After the wedding, he lifted the veil, he found that he'd married ___, who had to marry first since she was older. He still wanted ___, so the father said Jacob could have her after another seven years of labor, which he did. Meanwhile, he and ___ turned out kids like crazy. |
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| ___ was a Hebrew whose son married ___, a Moabite (foreigner). After the son died, ___ chose to stay with ___ rather than returning to her own people. She is the first to convert to Judaism and a symbol of loyalty. |
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| He had great strength because he had never cut his hair (he was a Nazarite, his life consecrated the Lord). She was from the enemy tribe (the Philistines) and became his mistress and then betrayed him by cutting his hair while he slept. The Philistines captured and blinded him, but ___ eventually found enough strength to destroy his enemies by pulling down the pillars of the temple they were all in, even though doing so meant that he would die too. |
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| The desert where the Jews roamed for many years, before getting to the Promised Land. |
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| ___ and ___ were cities that God destroyed because their people were so sinful. |
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| King of the Hebrews, known for his wisdom. When two women appeared before him, both claiming that the same baby belonged to both of them, he ordered it cut in half, so each woman could have half. The woman who screamed not to cut the baby was given it. ___ determined that she must really love it, since she didn't want it to die. |
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| The Wise Men who followed the star to Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus the night he was born and brought the child gifts to honor his birth. Often called the "Adoration of the ___". |
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| An ___ is a person who is sent by God with a message for the people. the ___ of Jesus were Matthew, Peter, James (the Greater), John, Judas Iscariot, Matthias, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, James (The Lesser), Simon, and Thaddeus. |
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| ___ was one of the twelve apostles. He would not believe that Jesus was resurrected from the dead until he actually saw the wounds on Jesus after he reappeared. |
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