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 The Hebrews Diet:  Grains = wheat and barley  Bread = basic nourishment  Vegetables: lentils, beans, and cucumbers  Flavoring: onions, leeks, and garlic  Fruit: figs, dates, grapes, and pomegranates  Oil: olives  Meat: goat and sheep; fish if you lived by sea  Reserved for special occasions  Milk: goat  Sweet: honey  Salt: preservative  Drink: water and wine

 Fashion Materials: linen, wool, or goats hair Clothing: a loin cloth and a tunic that went to their ankles Shoes: made from animal hide and drawn together with cords  Removed indoors

 Lifestyle Nomadic - lived in tents and traveled from location to location in search of water and pastures for their livestock members in a family  Patriarchal society: the eldest, male member was the leader Tents: Divided into male and female sections Wealth: measured by size of flocks and herds

 Religion Polytheistic  El - the chief god  Asherah - the wife of El  Baal - the god of rain

 We are studying their sacred writings.

Where?

 Why was this land so significant? Canaan is the land promised to the Hebrews by God It was the center of the major trade route between Egypt and Mesopotamia  How did this trade route come to be?

Crescent shaped area of fertile land in the otherwise dry Middle East. Please, shade this region in on your maps.

 Geography matters: Israel was always in the midst of conquest, and their depiction of God as a warrior reflects that notion.

 Timeline – 1850 BC and 70 BC The Hebrew Scriptures covers the time period roughly between 1850 BC and 70 BC When?

 Why might it be important for us to study this material?

Nations/Empires  Egypt  Israel  Mesopotamia  Hittite Empire  Assyria Cities  Jerusalem  Ur of the Chaldeans  Babylon  Bethel Bodies of Water/Other Regions  Red Sea  Babylonia  Nile River  Euphrates River  Mediterranean Sea  Tigris River  Canaan  Sinai Work with your Noami Partners Highlight or fill in the following nations and bodies of water