A Brief History of Israel

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A Brief History of Israel

• Session 5
• Stories the Israelites Told

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Opening PrayerBirkat Hamazon

• A prayer in song by Debbie Friedman

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Introduction

• Tonights session will cover
• Genesis
• Esther
• Job
• Daniel
• Jonah
• Stories in biblical text told in poetry
• Presentation is prose

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Stories of Long Ago

• Genesis 11-24a Genesis 24b-25 Genesis
  31-24 Genesis 41-16
• Adam
• Eve
• Cain
• Abel
• Genesis 69-917
• Noah
• Genesis 111-9
• Tower of Babel

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EstherEsther 11-103

• Esther / Hadassah
• King Ahasuerus / Xerxes
• Queen Vashti
• Mordecai
• Haman

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Jobs TrialsJob11-326 381-4210

• Job
• Jobs Friends
• Eliphaz
• Bildad
• Zophar

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Daniel in BabylonDaniel 11-1213

• Daniel / Belteshazzar
• Hananiah / Shadrach
• Mishael / Meshach
• Azariah / Abednego
• King Nebuchadnezzar
• King Belshazzar
• King Cyrus

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JonahJonah 11-411

• Jonah

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Bibliography

• Tanakh The Holy Scriptures. New York The
  Jewish Publication Society, 1985.
• The HarperCollins Study Bible New Revised
  Standard Version. New York HarperCollins,
  Publishers, Inc., 1993.
• The Holy Bible Todays New International
  Version. Grand Rapids Zondervan, 2007.