| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Torah | 1st 5 books of the Old Testament |
| Talmud | commentary about the Torah |
| Covenant | agreement between God and Abraham |
| Abraham | Patriarch of Judaism |
| Moses | Leader of Jews when realesed from Pharoah (10 commandments) |
| Exodus | When Israelites left Eygypt |
| Passover | 1st born was killed (1 of the 10 plagues) |
| Shema | Declaration of Faith in one God (prayer that Jews say before meals) |
| Yahweh | Another word for God in Judaism |
| Rabbi | priest in Judaism |
| Sabbath | From Friday sunday to Saturday sunday in the Jewish faith |
| synagogue | Where jews go to worship |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| prophets | The people that told people about God |
| Messiah | The savior that Jews believe is going to come and save them |
| Patriarchs | father or founder of a race, or tribe |
| Ten Commandments | What moses recieved from God to give to the people of Israel |
| Adonai | another word for Lord in Judaism |
| Gospel | the first 5 books of the New Testament |
| Mary | The mother of Jesus |
| Joseph | Earthly father of Jesus (carpenter) |
| Jesus | savior, son of god/son of man |
| Nazareth | the city where Jesus grew up |
| Bethlehem | Where Jesus was born |
| Jerusalem | The holy city of Israel |
| John the Babtist | cousin of Jesus, the one who prepared the way for him- |
| apostles | the followers of Jesus who carried the message of Christianity into the world |
| Parables | storys (that Jesus told) to explain a bigger meaning |
| The Sermon on the Mount | the first major sermon delivered by Jesus containing the beautitudes |
| The Beatitudes | 8 sayings of Jesus in the sermon on the mount "blessed" |
| Messiah | Jesus, the savior |
| Son of Man | a title for jesus that portrayed him as a man too |
| Kingdom of God | another word for heaven in christianity |
| Pentecost | The tongues of fire-when many people heard the gospel in their own language from the apostles (opposit of the tower of babbel) |
| Resurrection | the rising of Jesus after his death and burial |
| Saul/Paul | first a persecutor of Christians then he was converted and spread the Gospel evrywhere-wrote many letters to different citys/towns |
| Holy Spirit | The spirit of God (part of the trinity) |
| Trinity | The Holy Spirit, Son and Father |
| Roman Catholic | of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church |
| Protestant | a denomination of Christianity |
| Muslim | A person who follows the religion Islam |
| Muhammad | The founder of the religion Islam |
| Allah | The word for God in Islam |
| Koran | The revelations of Muhammed (the holy book of Islam) |
| Imam | A person who leads religious worship in Islam |
| Mosque | where muslims worship |
| Ka'ba | the big black cube |
| Mecca | The holy city in the religion Islam |
| Hijra | the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to medina |
| Five pillars | The core beliefs of Islam |
| Shahadah | confesion of faith in Islam |
| Jihad | 'holy war' |
| Hadith | storys about Muhammad |
| Ramadan | the month where Muslims fast |
| Hajj | Pilgrimage to mecca |
| Caste | a social system in India |
| karma | the belief that what you do in this life affects things later |
| Yoga | 'union with god' |
| Shiva | The destroyer god in Hunduism |
| Brahman | the total escence of everything (Hinduism) |
| Brahma | the creator god (Hinduism) |
| Vishnu | the preserver god (Hinduism) |
| Krishna | a reincarnation of Vishnu-one of the most highly revered deities (Hinduism) |
| Vedas | the entire body of the Hindu sacred writings |
| Upanishads | revelations of priests long ago (Hinduism) |
| Bhagavad-gita | 'song of god' (Hinduism) |
| moksha | liberation from the cycle of rebirth, bliss (nirana) (Hinduism) |
| reincarnation | rebirth of a soul after death into a new body |
| atman | the god inside one's self |
| Siddartha Gautama | The founder of buddhism |
| 4 noble truths | Life is suffering, desire causes suffering, to end desire is to end suffering, the way to do this is to follow the 8 fold path |
| Eightfold path | ight View/Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration (the middle way) |
| Mahayana | type of Buddhism practiced in northern asia |
| Zen | A type of buddhism that concentrates on religious enlightenment by meditation |
| The Budha | Siddartha guatama-his name when he became enlightened |
| lama | a priest or monk (buddhism) |
| satori | sudden spritiual enlightenment |
| The Three jewels | refuge in the Budha, refuge in the sangha, and refuge in the dharma |
| Sangha | buddhist community |
| Dharma | teachings of the Budha |
| Bodhisattva | a person who gives up nirvana to help save others |
| Nirvana | enlightenment, pure bliss |
| Four passing sights | the sights that Siddartha saw when he went out of the palace-death,sickness,old age, and a monk |
| The middle way | the teaching that Budha tried to have everyone realize-not total indulgence but not total astetiscm either |
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