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exam 2

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Nazerite   a person who is consecrated to God, cannot drink or cut their hair, supposed to be extra holy, Samson was one  
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Philistines   a Canaanite group, the main antagonists in the book of Judges, Goliath was one, Samson killed many  
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Ptolemies   the followers of Ptolemy- one of Alexander the Great’s generals, they conquered the Egypt area  
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Seleucids   followers of another general, they conquered the Syria area and the rest of Asia Minor  
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Babylonian empire   586 B.C.E. conqurs Judah, destroys temple  
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Assyrian Empire   722 B.C.E. Assyria conques Isreal  
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Maccabean revolt   the revolt of the Jewish people against the Assyrian empire, lead by the H_____ family, began a brief period of Jewish self-rule  
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Chanukkah   the Jewish feast of lights, commemorates the time of destruction of the temple when the oil that was supposed to last for one day lasted for 8 days  
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Hellenization   the name for the Greek-ifying of any culture; came to the Holy Land during the time of Alexander the Great  
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Diaspora   Jews living outside of Israel/Judah  
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Deuteronomistic History   the Biblical writings that were …  
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Jericho and Hazor   Two of the cities that the Israelites conquered in their conquest of Canaan, applied the Ban  
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Israel   The northern portion of the Israelite land  
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Judah   the southern potion of the Israelite land  
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Alexander the great   greek who conquered Persia  
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