Israel Literature

• Israel is known to be the _.

  Jewish Republic of Asia
• Israel is surrounded by the Arab States - _,_,_, and _.

  Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan
• Israel is part of the historic land called _, which we believed the Holy Land where Jewish and Christian faith began.

  Palestine
• The capital of Israel is _, the holy city for the Christians, and for the Jews


  Jerusalem
• Jews are also known as _.

  Hebrews
• The _ belongs to the oldest living literature in the world.

  Hebrew Literature
• It is one of the most profound because of its religious aspect and the foundation of the Holy Bible and the Talmud.

  Hebrew Literature
• It is one of the most profound because of its religious aspect and the foundation of the _ and the _.

  Holy Bible

  Talmud
• The _ is regarded as the noblest monument of the ancient literature, a collection of books whose universal appeal lies in its poetic imagery, forceful narrative, and noble superior religious ideas.

  Bible
• The _ is regarded as the noblest monument of the ancient literature, a collection of books whose universal appeal lies in its _

  • poetic imagery;
  • forceful narrative; and
  • noble superior religious ideas
• The greatest literature the Israelites produced is embodied in the Bible, which is composed of two divisions:

  • Old Testament
  • New Testament
• The Bible is replete with different literary types:

  • The narrative
  • Lyric
  • The drama
• Even after _, their psalms are the most moving and most sublime collection of religious poems, thus, making the psalms the greatest and most popular collection of religious poetry.

  3,000 years
• Compared with the poetry of most nations, the ancient poetry of Israel has no rhyme nor regularity of rhythm. Its beauty lies in the balanced symmetry of clauses or its parallelism.
• In what Bible verse does the Parable of the Lost Son can be found?

  Luke 15: 11-32
• Who among the father's sons wanted to have his estate share?

  Younger son
• After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country.
• So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
• He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.