1. Who were Moses, Saul, David, and Solomon? What role did each play in Hebrew history?
2. What was the Babylonian Captivity? How did it end, and what was its significance in Hebrew history?
3. What does the Torah represent, and what is its central message?
4. How does Hebrew monotheism represent an important break with ancient Near Eastern religious thought? What did this conception of monotheism contribute to scientific thought, and what did it not contribute?
5. What was the Hebrew conception of the self and its relationship to God?  What role did the covenant play in this conception of identity?
6. How did Hebrew law break with the ancient Near Eastern legal tradition?  What was the legal status of women in Hebrew culture, and how did that status differ from women's position in other Near Eastern societies?
7. What was the Hebrew conception of historical time? How does it differ from that of other Near Eastern cultures? What role did the ideas of the Messiah and apocalypse play in this conception?
8. What did the prophets contribute to Hebrew religious thought? To what social and political conditions did they respond? How did the Hebrew conception of individualism develop through the thought?
9. What types of literature appear in the Bible? What themes or issues do each tend to explore? How have these scriptures influenced Western literature and ordinary language?
10. Why did Hebrew art almost exclusively take the forms of music, song, and dance? How did Hebrew music develop, and what did it pass on to later Western music?