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The story of God’s actions and the people’s responses over many centuries |
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It literally means “the study of beginnings” |
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The name the Greeks and Romans called the Promised Land |
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The northern part of the Holy Land |
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The middle portion of the Holy Land |
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The southern part of the Holy Land |
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The most spectacular, and in many ways the most influential, of all ancient leaders |
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A society that combined both Greek and older oriental traditions |
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A term meaning “love of wisdom” |
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A Jewish historian who mentioned Jesus in his writings toward the end of the first century C.E., roughly sixty years after Jesus’ death |
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The Roman historian who referred to Jesus in his account of a fire that burned Rome in the year 64 C.E., for which the emperor Nero supposedly blamed the Christians |
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A governor of one of the Roman provinces in Asia Minor about the year 110 C.E.; he wrote to the emperor Trajan for advice on what to do about the Christians |
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In a discussion of the emperor Claudius, this Roman historian and lawyer says that Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome because of the riots they were constantly causing, “on the investigation of Chrestus” |
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