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Bible 120
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Bible Studies
Undergraduate 1
02/13/2011

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Term
Bible or biblos
Definition
book
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Gospel or euangelion
Definition

good news

from the word called good news

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revelation
Definition
content or body shared
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covenant, testament, b'rit
Definition
bond or relation
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epistle
Definition
letter
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apocalypse
Definition

an unveiling

uncovering of something

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koine greek
Definition
new testament was written in this
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aramaic
Definition
Jesus spoke in this language at home.  First century Jews spoke this
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Hebrew
Definition

language of the temple and senegaug

Old Testament in this language

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autograph
Definition

original manuscript of the Bible

0 of these today

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hermanutics
Definition
the science of interpretation
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inspiration
Definition
breathed out by God
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inscprituration
Definition
the act of writting the text out
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canon
Definition

measuring reed

an authoritative list

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athanasius
Definition
first early christian to make a list of the new testament
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biblical critic
Definition
a serious student of the bible
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literary criticism
Definition
study of the literature
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linguistics criticism
Definition
study of the language
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historical criticism
Definition
look into the time and events
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textual critism
Definition
sort through copies
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hasidim
Definition

means puritan

the pious ones

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pharacies
Definition
are the seperated one
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hellenism
Definition
greek culture
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Alexander the Great
Definition

founded seventy cities and modeled them after the Greek style

was the cause for Greek and Orientals to mix

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ptolemies
Definition
Cleapatra
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seleucids
Definition
harsher on treatment of the Jews
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Mattathias of Modein
Definition

elderly priest

figure most related to former priest

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The Maccabeus/ Hasmoneas
Definition
won a major war
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hanukah
Definition
jewish festival of jews getting temple back from greeks
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pompey
Definition
conquest in the eastern end of the mediterannean basil
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Jew
Definition
citizen of Judah
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augustus
Definition
Jesus was born
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Tiberius
Definition
Jesus publically ministered and died
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cailagula
Definition

who demanded worship of himself and ordered his statue placed in the temple in Jerusalem.  He died before the order could be carried out.

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claudious
Definition

who expelled Jewish residents from Rome, including Aquila and Priscilla (Acts 18:2), for civil disturbance.

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Nero
Definition

who persecuted Christians, probably only in Rome, and under whom Peter and Paul were martyred.

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Vespacian
Definition
who as a general began to crush a Jewish revolt.  He returned to Rome to become emperor, and left completion of the military task to his son Titus. 
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domition
Definition

whose persecution of the church may have provided a background for Revelation, written to encourage oppressed Christians.

inugurated passive of Christians

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Jewish Roman War
Definition
first war. Temple was destroyed
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Greek and Romans
Definition

contributed to the spread of Christianity

roads, law, peace

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synagoug
Definition
gathering of ten Jewish men
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Temple
Definition

Solomon built

excile rebuilt

herod referbished

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priesthood
Definition
1000 members
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high priest
Definition
most importand of priest
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Sadducees
Definition
rejected believe in reserection of the dead
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Pharisees
Definition
Seperated one
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Sanbedrin
Definition
jewish court of 70
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Essenes
Definition

lived in Qumran

responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls

 

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qumran
Definition
near the northwest shore of the Dead Sea
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Zealots
Definition
were people who strongly wanted Jewish independence
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herodians
Definition
people who closely supported herod
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People of the land
Definition
: 85 to 90 percent of the population. These people have no political power or distinctive religious affiliation. They are typically poor. Many of Jesus’ followers would have come from this group.
Term
Coastal Plain
Definition
runs 120 miles from Tyre in the north to River Besor in the south
Term
shephelam
Definition
biblical term for the low hills and valleys
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hill country
Definition

includes the mountains of Samaria in the north, the plain of Benjamin in the center, and the hill country of Judah in the south.  These lands vary in elevation from 3,300 ft. to 1,300 ft.

Term
Jordan River Valley
Definition
about 165 miles from Dan to Dead Sea
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Tranjordan Plateau
Definition

consists of mountainous regions traversed by wadis or dry stream beds.  Today this region is part of Jordan.  

 

Term
Galilee
Definition
Northern region
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samaris
Definition
central region
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judea
Definition
southern region
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from dan to bersheeba
Definition
this identifiesthe entire land of isreal
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Herod the Great
Definition
was not jewish
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Greek phylosophy
Definition
human reason hold out best hope for human flurishing
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polytheism
Definition
belief in many gods
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monotheism
Definition
belief in one god
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mysterious religons
Definition
say the hop for human sucess is Nature itself
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septuigent (LXX)
Definition
translation of the old testament into greek
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gnosticism
Definition
knowledge of something
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superstitions
Definition

had a strong hold on most people in the Roman empire.  Use of magical formulas, consultation of horoscopes and oracles, divination, and the hiring of exorcists were all part of everyday life in the first century. 

 

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syncretism
Definition

syncretism common people simply combined various religious beliefs and superstitious practices.

 

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Mancionile Heresy
Definition
made his own small canon of the new testament
Term
carthage 397
Definition
sealed the cannon
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apagesis
Definition
seeing less in a text that what is really there
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eisegesis
Definition
reading things into scriptures deas that are not really there
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apostalicity
Definition
authorship by  an apostile or a close associat of an apostle
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exegesis
Definition
an accurate exposition of what the passage really says
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progressive revelation
Definition
revealing god over time using the bible
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special revelation
Definition
not given in general ways to all people but in specific wasys to selected individuals
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general revelation
Definition
natural theology. god created the world of momotheistic theology.
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doctrine of scripture
Definition
belief about sacred scripture and its nature and inspiration
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christology
Definition
beliefs about jesus and his role as savior
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theology
Definition
God talk
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fertile crescent
Definition
from eygpt to babylong and up
Term
negev
Definition
dry flat area
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