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| belief that there could be a God and if there is then He is so holy that no knowledge can be attained about him |
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| belief that the end will come with a final clash between good and evil |
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| extra books found in the Septuagint which the Protestants rejected, judging them to be "hidden" or "false" |
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not to be touched by human hands
contains decalogue/Yahweh's Law
mercy seat=presence of Yahweh |
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| belief that there is no God |
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| semitic pegan god of male fertility |
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| reference to crucifix/Golgatha-Latin |
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excepted books used as a base reference
completed document believed to contain ultimate truth which serves as the standard of belief for many people |
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| from Greek word Christos meaning messiah or the anointed one |
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semitic tradition of removing the foreskin from the male genitals eight days after birth
sign of the covenant |
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Yahweh will initiate if Abram follows Yahweh
1. Go to the land I will show you
2. A great nation
3. a blessing to Abram's families |
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study of the beginning
study of origins |
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an unconditional covenant in which the descendants of David will prevail
a different positive view of a king |
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| Day of judgment-not a happy day |
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| "ten words"-Ten Commandments |
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| belief that God created all & stepped back-doesn't intervine |
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| Jews living outside of the homeland |
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Community called out from the world by God
aka The Church |
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Letters written by Paul which offer clarifications of what Christians should believe and how they should live e.g. Acts & Hebrews
reinterpretations that gained many adherents from Greco-Roman world |
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any number of monastic religious sects who withdrew from society to live in segregated communities in the wilderness
wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls (found in Qumran) |
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| preaching of good news started by Peter |
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| the departure of the Israelites from Egypt |
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| time during Babylonian captivity in which Nebuchadnezzar brought prisoners back to his country as a punishment they lived in refugee communities |
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| Adam & Eve's fall from God's grace |
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belief that text is the inert word of God
Dictation from God to man
What is God saying to man? |
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| Garden in which Jesus is arrested |
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"devoted things"
"to the victor goes the spoils" |
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the way in which you interpret the scriptures
method of interpretation |
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belief that Bible is a religious text of historical value
from human reasoning, experience, and culture
what does the text mean in a historical context? |
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| worship of false gods and idols |
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| belief that God is near and involved in everyday happenings (nearness-Genesis II) |
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he who strives with God
10 northern tribes |
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| genuine/legitimate (satisfy Jewish dietary laws) |
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| "what is it"-food provided during the Exodus under the leadership of Moses |
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| person who dies in the name of their religion or beliefs |
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| the one anointed/chosen by God |
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belief that God is the source of everything (good and evil)
no soul only body |
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| a story or stories that order a person's world |
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| vow made by Samson to keep the kosher dietary laws and to not cut his hair (God given source of strength) |
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| additional books added to the Old Testament inspired by the life of Jesus written in two forms Gospels and Epistles |
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| sin that all humans carry because Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit (born with sin) |
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| Stories told by Jesus that have a moral |
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reliving of deliverance
protection of 1st born |
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50 days after passover and the death of Jesus the movement that he began goes public
Paul begins to preach in Asia Minor
*Gift of the Holy Spirit |
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strict or orthodox religious peoples who were determined to preserve Judaism in spite of the political climate created by Rome.
Resisted the Roman presence passively |
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people from Philistia
Sea Farers |
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| man's image projected on God |
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speaks for another
mediator of the word of Yahweh |
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| A collection of moral and philosophical stories of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic form gathered and recast by Solomon |
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| sacred collection of writings most of which (73) were written by David |
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prophet Amos-God will have a day of judgement
all nations will be held accountable |
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| left over Jews from Babylonian captivity |
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| belief that God will raise his followers up at some point after death |
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day of rest in semitic tradition
the day that God rested after creating the Earth |
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| professional class of conservative people who did not resist or resent the presence of Rome and the ways of the modern world |
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from Samaria (722 BCE)
gentiles who were taught the Israelite's religion |
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| evil entity from Zoroastrianism |
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| goat onto which everyones' sins are symbolically placed and then it is released into the wild freeing the people of their sins |
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| Solomon's kingdom split between Israel (10 Northern tribes) and Judah (Southern tribe) |
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| the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible |
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| semitic belief that there is no afterlife or consciousness |
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poems that brought comfort to Jews during Babylonian captivity
major source of inspiration for later Jews to make sense of the death of their prophet Jesus |
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| gospels from the same view point-Matthew, Mark, and Luke |
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| acronym that stands for the three sections of the Jewish Scriptures-Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Khethuvim (Writings) |
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justice of God/problem of evil
why do the innocent suffer? |
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personal experience with God
vision of God |
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| God works from on high (Distance-Genesis I) |
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between David and God
promise that God will always have descendants of David in power (kingdom of Judah) |
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people involved in a religious and secular movement that involved bringing an end to the Roman culture and military presence through violence
Pushed to war 66-70 CE which lead to defeat of the Zealots, destruction of the Temple, and end of Jewish "state" in Palestine until 1948 |
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| belief that good and evil are from separate entities |
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