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Term
Romans
Definition

author: paul

date: winter 57/58

provenance: corinth

Main theme: the universal gospel

main verse:rom.1:16-17 (for i am not ashamed fo the gospel of christ.)

Term
Philippians
Definition

Date: ca. 60-62 

author: paul

Destination: philippi

provenance: rome

Theme: unity, humility, joy in suffering

Term
Philemon (turkey)
Definition

Date: 60-62

author: paul

destination: colossae

provenance: rome

theme; christian relationships

purpose: to reinstate onesimus, the runaway slave of philemon

Term
Colossians
Definition

Date: 60-62(?)

Author; paul (disputed)

Destination: colossae

Provenance: Rome(?)

Theme: supremacy of christ

Puropse: discipleship

main feature: sharp contrast between the "old life" and the "new life"

Term
Ephesians
Definition

Date:60-62(?)

Author: paul(?)

holds 25% of the text in common with colossians

Destination: "in ephesus" is missing the from most manuscripts

provenance: rome(?)

theme: the centrality of christ

Purpose: to remind the christians of who they are and what church is.

Term
1 timothy, 2 timothy, and titus
Definition

Date: 64-65(?)

Author: Paul(?)

Destination: 1,2 tim-> ephesus

titus->crete

theme:advice to missionaries with pastoral duties

Purpose: warning against false teachings

Term
What two books share 25% of the same material?
Definition
Ephesians, colossians
Term

in what book is the kenosis hymn?

 

Definition
phil 2:5-11
Term
Hebrews 1
Definition

author: not named

Date: before 70 ad

destination; a specific group of christians ( with a jewish majority?)

Term
Hebrews 2
Definition

Genre: Epistolary? sermon?

provenance:?

puropse: evangelistic; exhortation to (jewish) christians

theme unqualifeid supremacy of christ and hence living in trust and gratitude to god

Key verse: Heb 1:1-2

Term
James
Definition

Date: ca. 60, possibly 40's

author: james

theme: wisdom and the thics of true faith

sources: teaching of jesus, stoic themes

destination: 12 tribes of the diaspora

provenance: jerusalem(?)

Term
1 peter
Definition

Date: c.e. 62-65, c.e. 70-96

author: peter? peter associates?

destination: residents of the diaspora

provenance: rome

purpose: encouraging faith in the face of persecution

theme: life as aliens in a hostile society

has a suffering

Term
2 Peter
Definition

author: peter, an associate

date: if petrine-> c.e. 64-68, if not petrine-> c.e. 60's-150

sources: jude

destination: rome

theme: maintaining hope concerning the second coming

purpose: to combat fasle teachings

 

Term

Jude

 

Definition

Author: jude, brother of jesus

date: 50s c.e.

80-90 c.e.

destination: jewish christians in palestine

purpose: warining agaist false teachings

theme: the faithful will overcome the false teachers

Term
Revelation
Definition

Date: a.d. 96

author: john

provenance: patmos

destination: 7 churches in asia minor

theme: covercoming by the blood of the lamb

purpose: to strengthen the community of believers

Term
7 churches of asia
Definition
  1. ephesus
  2. smyrna
  3. pergamum
  4. thyatira
  5. sardis
  6. philadelphia
  7. laodicea
Term
two understandings of sin
Definition

sin as a power in human experance in which no one can escape

 

sin as something for which the individual can be changed.

Term
Shalom
Definition
hebrew for peace it means a since of  wholeness
Term
Who is "I"
Definition

paul, the present christian.

 

paul envisioning the prdicament of his past condition as Pharisee in hindsight

Term
prosopopoiia
Definition
to take on the personalization perspective to teach. teaching from your past experances
Term
kenosis hymn
Definition

kenosis- emptied himself

 

encourged the people of philippi to be one minded

 

to humble your self

Term
kenotic response
Definition
what are you going to do now, are you going to humble your self?
Term

broken down wall

Eph.2:11-22

Definition
the wall between the jews and gentiles live life together
Term
concept of aliens 1 peter
Definition
the jews and gentiles feel like they are different from the outside world, they have to be different if they want to witness to others.
Term

Hebrew 6:4

 

 

Definition

telling people to move on with there maturity with God. to keep grow and to not fall of from the christian life style.

 

 

 

 

Term
ephesians (mystery)
Definition
paul works of the colts, knowing the people like to hear about mysteries. he uses the word mystery so that they can understand him, and know how to follow God.
Term
Male and female realationships
Definition

patriarchal- God - men - women

 

egalitarianism- God- men and women

Term
27 books of the new testament
Definition

matthew

mark

luke

john

acts

romans

1 corthians

2 corthians

Galatians

ephaniens

philippians

colossians

1 thessalonians

2 thessalonians

1 timothy

2 timothy

titus

philemon

hebrew

james

1 peter

2 peter

1 john

2 john

3 john

jude

revalation

Term
the torah
Definition
the jewish set of books of teachings
Term
when was the edict of Claudius was issued
Definition
49 c.e
Term
when was the fire of Rome
Definition
64 c.e
Term
when was the second temple in jerusalem destroyed
Definition
70 c.e.
Term
difference between the old and the new covenant?
Definition

old- traditional ways, had to follow certain rules in your culture you had to follow.

 

new- break all of the old ways, no more traditional ways, all depended on God and faith

Term
old testament
Definition
old covenant that had rules and reagultions for there culture.
Term
Prescriptive or Descriptive?
Definition

Prescriptive - strict, interpreting the text without knowledge of the it's time period and context of which it was written

Descriptive - Reading of the text with with knowledge of the circumstance of which it was written and it's time period

Term
False teachings
Definition

Hymenaus and Philetus

"Spread like cancer"

Teaching of Demon

Deceitful spirits

Forbidding Marriage

Abstenance from food

Hipocrasy of liars

 

Good: Acestism

Term

Christological HYMN

 

Definition
Col 1:15-20
Term
1st timothy disputed authorship
Definition

If Paul did write it, then it was right before his execution.

 

Unusual vocabulary

Does not fit Pauline journeys (mission to Crete?)
Church order

Argumentative strategy/style
Theology
Term
Timothy 2:8-15
Definition

oon "Therefor"

english proclaiming news to everyone after the good news of christ.

Instructions for men and women like men with argument or anger issues, women being prestentable men not cheating on their wives.

Term
Following Jesus Outside the Camp
Definition
Outside the walls things were considered to be unclean, and Jesus was also crucified outside the walls
Term
Jesus relation to James
Definition

Teaching wisdom to (Diaspora) small Jewish communities outside of Israel

 

Term
James and Paul differences
Definition
James and Paul both emphasize grace but James believes if you already have faith then you already are doing good works.  Paul makes more emphases on grace not on works.
Term
Wisdom in James
Definition

Those without wisdom still recieves God's gifts without reproach through prayer.

Moral Exhortation about 59 imperatives in its 108 verses

James represent the wisdom tradition of Torah

A kind of wisdom literature.

Term
alternate identity of the royal pristhood in 1 Peter
Definition
your spiritual sacrfice, not pagan sacrfice
Term
Living and suffering in the household
Definition
how wifes and husbands treat one another
Term
the delay of parousia
Definition
the delay of the coming of jesus, and how they want them to wait and it will come.
Term
overlap of 2 peter and jude
Definition
either 2 peter was a source jude or jude was a source of 2 peter but they almost go together.
Term
victorious warrior
Definition
that jesus is the king of kings and the lord or lords, he is above everyone else
Term
Faith and Doubting James
Definition
If you doubt you have no faith, but if you don't doubt then you do have faith.  If you doubt you can still be accepted by Jesus.
Term
purity of Revelation
Definition
he gave his life so that we could be pure, the consequences of that are ongoing
Term
1st Peter
Definition
contained suffering
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