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| 15 short books traditionally accepted by Roman Catholics as part of the Old Testament |
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| 60 additional works falsely ascribed |
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| Translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to Greek. Latin word for 70, it is believed about 70 scholars were commissioned to produce this translation. |
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| Until the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, these were the oldest copies of the Hebrew Old Testament |
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| Came to power in 175. Promoted Hellenization, even proclaimed himself as a god. Negatively altered relationships between Seleucids and Jews in Israel. |
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| Old Jewish priest who was ordered to sacrifice on one of the unlawful altars Antiochus had erected. He refused and when someone else came forward to do it he killed him and the soldiers overseeing the sacrifice. He then organized a band of rebel jews who would attack the Syrians. |
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| Mattathias' son who continued to lead the attacks against the Syrians. He successfully regained control of the temple precincts and purifying the temple in 164 BC. |
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| Dynasty starting with Mattathias and ending with Herod the Great |
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| Celebration in December to honor the regaining of the temple by Judas. |
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| "legal religion" Judaism became a legal religion under Julius, this exempted them from sacrificing to later emperors who claimed to be gods. |
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| hebrew for repetition, it was a book slightly thicker than the bible that contained the Jewish Oral laws |
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| supplements to the Mishnah that came later |
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| Additional commentary on the topics of many of the oral laws |
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| Encyclopedia of Jewish Oral laws and traditions |
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| Collection of works from 200BC-70AD |
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| Originally they were copyists of scripture, but they became experts in and teachers of the Law because of their familiarity with scripture. |
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| served as a supreme court, comprised of 71 members led by the high priest, made up of Pharisees and Sadducees |
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| Group of laymen who sought to apply the Torah to every area of life. Primary domain was the synagogue. The Pharisees came up with the oral laws |
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| small group of the well to do, mostly from priestly families. Became corrupt with their money (introducing money changers into the temple) rejected the oral law. |
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| Never mentioned in NT, More radically anti hellenization than the Pharisees. Thought the temple was corrupt. |
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| Loosely knit group who attempted to overthrow Rome by military means. |
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| Concerned with finding errors in the copying of texts by scribes. The contents of 97-99% of the Bible are certain beyond reasonable doubt, no central doctrine hangs on disputer texts. |
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| The study of finding which Gospel came first/which gospels relied on which (ie Markan Priority) |
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| Analysis of the period before the Gospels were written down. A method of biblical criticism that classifies units of scripture by literary pattern and that attempts to trace each type to its period of oral transmission. |
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| Viewed Gospel writers as editors and was concerned with why they chose to include (or leave out) what they did, how they arranged material, and what theology they emphasized. |
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| Refers to the fact that there are many parallels between the gospels that essentially proves that they gospel writers were using one another's work. |
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| Belief that Mark was written first. Strengths include how vivid Mark's details are, Mark's lack of smoothness, etc. Weaknesses include Luke's "great omission", agreements between matthew and luke, etc. |
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| Hypothetical creation that explains similarities between Luke and Matthew not found in Mark. |
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| Hypothesis and Matthew and Luke drew from "M" and "L" in addition to "Q" and Mark. |
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