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New Testament Text
Chapter 1
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Bible Studies
Undergraduate 1
08/26/2010

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What opponents were responsible for the demise of Isreal?
Definition
Assyrians & Babylonians
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Diaspora
Definition
Scattering
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What defined a Jew?
Definition
The Law
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Cyrus II
Definition
Persian king who overtook Babylon and the king (Belshazzar) in 539 B.C.
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Alexander
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Greek, defeated the Persian King Darius III  started greek influence
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Hellenization
Definition
embracing of the greek culture and language
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Septuagint (LXX)
Definition
Greek translation of the Old Testament
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Ptolemies
Definition
Governed Palestine until 198 B.C., supportive of religious freedom and financial prosperity
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Seleucid Antiochus IV
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Took over the rest of Palestine, and eradicated the Jewish religion
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Matthias
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Priest who refused to sacrfice unclean things (pigs) and murdered a governmental offical and a Jewsih man who complied to the officers command
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Judas Maccabeus
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Son of Matthias continued the Maccabean ( hammer) Revolt

 

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Maccabean Revolt
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The Hasmonean era
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December 14, 164 B.C
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Hanukkah, the days of the miraculous candelabra burning
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Simon
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Son of Matthias, Gained independence for the Jewish people
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Mount Gerizim
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were a Samarian Temple was destoryed by John  Hyrcanus son of Simon
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Samaritans
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Jews who intermarried with Gentiles after exile, only accepted the Torah ( 1st five books of the Bible)
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Pharisees
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disciples of Hillel and followers of Shammai
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Gamaliel I
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son of Hillel, was a leader of the pharisees  25-40 A.D. and teacher to Paul
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Mishnah
Definition
Book of laws, insight to religious practices during Jesus time
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Sadducees
Definition
Hevaily influnced by Greco-Roman thoughts and practices concerned with wealth and power
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Essenes
Definition
Jewish sect lived in the desert, to purify themselves for the coming of the Lord, anti-temple and legalistic
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Qumran
Definition
Jewish community on the N. side of the Dead Sea. keepers of the dead scrolls 60 A.D. , found in 1947
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Zealots
Definition
Jewsih fanatics did anything to advance the cause of God.
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Apocrypha
Definition
unveiling, writings entials the future vindication of the righteous
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Pseudepigrapha
Definition
False name, pay attention to the future events
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Hasmonean Hyrcanus II
Definition
high priest, weak leader
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Antipater II
Definition
Judean official, Idumean ( partially Edomite descent) supported Hyrcanus to promote his son
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Herod
Definition
Son of Antipater, governor of Galilee. "King of the Jews"
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Herod's sons, and what land did they obtain?
Definition

Archaelaus( Judea and Samaria) Antipas ( Galilee & Peraea)

Philip ( N & NE of the Sea of Galilee)

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Roman Governor's, who managed Judea
Definition
Pontius Pilate, Felix, and Festus
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Herod Agrippa I
Definition
Herodian ruler, inherited philips lands after death, close ties with roman emperor Caligula, and advocate of Judaism and persecutor of the early church
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Agrippa II
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son of Agrippa I, and interviewed Paul during imprisonment
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Roman Philosophies
Definition
Stoicism and Epicurianism
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" Centuries of Silence"
Definition
Time after the prophet Malachi, 400 years were Isreal lose connetion with God over there greek sin until Christ
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