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| The main city of the region during New Testament times. |
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| A word that means "looking at together. |
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| Cover a variety of landscapes, from shifting sand dunes to rocky cliffs to a hardened mixture of sand and pebbles. |
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| An Aramaic word which was a loving way of saying "father". |
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| "Seaway" a major trading route for caravans of merchants which passed close to Nazareth. |
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| Descendants of Jews who centuries before had intermarried with pagans. For that reason they were looked down upon by the other Jews of Jesus' time. |
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| Long pieces of material sewn up the sides with openings for the head and arms. |
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| A salty and lifeless body of water, the lowest point on the surface of the earth. |
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| A scribe who was the teacher in a synagogue school. |
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| The common language for business and government through out the entire area of the Near East, including Israel, Syria and Mesopotamia. |
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| The entire New Testament was written in. |
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| At the time of Jesus, this was the official language of the Roman Empire. |
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| Jewish boys completed their studies at the synagogue school at the age of. |
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| At the time of Christ, Israel was part of the ______________Empire. |
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| The house face _____________and opened away from the heat of the sun. |
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| In the desert region of Judea, John the Baptist lived and preached. |
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| Although the Roman language was Latin, the Romans themselves preferred Greek because they liked to imitate the Greek culture. |
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