Bible Test 1

• Higher power
• Worshiped a deity
• Priesthood
• and holy locations

• Monotheistic
• Revealed God
• Originally a
• locality

The spreading out of Jews throughout the world

• the original scriptures for early Christians made by 70 translators
• aka LXX

significant sites for teaching and worship, houses of prayer

• a library kept by Essenes, elaborates on the diversity of the
• jewish culture

the adoption of Greek influence

a heathen who is polytheistic or doesn’t believe in God

Non-Israelites

• The extent of the roman empire with its basic
• stability, and worldwide unity

• belief that spirits can posses people animals and other
• entities

• Belief that spirits can posses people animals and other
• entities

• Iduman/half-jew, politically minded, enlarged the
• temple, began building programs

• Middle class
• Power based outside Jerusalem
• associated with synagogue
• teachers and scholars
• maintain relationship with God via Law
• accepted most of the OT
• life after death
• believed in demons and angels

• Upper class
• Power base in Jerusalem
• Temple
• Priests
• relationship via sacrifice
• only Torah/Pentateuch
• no after life
• skepticle of paranormal
• dissapear after war with Rome

• radical anti-roman Jews
• physical force
• included sicarii- knife wielding assasigns who would kills jews

• only the pentateuch and it was revised
• Claimed true existance in Israel

• keepers of the dead sea scrolls
• not mentioned in the NT
• very ritualistic

• A worshipper of Roman Gods, who was considered another "Son of God"
• Tells us the importance of situating Jesus and the NT in the original world

• looked to the septuagint
• spoke greek
• Rabbis over priests

• tends to objectify good and evil as realities in nature
• grants more power to the devil

• Origins from Epicurus
• Free will
• Pleasure seeking, through tranquility
• Avoid things that lead to pain
• No after life

• Origins from Zeno
• Predestination it is all a cycle
• Virtue is most important throgh faith
• Focused on the logic of the universe

• Origins are Diogenes Of Sinope
• Athenticity and Independance
• Voluntary poverty
• Rhetorical conversation with themself

religous movement that regaurded the spirit as fndementally good and matter as evil

"common" became the lingua franca of the hellenistic world language and the NT

All capital greek writing earliest version

distinguished between upper and lower case letters later version

Humans->Divine Beings, demigods, heros, immortals->Daimonia, Local Gods-> The Great Ones-> The One God

Dictator who turned Rome into an Empire

Cesar's adopted son/great nephew who finished Cesar's maste plan

39

11-15, Apocrypha or Deutero-canonical

Christian name for the Jewish bible

Hebrew-> Greek

Originally meant a collection of books signifying the different authors

• from the greek word meaning to measure or ruler
• denotes a recognized authoritative collection of books

• focs on the circumstances of a text's composition
• the way a historian might use the NT

"Editing" the study of possible sites of editing

• philosophical reflection on the process of interpretation. The study of
• interpretation theories. Usually focuses more on present meaning and
• appropriation.

• explication of the text. From Greek for “interpret,” to
• exegete is to explain or analyze a text using historical-critical tools of
• understanding. Exegesis typically focuses more on past meaning.

• 27 Books
• Written in Greek
• Varios Authors

• Historical Jesus
• Early tradition
• Composition of the Gospels
• Preservation of Manuscripts
• Translation
• Reception

when people analyze the various manuscripts of the NT to judge which are the most reliable

seeks to classify different materials found in the NT according to genre

Moves to present a hypothesis regaurding possible sources for NT authors

Scholars examine the NT with tools from social science

• Focuses on the strategies used by biblical authors to achieve their purposes
• types of arguments used

• Treats each book as its own and focuses on that
• draws on insights of modern lit analysis to determine the expected effects

determine the intentions by analyzing the arrangement and edited source materials

• focus on polyvaence- capacity to mean different things to different people
• intrested in how the readers contribute to interpretation

seeks to explore how textx might be intrepreted from different perspectives

• extreme mode fairly recent
• goes on to explain that all interpretation have no real true foundation

• A first-century Jewish historian.
• He was appointed court historian by the Roman Emperor Vespasian.
• His two major works—Wars of the Jews and Antiquities of the Jews—are principal resources for much information about life in
• first-century Palestine.

• parables
• Miracle Stories
• Prononcement Stories
• Individual Sayings
• passion and resrrection Narratives

• Wisdom
• Prophetic
• eschatological
• legal
• "I" autobiographical

early christian preaching

written life of Jesus