Exam 3 RELIGION Flashcards
(77 cards)
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How was the peace during the Ptolemic Rule (300-200 BCE)
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Relative peace
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What happened during Antiochus Epiphanes’s Rule (167 BCE)
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Campaign of forced Hellenization
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What happened during the Campaign of forced Hellenization
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- Forbid Torah practice, Sabbath observance, circumcision, and dietary practices
- Destroyed Jewish scriptures
- Forbid sacrifices and offerings to Yahweh
- Mandating offerings and sacrifices to Greek deities
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What does Hanukkah celebrate?
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Rededication of the Temple after the Maccabean revolt that overthrew the rule of Antiochus Epiphanes
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Who was Herod the Great?
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Client king of Rome during when Jesus was born
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Who was the prefect (governor) of Judea during Jesus’s time?
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Pontius Pilate
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Who was the high priest in Jerusalem during Jesus’ time?
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Joseph Calaphas
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What were the common beliefs during Jesus’ time?
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- monotheism
- temple
- divine election
- centrality of Torah
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Defining characteristics of Pharisees
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- non-preistly people but looked to priests for how to act
- purity concerns for daily life, written and oral traditions
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Defining characteristics of Sadducees
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- wealthy aristocrats connected with the temple (high priest)
- roman corraborators
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Defining characteristics of Essenes
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- moved away and became the community of the new covenant
- sectarian group with purity concerns and community discipline
- connected to dead sea scolls
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Defining characteristics of Zealots
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- revolutionary group against Roman rule
- First Jewish revolt
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Defining characteristics of Samaritans
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- not included by other Jews
- Israelite descendants from Mt. Gerazim with their own version of the Torah
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Pharisees and purity
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privatized purity by extending dietary regulations to the home
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Zealots and purity
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politicized purity by engaging in armed conflict with the Roman “outsiders”
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Sadducees and purity
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institutionalized purity in the architectural space of the Temple
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Essenes and purity
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isolated purity by creating an alternative community
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What is “the Way”?
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Early Christianity represented another group within Judaism
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“the Way” and purity
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- internalized purity by making holiness a matter of the heart
- replaced purity with compassion/mercy/justice
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The gospels are ___ of Jesus not photographs and tells both ___ and ____
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- portraits
- history and theology
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The Gospels are ancient texts written according
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to the practices and assumptions of antiquity
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The Gospels are ___ _____, expressing Evagenlists’ particular beliefs about
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- ancient biographies
- the theological significance of Jesus
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Modern biographies
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- degree of objectivity
- intended to inform the general audience
- provide psychological development of subject
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Ancient biographies
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- faith perspective
- intended to teach followers (imitation)
- capture the essence of the subject
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The canonical Gospels are the primary sources by which historians
reconstruct the so-called "historical Jesus"
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The Gospels are ___ written 35-70 years after the death of Jesus
anonymous texts
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The Gospels are based on ____ and some written sources that are earlier
oral traditions
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___,___,___ have such striking similarities that some literary relationship must exist between these documents
Matthew, Mark, and Luke
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Matthew, Mark, and Luke are
Synoptic gospels
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Synoptic problem
the challenge to explain the relationship of the synoptic gospels
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Two-Source theory
Markan priority with Q
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Griesbach Theory
Matthean priority
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Farrer Theory
Markan priority without Q
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Mark has division according to the
- Title
- Geography
- Gospel in parable
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Mark Title Division
Jesus Christ and the Son of God
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Mark Geographical Division
Galilee and Jerusalem
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Mark the Gospel in the Parable division
"Sower" of the Kingdom of God and the suffering Messiah/Son of God
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Structure of Mar's Gospel
Dramatic, opening prologue
Ministry in & around Galilee
Interpretive Center
Ministry on the way & in Jerusalem
Dramatic, Open-ended Conclusion
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Mark's dramatic, opening prologue
- provides privileged information like prologue of Greek dramas
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Mark opens with
Jesus's baptism. NO birth story
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Mark's ministry in and around Galilee
-powerful in both word & deed
-growing popularity with the crowds
-growing hostility with the religious leaders
-growing stupidity of the disciples
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What is the Messianic Secret in Mark?
The practice of Jesus silencing the confessions by demons, those healed, and the disciples
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Why the Messianic Secret?
1. Mark's apologetic purpose to explain why Jesus was not believed to be the Messiah
2. Political purpose of avoiding popular notions
3. Literary motif for the theological purpose of deflecting emphasis from miracles to suffering
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Narrative inclusio
two blind healings
1. 2 tries
2. blind Bartimaeus
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T/F: "two tries" healing only happens in Mark's gospel
True
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Mark's Interpretive Center structure
1. passion predictions
2. Disciple's misunderstandings
3. teaching about the true nature of discipleship
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Significance of Mark's Interpretive Center structure
1. "way of the Lord" becomes defined in terms of suffering
2. Bartimaeus as true disciple
3. "Open" discussion of suffering vs. sonship
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Ministry on the way to and in Jerusalem in Mark
Jesus openness about his messiahship
1. Triumphal entry
2. Prophetic "cursing" of the Temple
3. Anointing of Bethany (suffering + messiahship)
4. direct "I am" to are you the messiah question
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What is Intercalation
literary devise of one story inserted into another so that the 2 stories are interpreted in light of one another
ex. Cursing of the fig tree + Temple
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Which Gospel has a young man in a white robe?
Mark
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Which Gospel gives reasoning for John baptizing Jesus?
Matthew
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Structure of John
Cosmic Beginning
Book of Signs
Book of Glory
Epilogue
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Cosmic beginning
John and the pre existent agent of creation and how Jesus is the flesh of the pre existent Word
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Book of Signs
7 miracles or signs
Jesus doesn't speak in parables but rather He is the parables in themselves (I am the bread of life/light of the world/etc)
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Book of Glory
foot washing/farewell/cross resurrection
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Sayings on the Cross (John)
Here is your mother
I am thirsty
It is finished
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Jesus appears to Thomas
only in John
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Structure of Luke's Gospel
Formal preface
Scriptural beginning
Prep for public ministry
Ministry in Galilee
Journey to Jerusalem
Death and Resurrection
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Infancy narrative (Luke)
Focuses on Mary, stable and manger, angels and shepherds, joyful beginning
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Infancy narrative (Matt)
Focuses on Joseph, star and magi, ominous beginning
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Mary sister of Martha and Zacchaeus
only in Luke
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Sayings of the Cross (Luke)
Father forgive them
Join me in paradise
I commend my spirit
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Matthew structure
Sermon on the mount
Missionary discourse
Teaching in parables
Community instructions
Apocalyptic discourse
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T/F Matthew's 5 books correspond to the 5 books of Moses
true
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3x14 structure
14 generations between each deportation
14 names in the genealogy
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Women in whom's gospel genealogy?
Matthew
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Boy Jesus in the temple
only in Luke
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Mountains of Matthew
Messiah:
Obedient
Teaching
Praying
Healing
Glorified
Eschatological
Universal
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The earth shook and rocks split
Only in Matthew
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Matthew's apologetic purpose for guards at tomb
To prove Jesus' body was risen
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Christians
They were considered Jews for following Jesus
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Rabbinic Judaism
Morphed Pharisees, predecessors of modern judaism, they have Rabbi Teachers, Developed new texts from judaism from oral traditions.
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Is the Jesus Movement a Jewish movement?
Yes
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Sources for reconstructing the "Historical Jesus"
The canonical Gospels and possibly the Gospel of Thomas
-attempt to discern what is from the Evangelists and what goes back to Jesus
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"Assured Results" of the "Historical Jesus"
1. Galilean Jew of the early 1st century
2. Baptized by John the Baptist
3. Mission and ministry centered on the Kingdom of God (teachings, miracles, associations)
4. Messianic entry into Jerusalem for Passover and disturbance in the Temple
5. Arrested by Caiaphas (Jewish High Priest) who recommended execution to Pilate (Roman Governor)
6. Pilate ordered the execution of Jesus
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Theological and Literary design
Alternative to studying sources and traditions of the Gospels
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Characteristics of reading for theological and literary design
-read as creative, intentionally shaped narratives
-Stories present Jesus in light of theological and library concerns of Evangelists
