Lesson 1: Political, Socioeconomics & Religious Background of New Testament Palestine

Question 1

What do you call the period in between the Old Testament and the New Testament?

Answer 1

The Silent Years or The Intertestamental Period

Question 2

How long was the Intertestamental Period?

Answer 2

400 years

Question 3

What do you call another name for the Intertestamental period?

Answer 3

The Silent Years

Question 4

What were the two perspectives about the coming Messiah?

Answer 4

• He will come from the line of David
• God the Father will come

Question 5

What do you call the Jewish festival that celebrated the cleansing of the Temple?

Answer 5

Hanukkah

Question 6

What do you call the religious sect during the Hellinistic Period that were composed of “elite” priests?

Answer 6

Sadducees

Question 7

What do you call the religious sect that arose in the Hellinistic Period that were composed of priests that had a strict interpretation of the Jewish law?

Answer 7

Pharisees

Question 8

What do you call the people in this religious sect wherein they detach themselves from the greater civilization in order to study the law?

Answer 8

Essenes

Question 9

What do you call the authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture?

Answer 9

Canon

Question 10

What do you call the process in which the books of the Bible were discovered to be authoritative?

Answer 10

Canonization

Question 11

What were three things that were prominent during the New Testament?

Answer 11

Greek Culture
Hebrew Religion
Roman Occupation

Question 12

What was the order of empires that preceded after the end of the Old Testament?

Answer 12

Persian
Macedonian
Egyptian
Syrian
Maccabean
Roman

Question 13

What do you call the small temples that Jews were to go if they are far from the temple?

Answer 13

Synagogues

Question 14

Who was the one that was appointed as the “King of the Jews” by the Roman Emperor?

Answer 14

Herod

Question 15

Who were the ones that forced the Jews to receive the Greek Gods but were later ousted of power by the Maccabean revolt?

Answer 15

Syrians

Question 16

Who was the leader of the Maccabean revolt?

Answer 16

Judas Maccabees

Question 17

What are the four Gospels?

Answer 17

Matthew
Mark
Luke
John

Question 18

Who was the gospel of Matthew intended for?

Answer 18

Hebrews

Question 19

Who was the Gospel of Luke intended for?

Answer 19

Greeks

Question 20

Who was the Gospel of Mark intended for?

Answer 20

Romans

Question 21

Who was the Gospel of John intended for?

Answer 21

For the majority

Question 22

What does the book of Acts tell of?

Answer 22

Life and the spread of the early church

Question 23

Who was the general that united the east and west politically, opened the way for the spread of Greek Culture and built 70 new cities under the greek model?

Answer 23

Alexander the Great

Question 24

Who was the one who punished those attempted of resistance when he attacked Jerusalem and erected a statue of Zeus in the Temple?

Answer 24

Epiphanes

Question 25

What prompted the Maccabean Revolt?

Answer 25

The slaughter of a thousand jews who hid in the caves

Question 26

It is the celebration of the purification of the new temple

Answer 26

Hanukkah

Question 27

Who was the first Roman Emperor

Answer 27

Octavian or Caesar Augustus

Question 28

The program under Augustus in which established a new era of peace and stability by securing borders and building roads.

Answer 28

pax Romana

Question 29

Which Roman Emperor was Jesus born into?

Answer 29

Octavian or Caesar Augsustus

Question 30

Which emperor oversaw Jesus’ life, death, ministry and the early christian movement.

Answer 30

Tiberius

Question 31

Which emperor saw the spreading of the gospel?

Answer 31

Gaius Caligula

Question 32

He was the one who expelled Jews from Rome

Answer 32

Claudius

Question 33

He was the one who blamed the Christians during the fire

Answer 33

Nero

Question 34

He was the one who started building the colloseum

Answer 34

Vespasian

Question 35

The emperor of Rome that made the persecution come to its height.

Answer 35

Dormitian

Question 36

What do you call the collection of writings that were not necessarily written with the intention of becoming sacred?

Answer 36

The New Testament

Question 37

How many letters did Apostle Paul wrote?

Answer 37

14 Letters

Question 38

Another name for the New Testament

Answer 38

The New Covenant

Question 39

The latin phrase in which the term “the new testament” was based on

Answer 39

Novum Testamentum

Question 40

The Four Major Categories of the New Testament

Answer 40

The Gospels The Historical Writings The Epistles The Apocalyptic Writings

Question 41

How will the New Testament come to its conclusion?

Answer 41

The start of God’s eternal reign

Question 42

How did the Galileans live?

Answer 42

Rural

Question 43

How did Judeans live

Answer 43

Urban

Question 44

What languages were used during the time of New Testament Palestine?

Answer 44

Hebrew Aramaic Greek Latin

Question 45

Who includes the Upper Class?

Answer 45

The Ruler Class The Governing Class The Retainer Class The Merchant Class The Priestly Class

Question 46

Who is part of the lower class?

Answer 46

The peasant class The artisan class The unclean class The degraded class The expendable class

Question 47

contractual relation

Answer 47

Patron-Client relations

Question 48

What does the Patron do in a Patron-Client relation?

Answer 48

provide support and protection

Question 49

What does the Client do in a Patron-Client relation?

Answer 49

loyalty, service and political support

Question 50

What is the main goal of a Peasant?

Answer 50

to survive

Question 51

Wht kind of society does Jesus live in?

Answer 51

Agrarian Society Limited-good Society Slave Society

Question 52

The two core values during Jesus’ Time

Answer 52

Honor and Shame

Question 53

What do you call the term for a patriarchal family system?

Answer 53

Pater Familias

Question 54

What do you call the bandit-like groups that rose from the ranks of the peasants, who robbed the rich and gave to the poor?

Answer 54

Brigands (Social Bandits)

Question 55

These are figures that were influenced by apocalyptic thought.

Answer 55

Popular Prophets

Question 56

Hebrew term meaning “the annointed one”

Answer 56

The Messiah

Question 57

These are groups of nonviolent, activist individuals.

Answer 57

Fourth Philosophy

Question 58

They were urban-based guerrilla terrorists known for their assassinations

Answer 58

Sicarii

Question 59

These are revolutionary groups known for their zeal and their goal of disposing the aristocracy.

Answer 59

Zealots

Question 60

It is a revelatory narrative that sends a message from the supernatural world by means of a mediator

Answer 60

Apocalypse

Question 61

Two topics in apocalypses

Answer 61

- God condemns the evil - Info about new world that will replace the old one

Question 62

What do you call the place that was central to the religious life of the people and are places of communion, reconciliation with God through Sacrifices

Answer 62

The Temple

Question 63

Main function of the temple

Answer 63

The upkeep of daily sacrifices

Question 64

Who is the head of the priestly rights in the temple?

Answer 64

The High Priest

Question 65

The most important role of the high priests

Answer 65

Officiate the Atonement

Question 66

A feast celebrated at the time of the great harvest that came to symbolize the story of the wilderness wanderings.

Answer 66

Booths

Question 67

The feast that commemorated the event wherein the angel of death passed-over their houses.

Answer 67

Passover

Question 68

The other feast that came to be later associated with the Passover

Answer 68

The Feast of the Unleavened Bread

Question 69

Originally a celebration of the fertility of the land, is now associated with the ten commandments. In the NT it was associated with the Pentecost

Answer 69

Weeks

Question 70

This celebrates the King’s ascent to the Throne

Answer 70

Rosh Hashanah

Question 71

what do you call the only prescribed fast in the Hebrew Scriptures

Answer 71

The Day of Atonement

Question 72

The day of rest, that commemorated when God rested after creating the world.

Answer 72

Sabbath

Question 73

The place for assembly and worship

Answer 73

Synagogue

Question 74

Other name for Jerusalem

Answer 74

Zion