NT Survey Final Flashcards
(37 cards)
What played a great part in holding the single allegiance of the Jewish people?
In no other faith did the temple with its imageless sanctuary play so great a part or hold the allegiance of so large a company of people.
How was Judaism unlike other religions of the Roman Empire?
- It was national, having originated with the Jewish people.
- It was exclusively monotheistic, in that its adherents were not allowed to worship or even admit the existence of and other god or gods.
Judaism was based on a revelation from God recounted in the sacred Scriptures of the Law and the prophets. What did it claim to be?
The reproduction of the words of God himself as he spoke to His chosen people.
Christianity is_______?
the child of Judaism
Name four points relating to the Jewishness of Jesus.
- Jesus was a Jew born of a Jewish family.
- Jesus was circumcised on the eighth day as all Jewish male infants were.
- Jesus was taken to Jerusalem as a boy that he might participate in the Passover feast.
- Throughout His life, He observed Jewish customs and moved in Jewish society.
- Assumed his Rabbi role at 30.
Judaism as it existed in the first century was largely a product of what?
It was largely the product of the exile. Prior to this they had given only spasmodic loyalty to the law.
What did Daniel and his friends avow to do?
Daniel and his friends avowed their will to worship Jehovah alone at any cost.
In the days of Jesus, who were potent figures in the religion of Judaism?
scribes. (studied and interpreted the law; made copies of the law for synagogues) became as important as Priests.
How many persons did it take to form a regular Jewish congregation and what was that congregation called?
- It took 10 Jewish men to form a regular Jewish congregaton, and it was called a synagogue. (The dispersion necessitated a form of local gathering; some people could not attend the Temple worship after it was reestablished because of cost and distance)
- It was a flourishing center of worship in the time of Christ (Not mentioned in OT)
What was the central to the whole faith of Judaism?
Its tenacious belief in the unity and transcendence of Jehovah.
State the Short Sharp Creed.
Deut 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”
Discuss Philo’s concept of God
- Phil belonged to the Hellenistic wing of Judaism which had a more philosophic conception of God.
- It believed that God was eternal, unchangeable, holy, free, and perfect.
- God is superior to all things, and therefore is not definable by comparison to anything. This would be limiting God, and God is limitless.
- This illustrates a depersonalizing of God that is still existent in modern Judaism. God becomes a shadowing being whose character and attitude no definite assertions can be made.
In what way did Christianity go beyond Judaism?
by presenting a God who was not only sole God and real, but who was also personal and knowledgeable.
What was sin for a Jew?
in a wrong relationship to the revealed law of God. The failure to obey one of its proscriptions whether weighty or light, was regarded as sin, and made you guilty of all of the law. (James 2:10)
In the period before the exile, how were rewards and punishments connected?
They were connected with the fate of the nation as a whole. If the nation observed God’s law and worshiped him alone, it prospered. If the nation lapsed into idolatry and neglect of the law, it suffered political and economic reverses.
When and how was the original temple of Solomon destroyed?
The original temple of Solomon was destroyed in 586 B.C. when it was sacked and burned by the troops of Nebuchadnezzar.
Why was the most holy place in the temple empty?
because the Ark of the Covenant had been lost when the temple of Solomon was destroyed.
The temple was ______of _______in _________.
main center of worship in Jerusalem.
Discuss the synagogue’s purpose.
- social center were Jewish inhabitants gathered weekly to meet.
- it was the educational medium for keeping the law before the people and providing instruction for their children in the ancestral faith.
- It was a substitute for temple worship, which was precluded by distance or poverty.
- the study of the law there took the place of ritual sacrifice; the rabbi supplanted the priest; communal faith was applied to individual life
What was the most important of all feasts.
Passover. historically and religiously it marked the anniversary of the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt and their establishment as an in independent people by redemptive act of God. (Egyptian passover blood sprinkled over doorpost lamb eaten in haste 10th of Nissan); The permanent passover 7 days with the use of unleavened bread) Both one festal season.
What festival could be more properly called a fast? What New Testament book applies much of its symbolism to Christ?
The Day of Atonement was more properly a fast than a feast, and is so called in the New Testament. Much of the symbolism of the Day of atonement is applied to Christ by the book of Hebrews. (Many functions of the priesthood are described in terms of the ritual of the Old Testament.
The _______corresponds almost exactly in time to the Christian Christmas.
The Feast of Lights. (Judas Maccabeus, Antiochus Epihanes cleansing of temple and rededication to service of God) 25th of Kislev (December) Stories of the Maccabeus repeated for benefit of the Children. 8 days of observance. Houses ablaze in honor of the day. Hanukkah
Jewish education was narrow but________________.
Jews favored _______________.
Enthusiasm for education was a marked ______________.
precise.
vocational education.
characteristic of Jewish life.
Define Apocrypha.
the word Apocrypha is means hidden, recondite, or secret as applied to matter that are not to be disclosed to common people, but are to be revealed only the initiated few; as time went on the name was applied to works which have a biblical or religious flavor, but which were not generally accepted as authoritative. “of dubious authenticity or authorship.
