Challenge of the Jesus Movement

Question 1

A Roman historian and military leader who wrote works about the Jewish revolt.

Answer 1

Flavius Josephus

Question 2

Pilate’s incitement of the Jews

Answer 2

Pilate offended the Jews by moving imperials standards with the image of Julius Caesar into Jerusalem; in other words, he promoted Roman religion and worship over theirs.

Question 3

Vespasian’s desctruction of Second Temple

Answer 3

The Secong Temple was destroyed by Titus to prompt the Jews to fight. Also referred to as the ‘darkest hour’ in Jewish history after the Babylonian exile.

Question 4

Challenge of the Pontiffs

Answer 4

A body or group consisted of the king and his advisors who oversaw the state’s religion.

Question 5

Religions of Salvation

Answer 5

Mainly Christianity, any religion that prompted people to stray away from worshiping the emperor.

Question 6

Pharisees

Answer 6

Claimed to be the “most accurate interpreters of the law”, an ancient Jewish sect that appear in the New Testament.

Question 7

Essenes

Answer 7

Fringe spiritual communities that prompted more open, inclusive, and ethical approaches to that tradition (Judaism)

Question 8

Nazarene Sect

Answer 8

An early Jewish Christian sect that Paul was the leader of, its members honor God and follow the teachings of the Gospels.

Question 9

Synoptic Gospels

Answer 9

• Gospel of Mark (90 CE)
• Gospel of Matthew (110 CE)
• Gospel of Luke (85 CE)
  –> They are a combination of evangelism and biography texts that shaped the disputes within Judaism during the 1-2nd centuries.

Question 10

Authority of Jesus over Jewish laws

Answer 10

The Jewish question over Jesus’ laws. The escalation of the moral expectations of the tradition.

Question 11

Sermon on the Mount

Answer 11

A sermon that Jesus delivered that had the purpose of revealing his supreme authority over all other teachers.

Question 12

Ethical reinterpretation of the laws

Answer 12

The interpretation of morals and societal expectations for the tradition.

Question 13

Social impact of teachings

Answer 13

The polemics of the Gospels, ethics and morals of the tradition taken to another level.

Question 14

“Consider the lilies…”

Answer 14

This means that God encourges everyone to trust in his providence; that he sees even the smallest things and trusting that one is under his care.

Question 15

Destroying the temple of stone

Answer 15

Jesus’ prediction about the desctruction of the temple.

Question 16

“Father who is in secret”

Answer 16

This means that you don’t have to let anyone know of the things or deeds hat you do that are directed towards fulfilling/carrying on your faith. Everything must be only for God to see; one shouldn’t do things for show.