Chapter 3 Flashcards
Jews were the most sought after exorcists, largely because they alone could correctly pronounce the magical potent name_____
Yahweh
The suppression of bodily passions because of their connection with evil matter is known as _______
Syncretism
The indulgence of bodily passions because of the transience and consequent unimportance of matter is known as ________ or ________
Libertinism
Sensualism
Gnosticism comes from gnosis, the Greek word for _______
Knowledge
_________ taught dutiful acceptance of one’s fate as determined by an impersonal reason that rules the universe
Stoicism
_________ regarded the supreme virtue as a simple, unconventional life in rejection of the popular pursuits of comfort
Cyricism
The “Golden Text” of Judaism was the ______
Shema
A loose oral translation into Aramaic, which many Jews understood better than Hebrew was a _____
Targum
A great expense, _______ ____ ________ had a temple beautified even beyond the glory of the first temple
Herod the Great
The temple stood Ina court that covered about _____ acres of ground
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Inside the first room stood three pieces of furniture; the _____,_______,_______
Menorah
Table of bread
Alter of incense
Although it had disappeared long ago, the __________ was the only piece of furniture allowed in the holiest of holies
Ark of the covenant
The high priest entered the holy of holies one day a year; the day of ______
Atonement
The Jewish year began in ______
September
The Jewish religious year began in______
March
The ________ books of the Old Testament contain mainly history, fiction, and wisdom
Apocryphal
Thus ______ means “hidden secret”
Apocrypha
The ____ ______ _____ were approximately eight hundred scrolls discovered in caves near the ruins of _______
Dead Sea scrolls
Qumran
The Talmud consists of the ______ or oral law
Mishnah
Jewish beliefs sprang from the _________________, not paganism from mythology, mysticism, or philosophic speculation.
Acts of God in history recorded in sacred book
The ________ means “separated one’s”
Pharisees
Though fewer than the Pharisees, the ________ wielded more political influence because they controlled the priesthood
Sadducees
________ may have originally meant “members of the supreme council
“.
Sadducees
A small sect of four thousand, some of the _______ lived in monastic communities
Essenes
The ________ did not offer animal sacrifices in the temple in the temple at Jerusalem, because they regarded it as a polluted by a corrupt priest hood
Essenes
The ________ seem to have been a small minority of influential Jews who supported the Herodian dynasty
Herodians
Revolutionaries dedicated to over throw the Roman power, and refuse to pay taxes to Rome were known as ______
Zealots
The Jewish Supreme Court was known as the great _______
Sanhedrin
The _______ retained their judaistic faith and their Jewish language and customs and incurred Gentile hatred for their Hellenists who adopted the Greek language and customs
Hebraists
Gentiles who became converts to Judaism were called ____
Proselytes
Atop the Greek pantheon or hierarchy of gods sat ______
Zeus
