Chapter 3

Question 1

Jews were the most sought after exorcists, largely because they alone could correctly pronounce the magical potent name_____

Answer 1

Yahweh

Question 2

The suppression of bodily passions because of their connection with evil matter is known as _______

Answer 2

Syncretism

Question 3

The indulgence of bodily passions because of the transience and consequent unimportance of matter is known as ________ or ________

Answer 3

Libertinism

Sensualism

Question 4

Gnosticism comes from gnosis, the Greek word for _______

Answer 4

Knowledge

Question 5

_________ taught dutiful acceptance of one’s fate as determined by an impersonal reason that rules the universe

Answer 5

Stoicism

Question 6

_________ regarded the supreme virtue as a simple, unconventional life in rejection of the popular pursuits of comfort

Answer 6

Cyricism

Question 7

The “Golden Text” of Judaism was the ______

Answer 7

Shema

Question 8

A loose oral translation into Aramaic, which many Jews understood better than Hebrew was a _____

Answer 8

Targum

Question 9

A great expense, _______ ____ ________ had a temple beautified even beyond the glory of the first temple

Answer 9

Herod the Great

Question 10

The temple stood Ina court that covered about _____ acres of ground

Answer 10

26

Question 11

Inside the first room stood three pieces of furniture; the _____,_______,_______

Answer 11

Menorah
Table of bread
Alter of incense

Question 12

Although it had disappeared long ago, the __________ was the only piece of furniture allowed in the holiest of holies

Answer 12

Ark of the covenant

Question 13

The high priest entered the holy of holies one day a year; the day of ______

Answer 13

Atonement

Question 14

The Jewish year began in ______

Answer 14

September

Question 15

The Jewish religious year began in______

Answer 15

March

Question 16

The ________ books of the Old Testament contain mainly history, fiction, and wisdom

Answer 16

Apocryphal

Question 17

Thus ______ means “hidden secret”

Answer 17

Apocrypha

Question 18

The ____ ______ _____ were approximately eight hundred scrolls discovered in caves near the ruins of _______

Answer 18

Dead Sea scrolls

Qumran

Question 19

The Talmud consists of the ______ or oral law

Answer 19

Mishnah

Question 20

Jewish beliefs sprang from the _________________, not paganism from mythology, mysticism, or philosophic speculation.

Answer 20

Acts of God in history recorded in sacred book

Question 21

The ________ means “separated one’s”

Answer 21

Pharisees

Question 22

Though fewer than the Pharisees, the ________ wielded more political influence because they controlled the priesthood

Answer 22

Sadducees

Question 23

________ may have originally meant “members of the supreme council
“.

Answer 23

Sadducees

Question 24

A small sect of four thousand, some of the _______ lived in monastic communities

Answer 24

Essenes

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Essenes

Question 26

The ________ seem to have been a small minority of influential Jews who supported the Herodian dynasty

Answer 26

Herodians

Question 27

Revolutionaries dedicated to over throw the Roman power, and refuse to pay taxes to Rome were known as ______

Answer 27

Zealots

Question 28

The Jewish Supreme Court was known as the great _______

Answer 28

Sanhedrin

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Hebraists

Question 30

Gentiles who became converts to Judaism were called ____

Answer 30

Proselytes

Question 31

Atop the Greek pantheon or hierarchy of gods sat ______

Answer 31

Zeus