Chapters 1-4

Question 1

What are the three main features of pagan religion?

Answer 1

Polytheism, idol worship, and sacrifice

Question 2

What is polytheism?

Answer 2

Belief in many gods

Question 3

What is idol worship?

Answer 3

Idols are statues of gods. People hugged/kissed them, dressed them up

Question 4

What is sacrifice?

Answer 4

Offering a gift to a god, followed by a communion meal. (Pagan communion meals include meat and were like a rowdy, drunken party

Question 5

What is the most important part of pagan religion?

Answer 5

Giving something to the god, to get something in return

Question 6

What is magic?

Answer 6

Appeal to a daemon or spirit being for personal favors

Question 7

What is fate?

Answer 7

What is predetermined to happen

Question 8

What is astrology?

Answer 8

The study of the stars to know the future. It was taken seriously in pagan religion.

Question 9

What is monotheism?

Answer 9

Belief in one god

Question 10

What is ethical monotheism?

Answer 10

God gave his people a moral code to live by

Question 11

What did Jews do to persevere their identity?

Answer 11

A) created rules about preparation of food, etc. the rules are called “kosher”.

B) their put their laws and legends into writing a holy book

Question 12

What is the Shema?

Answer 12

1) The Lord is your God, the Lord alone
2) Therefore you shall love the Lord
3) With all your heart, all your mind, all your strength

Question 13

How many Jews lived in the Roman Empire?

Answer 13

One million +

Question 14

About how many Jews lived in Alexandria Egypt?

Answer 14

250,000

Question 15

What was the Jews label for non Jews? What did it mean?

Answer 15

Gentiles which meant “the nations”.

Question 16

Who is Artemis?

Answer 16

Goddess of fertility

Question 17

What are some characteristics of apocalyptic books? Why were they written?

Answer 17

Images that consist of a catastrophic time for the world, when God sends plagues/storms to destroy the world and punish the wealthy and Rome for failure to acknowledge the one true God. To schlock the reader into being associated with Rome

Question 18

Who are the Essenes?

Answer 18

They thought they were the most pure Jews because they were removed from Jerusalem, where Jess had been corrupted by association with the Romans and other Gentiles.

Question 19

Who are the Pharisees and what did they do?

Answer 19

The Pharisees promoted close observance of the law of Moses and Mosaic law to preserve the Jews’ identity.

Question 20

Who are the zealots and what did they want to do?

Answer 20

The stated goal of the zealots was to drive the Romans out of Palestine altogether. This foal wasn’t to realistic to be able to be completed.

Question 21

What are three things which help to account for the Jewish people’s guess that Jesus wasn’t the long promised Messiah?

Answer 21

• challenged external observances of Jewish laws
• conversed with the “wrong” people
• committed blasphemy

Question 22

What is the Hebrew word for Jesus? What’s it mean?

Answer 22

Messiah = “the anointed one”

Question 23

What’s the Greek Christos mean?

Answer 23

Christos = Messiah

“Christ” comes from Christos

Question 24

What are apostles?

Answer 24

The ones who are sent

Question 25

What does catholic mean?

Answer 25

“universal, for all”