Christianity Quiz Flashcards
What did Constantine issue in 313?
The edict of Milan
Historians estimate that by 300 AD Christians were what percentage of the Roman people?
10
What did Theodosius do?
Outlawed public non-Christian ceremonies
The heads of the oldest and largest congregations in Rome
Powerful bishops
Patriarchs
The oldest and largest congregations in Rome?
Jerusalem Rome Antioch Alexandria Constantinople
What was the bishop of Rome later called?
Pope
Popes saw themselves as what? Where do they get this?
Spiritual heirs of Peter
Authority over all other bishops “on this rock I will build my church”
What happened before Matthew and when did it start?
400 silent years
Malachi
5 rules during the silent years?
Persian Macedonian Egyptian Syrian Maccabean Roman
two words for Persian?
Relatively mild
Macedonian rule did what?
Who ruled during this time?
Honored Jewish faith
Alexander
What happened in the Egyptian reign?
The Septuagint is translated (LXX) in Alexandria
2 occurrences in Syrian rule?
Antiochus epiphanes kills 40000 Jews, sacrifices a pig in the temple
Judas maccabeus rebels and cleanses temple
Who ruled and how in the Maccabean rule?
Judas’s descendants as priest kings
2 occurrences of Roman rule?
Pompey captures Jerusalem and ends self government
Herodians become political forces by cooperating with Rome
Economic change during this time?
Agrarian to commercial
Languages used and for what
Hebrew - religion only
Greek - business
Aramaic
Center of worship and study
Synagogue
4 groups of people
Sadducees
Pharisees
Zealots
Essenes
2 facts about Sadducees?
Priests
Didn’t believe in resurrection
Pharisees
Religious scholars
Legalists
Had support of the people
Zealots
Zeal against Romans
Terrorists
Essenes
Hermits who lived in the desert and separated themselves
John the Baptist?
When was Jesus born?
4 BC
