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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
Q

In our Bibles the New Testament books DO or DO NOT appear in chronological order of their writing?

A

DO NOT

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2
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The Old Testament was originally written in the __________ language

A

Hebrew

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3
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_________ means having a general or universal rather than specific address

A

Catholic

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4
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Under the Persians there began the ___________ sometimes called “the four hundred silent years”

A

Intertestamental Period

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5
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The Greek culture called _________ had been spreading for some time through Greek trade and colonization

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Hellenism

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6
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The Greek language became the ___________ or common trade and diplomatic language

A

lingua franca

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7
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At Alexander’s death, the empire was divided into ______ parts

A

4

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8
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The ________ empire centered in Egypt

A

Ptolemaic

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9
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The _______ empire centered in Syria

A

Seleucid

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10
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Under Ptolemy Philadelphus Jewish scholars began to translate the Hebrew Old Testament into a Greek version called the…

A

Septuagint

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11
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__________ replaced the Jewish high priest Onias 111 with Jason, who started making Jerusalem into a __________ ____________

A

Epiphanes, greek-styled city

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12
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Jews who opposed this paganization of their culture were called _____________ which meant __________ people

A

Hasideans, pious

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13
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Antiochus Epiphanes replaced the Jewish high priest Jason with ____________

A

Menelaus

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14
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To the Jews this was selling of the high priest office to the _______ __________ and they resented it

A

highest bidder

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15
Q

The first five books of the Old Testament are called the __________

A

Pentateuch

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16
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In 168 B.C. when General Apollonius and his army enforced paganism, it became a capital offense to what 4 things?

A

practice circumcision, observe the sabbath, celebrate Jewish festivals or possess scrolls of the Old Testament books

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17
Q

Pagan sacrifices became compulsory and an altar to the Syrian god _________ was erected in the temple

A

Zeus

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18
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In the village of Modein, a priest named ___________ revolted and fled to the mountains with his five sons

A

Mattathias

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19
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The Maccabean Revolt began in __________ B.C.

A

167

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20
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The Mattathias family, known as the Hasmoneans, later lost many of their supporters who split off into Essenes and the ____________

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Pharisees

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21
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The aristocratic and politically minded supporters of the Hasmonean priest-kings became the ____________

A

Sadducees

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22
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After the assassination of Julius Caesar, ___________ became the first Roman emperor

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Augustus

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23
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The Roman emperor at Jesus birth was ___________

A

Augustus

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24
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The Roman emperor under whom Jesus ministered and died was ____________

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Tiberius

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25
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The Roman emperor who expelled Jewish residents from Rome, for example Aquila and Priscilla; ___________

A

Claudius

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26
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The Roman emperor who persecuted Christians, and under whom Peter and Paul were martyred; ____________

A

Nero

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27
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Jews resented Herod the Great because he was an Idumean, which was a descendant of _________

A

Esau

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28
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__________ was a fortress on the west side of the Dead Seas where more than _____________ committed mass suicide just before the Romans entered to capture them

A

Masada, 900

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29
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The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Romans occurred in A.D. ________

A

70

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30
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The Romans rebuilt Jerusalem as a Roman city, and banned Jews from entering it. Thus the Jewish state ceased to exist until _________

A

1948

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31
Q

The New Testament means…

A

New Covenant

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32
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_________ was the legal language of the Roman Empire

A

Latin

33
Q

The Jews had picked up ______ a sister language to their traditional Herbrew, during the exhile

A

Aramaic

34
Q

The Jews despised the inhabitants of __________

A

Samaria

35
Q

________ was the primary means of commercial transportation

A

Water

36
Q

Writing materials for important manuscripts were leather or ________, but for letters and other documents, such things as, ____________, ________, __________

A

parchment, papyrus, ostraca, wax tablets

37
Q

A strong _________ __________ did not exist because slaves did most of the work

A

middle class

38
Q

Tax collectors were called __________

A

publicans

39
Q

The Roman overlords _______ the job of tax collecting to the one who bid the lowest rate of commission for a contract

A

auctioned

40
Q

A number of slaves bought their freedom, sometimes in the name of a god of the temple where they banked their savings; a procedure known as ______ __________

A

sacral manumission

41
Q

The technical term for marriage between relatives; _________ kept property and other forms of wealth within the clan

A

Endogamy

42
Q

Both contraception and ________ were practiced by the Greco-Roman family

A

abortion

43
Q

After birth, a Jewish boy was circumcised and named on the ________ day

A

eighth

44
Q

The average lifespan of men was _________ years and __________ years for women

A

40, 34

45
Q

The construction of pavement and public buildings were often financed by the _________

A

wealthy

46
Q

The term ______ _______ means a personality largely determined by others instead of being yourself

A

dyadic personality

47
Q

The librarian at Alexandria who accurately calculated the Earth’s circumference as well as the distance to the sun was ___________

A

Eratosthenes

48
Q

Atop the Greek pantheon or hierarchy of gods sat _________

A

Zeus

49
Q

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

A

Yahweh

50
Q

In a practice known as _________ pagan people simply combined various religious beliefs and superstitious practices

A

Syncretism

51
Q

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

A

asceticism

52
Q

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

A

libertinism, sensualism

53
Q

Gnosticism comes from gnosis, the Greek word for ___________

A

knowledge

54
Q

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

A

Stoicism

55
Q

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

A

cynicism

56
Q

The “golden text” of Judaism was the _________

A

Shema

57
Q

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

A

Targum

58
Q

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

A

Herod The Great

59
Q

The temple stood in a court that covered about ______ acres of the ground

A

26

60
Q

Inside the first room stood three pieces of furniture; the ___________ and __________ and ____________

A

menorah, table, altar

61
Q

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

A

Ark of the Covenant

62
Q

The high priest entered the holiest of holies one day a year; the day of ____________

A

Atonement

63
Q

The Jewish civil year began in __________

A

Spetember-October

64
Q

The Jewish religious year began ____________

A

March-April

65
Q

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

A

Apocryphal

66
Q

Thus, _______ means “hidden secret”

A

apocrypha

67
Q

The _______ ________ _________ were approximately eight hundred scrolls discovered in caves near the ruins of ____________

A

Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran

68
Q

The Talmud consists of the _________ or oral law

A

Mishnah

69
Q

Jewish beliefs sprang from the _____ _____ ______ not paganism or mythology, mysticism or philosophic explanation

A

acts of God

70
Q

The _________ meant “separated ones”

A

Pharisees

71
Q

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

A

Sadducees

72
Q

__________ may have originally meant “members of the supreme counsel”

A

Sadducees

73
Q

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

A

Essenes

74
Q

The ________ did not offer animal sacrifices in the temple at Jerusalem, because they regarded it as polluted by a corrupt priesthood

A

Essenes

75
Q

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

A

Herodians

76
Q

Revolutionaries dedicated to overthrow the Roman power, and refused to pay taxes to Rome were known as _________

A

Herodians

77
Q

The Jewish supreme court was known as the Great _________

A

Sanhedrin

78
Q

The _________ Jews retained their Judaistic faith and their Jewish language and customs and incurred Gentile hatred for their Hellenists who adopted the Greek language and customs

A

Hebraist

79
Q

Gentiles who became converts to Judaism were called _________

A

proselytes

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