Exam 1: Short IDs (40%)

Question 1

Dialougue with Trypho the Jew

Answer 1

Chrisitianity started as an intellectual debate with Jews
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Earliest known debate is by Justin the Martyr
“Christianity is judaism without the shackles of ceremonial law”

Question 2

Justin the Martyr

Answer 2

Debated with Jews abt why Chrisitans deserve to exist
1) jesus resurrected
2) jesus had divine magical powers
3) god wanted mercy not pagan sacrifices

Question 3

Acts of Scillitian Martyrs

Answer 3

• from north africa
• 12 individual willing to die
• honored the tradition of martyrdom

Question 4

Pharisees

Answer 4

very strictly adherent to mosiac law and scribal law

Question 5

Saducees

Answer 5

mainly aristocratic… only cared abt mosaic law (not scriptural), rejected resurrection

Question 6

Gnostics

Answer 6

Took symbolism literally
* Light =Aeons
* Emphasis on Knowledge to save ur Aeon

Greek Dualism: struggle between good and evil
* evil= material world
* good= metaphysical realm

Question 7

Nag Hammadi Library

Answer 7

clearest account of gnostic texts.
found in egypt
clear cosmology of minor dieties.

Question 8

Yaldaboath

Answer 8

Son of Sophia (Wisdom)
Made asexually,
Old Testament God ( a bit cranky).

Question 9

Barbelo

Answer 9

Virginal Light, combined with God to have Jesus

Question 10

Pleorma

Answer 10

Divine Realm for Gnostics

Question 11

Crimes Christians Commited

According to Discussion abt Pliny’s Letter to Trajan

Answer 11

1. Atheism
2. Incest
3. No Sacrifice to Roman God
4. meeting in secret
   5.

Question 12

Clement of Alexandria

Answer 12

Born of Pagan parents
Head of Alexandrian School
Manners: Sex, Drinking, Food, etc

Question 13

Origen (of Alexandria)

Answer 13

Clement = predessor
Philosophical, theologiclal intellectual.

Question 14

Collegia

Answer 14

A private group organized for financial gain

Question 15

Domitian

Answer 15

81-96: First emperor to demand offerings to emperor geni(us)

Question 16

Celsum

Answer 16

Pagan who wrote against Christianity.
wrote alot abt “these christians, they, they, they”

Question 17

“they say everyone is a sinner, so the pool is wider to convert”

Answer 17

Celsum

Question 18

“these christians, they believe in tricks, magic, greek myths”

Answer 18

celsum