Exam One

Question 1

Exegesis

Answer 1

Uses scholarly tools to explicate texts meanings

Question 2

Hermeneutics

Answer 2

Considers how written documents make meaning - reflection on and application of text

Question 3

Hellenism

Answer 3

The adaption of Greek culture

Question 4

Polytheism

Answer 4

Many Gods (Religious view of Rome)

Question 5

Intersectionality

Answer 5

categories of identity best understood as overlapping

Question 6

Privatization of water

Answer 6

The political control of water access - apparent theme in NT

Question 7

Literal translations

Answer 7

word-for-word

Question 8

Dynamic equivalence translations

Answer 8

idea-for-idea

Question 9

Jew, Judean, Judaism

Answer 9

A person of the Jewish faith, someone who lived in Judea, the Jewish Religion

Question 10

2nd Temple Period

Answer 10

516 BCE - 70 CE

Question 11

Monotheism

Answer 11

One God

Question 12

Torah

Answer 12

The Law - Jewish scripture - first 5 books

Question 13

Pharisee

Answer 13

Forerunner to rabbinic tradition

Question 14

Sadducee

Answer 14

Temple leadership

Question 15

Essenes

Answer 15

aesthetic wilderness lifestyle, reject temple, dead sea scrolls

Question 16

Zealots

Answer 16

Strong anti-Roman ideology

Question 17

Herodians

Answer 17

Herod’s kingly line - puppet of Roman empire

Question 18

Gentiles

Answer 18

God fearers - gentile converts

Question 19

Samaritans

Answer 19

claim roots to lost tribes - completing claim over who is actually Israel

Question 20

Septuagint

Answer 20

Greek translation of Jewish scriptures

Question 21

Jesus

Answer 21

1st century Palestinian Jew with itinerant rural ministry

Question 22

Hasmoneans

Answer 22

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