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Question 1

Diaspora -

Answer 1

designation for jews who live outside Palestine. Since Babylonian exile more jews have always lived outside Palestine than lived inside Palestine

Question 2

apocalyptic -

Answer 2

genre of literature and a way of understanding the world; genre has heavenly being bring a message about God’s actions to enact justice; both literature and worldview envision this action happening soon. Fullest example of the genre in the New Testament is the book of Revelation

Question 3

proselyte -

Answer 3

gentile who converts fully to judaism

Question 4

synagogue -

Answer 4

place of worship and study, as well as a community center for Jews from the sixth or fifth century BCE forward

Question 5

pericope -

Answer 5

extract from a text, especially a passage from the Bible

Question 6

parable -

Answer 6

usually a way Jesus tried to make his message understandable for his audience; mark sees them as a way for Jesus to hide his message from people who are not part of his group

Question 7

Q -

Answer 7

designation for the written source that contained the preserved sayings of Jesus; both matthew and luke used Q to supplement the material they found in mark. no copies of this have survived

Question 8

synoptic -

Answer 8

designation for matthew, mark, and luke, given because they are alike in so many ways; Synoptic Problem is the question of how these Gospels are related to one another; most interpreters think they have some literary relationship