Final Exam Flashcards
Navi
Messenger of YHWH
Amos
Man of the country side
Part of the Book of the 12
Hosea
Unfaithfulness and Exile
Part of the book of the 12
Megillot
Five Scrolls 1 Ruth 2 Song of Songs 3 Lamentations 4 Ecclesiastes 5 Esther
Liturgy
Set order of things to worship
Personification
Human like characteristics to inhuman things
Simile
Uses like or as
Allegory
Something that represents something else
Doxology
Praise to God
Zion
Hill in Jerusalem with the Temple
Mashal
Proverbs
Koheleth
Ecclesiastes
Apocalypse
Revealing of unseen things
Acrostic
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Court Prophets
Made holy what the King said
Ecstatic Prophet
Crazy prophets
Divination
The attempt to see the future with anything (object)
Sicarii
Dagger Men
Synagogue
Place of Worship for Jews
Gemara
Interpretation of the Mishnah
Mishnah
Oral interpretation that was finally written down
Talmud
Include Mishnah and Gemara
Purim
Festival of lots
Ishtar
Goddess
Eschatology
Theology about the end of humanity
Hasidim
Holy ones
Oneiromancy
Using dreams to tell the future
Theomachy
Deities fighting for dominance
Pharisees
Oral followers
Sadducees
Written followers
Rabbis
Synagogue
Logos
Wisdom, reason
Hanukkah
Festival of Lights
Rededication of the Temple
Apocrypha
scripture
Pseudepigrapha
False works of literature
Midrash
Oral interpretations written down
Essenes
Super pure
Waiting for judgment
Tough to join
Cyrus Cylinder
Physical evidence that the Jew could come back
Zealots
Violent people who follow the law
Ekklesia
Faithful people