Fullness Of Time Flashcards
Palestine
The land in which Christianity first appeared.
The crossroads of the great trade routes joined what?
Egypt with Mesopotamia and Asia minor with Arabia.
In what century did Alexander the great and his Macedonian armies enter the arena?
In the fourth century BC E.
What did Alexander the great hope to accomplish in conquering the world?
To unite and enrich the world by spreading of the insights of Greek civilization.
What is Hellenism?
Elements of Greek origin combined with other elements taken from the conquered civilizations. Part of the Hellenistic ideology consisted of equating and mixing the gods of different nations.
What did the Jews view as a threat to Israel is faith in the one God?
The Hellenistic ideology that consisted of equating and mixing the gods of different nations. There was a constant struggle between Hellenizing pressures on the one hand and Jewish faithfulness to God and their traditions on the other hand.
What was the high point of the struggle after the conquest and Hellenization of Alexander the great for the Jews?
The Maccabean rebellion.
Who succeeded Alexander in the rule of Syria?
The Seleucids.
What happened in the 63 BC E?
Rome intervened and Pompeii conquered the land and opposed the last of the Maccabees, Aristobulus II.
After the conquest of Rome in a 63 BC what did the Roman government give the descendants of the Maccabees?
The Roman government gave the Maccabees some authority and used them in the governing the land giving them the titles of high priest.
Who was hair in at the great?
Herod the great was appointed king of Judea by the Romans in 40 BC he had a distant Maccabean claim for he had married a woman of that lineage.
What group of Jews opposed the Roman government?
The Zealot party.
Who are the Pharisees?
The party of the populace. They did not enjoy the material benefits of Roman rule and Hellenistic civilization. They were faithful to the Law.
Who were the Sadducees?
They belong to the Jewish aristocracy. They were conservative in politics and religion. Their focus was on the temple which they held with the support of the Romans who were favorable to them.
What were the two fundamental tenets of all Jews?
Ethical monotheism and eschatological hope.
