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Historical Evidences of Jesus' Existence Flashcards

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are our principal sources in proving the existence of the historical Jesus

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Christian Scriptures

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tells us of a certain Jesus of Nazareth who preached, performed miracles, was crucified and rose again from the dead

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New Testament

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a Roman historian, writes in his Annals (15. 44.) of the great fire which swept through the city of Rome in 64 A.D.

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Tacitus

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(stepson and successor to Claudius) was generally believed to have started the fire, Nero wanted to fix the blame on someone else

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Emperor Nero

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recounts the story of the fire and Nero’s successful attempt to fix the blame on the Christians.

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Tacitus in 115-117 A.D

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They got their name from Christ, who was executed by sentence of the procurator _________ in the reign of Tiberius

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Pontius Pilate

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Significantly, this is the only place in all ancient Roman histories where Pilate is mentioned, though the Jewish writers ______________ record his cruel rule in Judea

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Philo and Josephus

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Tacitus did not use Jesus’ proper name; he used the word ______, the religious title which was used by Christians outside of Palestine as a proper title for Jesus.

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Christ

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known to history as a master letter writer.

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Pliny the Younger

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he was appointed imperial legate of the Roman province of Bithynia in northwest Asia Minor

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Pliny the Younger.

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Pliny the Younger carried on a constant correspondence with the Roman emperor,

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Trajan

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In one of these letters he advised the emperor about how he ought to treat the rapidly spreading religious group known as the

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Christians

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Pliny mentioned that the “___________” of Christianity had spread so rapidly that the pagan temples had fallen into disuse

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superstition

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Pliny recounted the Christian custom of celebrating what we know as the sacrament of the __________ on “a fixed day of the week”.

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Eucharist

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Born around 37 A.D., he fought against the Romans in the great revolt of 66-70 A.D. and was appointed commander of the Jewish forces in Galilee.

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Josephus

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was captured by the Romans, but, because he predicted that he commander-in-chief of the Roman army in Palestine, _______, would one day be emperor, his life was spared to see if his prediction would come true

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Josephus, Vespasian

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Josephus later composed a 20-volume history of the Jews entitled the

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Jewish Antiquities

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The Roman author _______ compiled biographies of the first 12 Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar onward

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Suetonius

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made a mistake in his retelling of the Jewish expulsion from Rome in 49 A.D. in assuming that Christ was there

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Suetonius

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thought Christians and Jews were really members of the same religious sect and consequently banished them from Rome because of the civil disturbances.

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Claudius

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Luke writes in Acts 18:2 that when Paul arrived in Corinth about 50 A.D., he found there “a Jew named ________, a native of Pontus, recently arrived from Italy with his wife, _________.

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Aquila, Priscilla

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What is most significant in this piece of evidence is the point that by the middle of the first century, a strong testimony of Christ was made in the capital of the ________

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Roman Empire (Rome)

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They claimed they came into being because this Jesus who was put to death now lived

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Pagan Roman Sources.

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we have mention of Jesus and his followers in three separate Roman writers:

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Suetonius, Tacitus and Pliny the
Younger

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If we realize that Palestine was considered a bothersome, though minor, province in the large Roman Empire, we should not be too surprised to find little written evidence by the

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pagan

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In this history Josephus attempted to demonstrate to the Roman world, and especially to the new emperor, the Jew-hating ___________(81-96 A.D.), that the Jews were a noble people.

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Domitian

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In the 18th book of the history, he gave a favorable report of John the Baptist and called him a

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good man

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Josephus noted in the 20th book that _______ the younger (the son of the
high priest mentioned in the Gospels) put to death in 62 A.D.

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Annas

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_________the Just whom we identify
as the apostle and one of the leaders of the Christian community in Jerusalem.

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James

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In the 18th book of his Jewish Antiquities, Josephus gives an account of various troubles the people of
Judea suffered under the governorship of _________

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Pontius Pilate

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The Church father Origen maintained that Josephus was a ___________.

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nonbeliever

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Regardless of what _________either wrote to believed, it is most significant that he did not question the actual historical existence of Jesus

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Josephus

33
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was a traveling lecturer and Sophist rhetor who wrote about Jesus Christ as a man crucified in Palestine for introducing a new cult

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Luciano

LUCIANO DI SAMOSATA

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In Luciano’s writings, Luciano said, this Jesus persuaded his followers that they were all __________ to one another

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brothers

35
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The Christians, according to Luciano, “worshiped the _____________ and lived under his laws.

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crucified sophist

36
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to the Babylonian Talmud spoke of a certain Yeshu who practiced
magic and led his followerd into apostacy

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baraita

BABYLONIAN TALMUD

37
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This ______was “hanged on the eve of the Passover.”

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Yeshu

38
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The ___________ sources give us scanty information about Jesus. However, they do establish that Jesus existed, died and had followers.

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non-Christian

39
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Enumerate the Non-Christian Sources

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1.Pagan Roman Sources
- Suetonius
- Tacitus
- Pliny the Younger

  1. Jewish Source
    - Josephus
  2. Other Sources
    - LUCIANO DI SAMOSATA (c.A.D. 120-180
    - BABYLONIAN TALMUD
40
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Our primary source of knowledge for Jesus and his message and mission is the form of literature known as the

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Gospel

41
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The __________________ established the facts of the existence of a man whom the early Christians claimed to be both the most remarkable of all human beings and the Son of God.

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four New Testament Gospels

42
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present clear, strong, carefully reasoned and repeated evidence that the faith of the early Christians was in fact based on a real historical
person

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Gospels

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Gospels, are neither _________. Jesus did not write them.

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autobiography nor biography

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The Gospels’ primary purpose is

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not to give a detailed account of Jesus’ historical (earthly) life

45
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the years Jesus spent in Nazareth or His childhood years before his bar mitzvah in Jerusalem at the age of 12.

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hidden years

46
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The ________ are faith summaries

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Gospels

47
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Gospels describe what the early Christians held to be most significant about Jesus, namely, that

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He is the Gospel, He is the Good News

48
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In Jesus, God had manifested himself in a

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a total, unconditional way

49
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humankind is saved by being
______________.

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reconciled to God

50
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is a unique product of early Christianity and as such must held to be characteristic of a distinctive element in early Christian faith

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gospel

51
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In Matthew and Luke, this is again prefaced by an “______________,” which looks like but is not a report on the circumstances of Jesus’ birth (how Jesus was born), but rather a theological reflection on the meaning of the person and birth of Jesus.

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Infancy Narrative

52
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In the Fourth Gospel (John) the selection of words and deeds of Jesus is prefaced by a

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Prologue

53
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Modern scholars insist that the gospels do not give us an accurate portrayal of Jesus’ ministry, but rather

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a testimony to the early Christian experience expressed by means of an
arrangement of a traditional materials concerning Jesus and His disciples.

54
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history of the early Christian experience as lived in various communities is cast in the form of a

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chronicle of the ministry of Jesus

55
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The Synoptic Gospels (“_______” came from the Greek word __________, “common view”.

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synoptic , synoptikos

56
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The Synoptic Gospels

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Matthew, Mark and Luke

57
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basically speak of faith in Jesus Christ as the messiah who offers salvation to all peoples.

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Synoptic Gospels

58
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These Sypnotic Gospels reveal the

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sayings, parables, sermons, miracles and stories about Jesus.

59
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The word “gospel” (from old English “god-spel,” i.e., “good story” is a translation of the Greek word “_____________meaning “good news.”

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vangelion

60
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The good news referred to is the

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coming of Jesus

61
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_____________is the name which comes from Hebrew name Joshua or Yehoshua, a name which could be translated as _____________

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Jesus, God saves

62
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Christ from Greek word _____
meaning “_______, Messiah

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Cristos , Anointed One

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