Jew Final Flashcards
jeremiah
Prophesies AGAINST Jerusalem and the Temple (Jer 7, 26) Wears a yoke / showdown with Hananiah (Jer 27-28) Letter to the exiles already in Babylon (Jer 29); prophecy of restoration (Jer 31)
Habakkuk
Protests that God is unjust: the Babylonians are more wicked than the Judahites! Receives assurance that the Babylonians will not go unpunished. The righteous endure “by faith.”
Nebuchadnezzar
King of Babylon
Jehoiachin
taken into exile in Babylon along with family. along with ruling class, temple treasures
Zedekiah
appointed to throne by Nebuchadnezzar, but rebels against Babylon and sons killed in front of him and blinded
hokhmah
Hebrew word for wisdom
mashal/meshalim
short two- or three-line sayings that compare or contrast
elements in order to make a particular point
Abraham Tradition
A chosen people; heirs to the promise of land,
descendants, and blessing (”in you all the families
of the earth shall be blessed”)
Moses Tradition
A people of the Law; followers of the Torah; bearers
of the covenant; distinct from the nations
David Tradition
A kingdom under the rule of God and his anointed;
victorious over enemies; centralized worship at the
Temple
Cyrus
Cyrus, the Persian king, allows the
Jews to return to Jerusalem and
reinstate traditional worship of
YHWH
Nehemiah
(governor), the Jews rebuild the Temple (Ezra 6) and reinstate the Torah (Nehemiah 8). A slow, difficult process, not a glorious return
Diaspora
Many Jews lived outside of Israel (in
“scattered” communities
oikoumene
greek for inhabited world
Four beasts of Daniel
World empires portrayed as a succession of “beasts,” one after
the other, that will ultimately give way to the rule of “one like
the Son of Man
Antiochus IV
provoked a rebellion when he tried to wipe
out Judaism completely
Daniel
Served Nebud. Cyrus, Prophet who predicted the four beasts
Augustus Caesar
As adopted son of the deified
Julius Caesar, Augustus is “son of
a god.” Power comes from piety
auctoritas
latin for authority
pax Romana
Period of world peace under
Roman control
Sadducees
- Aristocratic, priestly group
- Control of Temple establishment
- Cooperative with the Romans
- Literal reading of Torah & rejection
of traditional interpretations
Pharisees
- Non-aristocratic; educated
- More numerous than other groups
- Centrality of Torah which must be
followed strictly and applied to daily
life with the aid of tradition - “fence around the Torah”
- Forerunners of rabbinic Judaism
fence around the Torah
laws instilled to prevent other laws from being broken
Essenes
- Separatist, priestly group
- Believed Jerusalem priesthood was corrupt
- Opposed to the Romans
- Created a strict community in the Judean
desert and left behind writings and biblical
manuscripts (Dead Sea Scrolls) - Anticipated two messiahs (royal and
priestly)
Zealots
- Believed it was necessary to take up arms against the Romans - Jewish revolt against Rome (66-73 CE) * Temple destroyed in 70 CE * - Bar Kochba rebellion (132-135 CE) also put down brutally by Rome
evangleion
a direct translation of the Greek evangelion ( lit. “good announcement” or “good tiding
euthus
greek immediately
Sermon on the Mount
Teachings on piety, prayer,
and attitudes toward oneself
and authors
Beatitudes
The eight ‘beatitudes’ (states
of blessedness). Mt 5:3-10
anithesis
The six ’antitheses’ contrast
’what you have heard’ with
‘what I say to you’. Mt 5:21-
48
kyrios
greek for lord
logos
greek for word
skene
greek for tent
eschaton
end of the world
eschatology
theology of the end of the world
ego eimi
greek for I am
Luke-Acts
The Gospel according to Luke and the Acts of the Apostles form distinct parts of a two-volume work on the first years of the Christian movement. Language: good, fluent, idiomatic Greek style; first volume of “Luke- Acts” Date: around 80 or 85 CE
Paul
Most important missionary in the NT; most prolific NT author (one-fourth to one- third of the NT). To tell the story of Paul is to tell the story of the movement. Born between 5 and 15 CE; died in mid 60s. Roman citizen from Tarsus (Hellenistic city); educated in Jerusalem; identified as a Pharisee. Known from LETTERS. Addressed to congregations and individuals. “Occasional,” that is, arising from specific circumstances. An authoritative word addressed to a community, read aloud in public; have an oral / aural character.
Jason
Housed Paul in Thessalonica
the present age
the age before Jesus
the age to come
after the return of jesus
last days
between the coming of Christ and his return
parousia
greek for presence or coming
Judaizers
Pro-circumcisers and Jewish sympathizers
pistis christou
greek for faith in christ
pedagogue
teacher
toga virillis
white toga representing manhood
how does the book of lamentatiosn portray the state of Jerusalem after its fall?
humiliated
PSALM 137 is?
mournful
How is wisdom like cosmic blueprint? How like a jigsaw?
God used wisdom to create all things. Its like a jigsaw because many mashals are wise and meshalims are many mashals and many are tiny pieces to the puzzle of creation.
Wisdom Literature books
Proverbs, Job, Eccelsiastes, some Psalms
What is meant by us living in a just world?
Righteous prosper, the wicked perish
Persian Period
538-332BCE
Hellenistic Period
332-63BCE
Maccabean Revolt
167-60BCE
Roman Period
63BCE onward
Augustus Rule
27BCE-14CE
What year was Temple destroyed by Romans?
70CE
Between what years were books of NT written?
40-100CE
Gospel of Mark written?
65-70CE
Marks beginning of evangelion
Jesus the
christos
(messiah), the
Son of God
Priene Calendar evangelion Inscription
the birthday of
the god Augustus
Purity of Jesus contagious how?
they liked the idea of a good king
messianic secret purpose
Jesus silences demons, forbidding them
from disclosing his identity (1:23-25, 34;
3:11-12).
Jesus warns those whom he heals to
remain silent (1:43-45; 5:43; 7:36; 8:26).
After Peter declares him to be the
Messiah, he warns the disciples not to
discuss his identity (*8:27-33).
After he is revealed in his glory as the Son
of God, he tells Peter, James, and John to
say nothing about it (9:9).
Gospel of Matthew written?
80-90CE
Four main points of genealogy for Jesus
Abraham, David, Exile, Jesus 42 generations
Gospel of Luke written?
80 or 85CE
what imperial imagery does luke use in his birth narrative?
army of angels appeared.
Jesus’s concern for gentiles ex:
Rejected by his own and sent to Gentiles (Lk 4:16-
30).
Tax collectors, women (10:38-42), sinners (ch.
15), widows (7:11-17), Samaritans (15:25-37).
The poor (16:19-31).
gospel of john written?
end of first century and beginning of second
two books in gospel of john
Books of signs and glory
