Lesson 2 Flashcards
List 5 religious groups in the Second Temple period
Sadducees
Pharisees
Essenes
Zealots
Christian sect of Judaism
The Zealots formed a political movement that sought to eradicate what 2 things
Roman influence
Roman politics/politicians
Which 2 groups believed in a coming Messiah, the resurrection of the dead, and the supremacy of Scripture
Pharisees
Christians
In the first century “Greek” was not an ethnicity, but more of a what
A basic cultural commonality in the Mediterranean world
What was the goal of Alexander the Great
Conquer the world and spread Macedonian (Greek) culture to every place
What was central to the formation of the NT and the NT world
The spread of Kione Greek
What was the result of Kione Greek becoming the lingua franca of the entire region
Commerce and travel greatly increased
What sort of religion was Christianity from the outset
Evangelistic
Who is the hinge figure of Christians History
John the Baptist
John the Baptist’s life strikingly resembles the lives of which two OT figures
Moses
Elijah
