Lesson 2 Flashcards
- Name four of the five “Major Events in Roman Occupation in the Time of Herod?”
a) 40 B.C. The Roman senate appointed Herod, an Idumean descendant of Esau to be king of Judea. Herod the Great was perhaps the most cruel and wicked despot of all time.
b) 37 B.C. Herod took Jerusalem and slew Antigonus, the last of the Maccabean king-priests.
c) 31 B.C. Caesar Augustus became emperor of Rome, claiming statues as a god and demanding worship.
d) 19 B.C. The construction of the Herod’s temple in Jerusalem was begun. The building had been going on quite a while when Jesus was born and continued during the time of the New Testament.
- Under Rome the country was divided into what five basic geographical regions?
a) Judea
b) Samaria
c) Galilee
d) Perea
e) Decapolis
- Multiple Choice
Whose beliefs does the following best describe? “Strict legalists who believed the Old Testament, their main distinguishing characteristic was a belief in an Oral Law that God gave to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah.”
C is all that is required
a) Zealots
b) Essenes
c) Pharisees (This is the correct answer)
d) Saducees
- Name the two main religious groups during the time of Jesus’ ministry.
Pharisees and Saducees
- What was the Sanhedrin?
a) A kind of Jewish Supreme Court whose responsibility was to interpret civil and religious laws. Composed of 70 elders plus the High Priest.
b) Held power over the religious and social areas of Judea, but could not carry out the death penalty. Yet they were quick to stone any who objected, (e.g. Stephen)
c) Both Pharisees and Sadducees served in the Great Sanhedrin.
d) While most the members were hostile to Jesus, two Pharisees that served on this council, Nicodemus and Joseph were friendly.
- Describe the main characteristics of the Scribes.
a) The scribes were professional expounders of the Law, going back to the days of Ezra
b) The lawyers and interpreters became the “hair-splitters” more concerned with the letter of the Law than with the spirit of the Law.
- What were the Zealots?
Jewish religious-political faction of Judah, existing for a period of about 70 years or possible more, in the 1st century CE.
- Who were the Herodians?
The Herodians were a party of strictly political opportunists. They sought to maintain the Herod family on the throne, because they wanted their party in power.
- True/False
_____/_____ Rich grazing country stretched southward from Jerusalem.
False
- Name four sources of information about the life of Jesus.
a) Jesus is mentioned in pagan literature, e.g. Josephus, a Jewish historian. Jesus is mentioned by him not as a central figure but as a challenge to the status quo b) The epistles
c) The writings of the first and second century “Church Fathers”
d) The principal source (95%) is from the four Gospels
e) Old Testament gives us insights. Prophecies and these are fulfilled in the man Jesus
- What are the common divisions of the Gospels?
a) Synoptic (to put or fuse together) gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke
b) Asynoptic gospel; John
