Midterm Flashcards
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Essenes
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- pious ones
- communal group focused on service and correct temple practice
- daily baptism
- life of study and devotion to purity-wanted to be ritually pure, kind of take things to the extreme
- immortality of souls
- Qumran community and Dead Sea Scrolls
- correct priestly family in charge of the temple
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Greeks
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language of Roman Empire influenced language
philosophical schools also influenced
3
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Herod Antipas
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- Herod Antipas gets Galilee and Peraea
- imprisons John the Baptist and beheads him
- son of Herod
4
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Herod Philip
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- built an administrative center and temple to honor Augustus
- one of Herod’s sons
- Caesarea Philippi
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Herod the Great
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- king when Christ was born
- when he dies his kingdom is split between his sons
- plays Roman empire well to put him in power
- paranoid man who kills all infants because of the threat to his power
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Book of Matthew
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- Written by Matthew
- Jewish audience
- portrays Christ as a fulfillment of OT prophecy
- includes genealogy
- life of Christ parallels history of Israel
- primarily deals with Jesus’ Galilee ministry
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Matthew
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- tax collector
- also called Levi
- name is Hebrew for Gift of Jehovah
- member of the 12
8
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Mark
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- cousin of Barnabas
- missionary companion of Paul and Barnabas
- leaves mission early and creates tensions with Paul but they later reconcile and he goes with him to Rome
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Book of Mark
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- focus on Jesus’ ministry in Galilee
- written to Roman Gentiles outside Palestine(proof in translation of Aramaic words, mentions Roman divorce laws, Latin terms are used, explains geography and culture)
- emphasis on miracles and action
- later a focus on the cross
10
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What is Messianic secret and where is it found
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- book of Mark
- Kingdom of God
- Exorcisms
- Healings
- Disciples
- everything kept on the DL
11
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Luke
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- physician
- companion of Paul, Silas, Timothy on 2nd and 3rd missionary journeys
12
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Book of Luke
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- gospel written in conjunction with Acts
- deals with ministry in Galilee
- gentile writing to a Gentile
- primarily Greek audience
- discusses universality of the Church
13
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3 elements of writing for Luke
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- eyewitnesses and servants of the word
- many who were writing accounts
- his own careful investigation
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John
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- John the Beloved
- Son of Zebedee and brother of James
- unnamed disciple in his writing
- member of the 12 (one of the closes to Jesus,)
- witness to raising of Jairius’ Daughter
- mount of transfiguration
- in Gethsemane
- called the disciple whom Jesus loved
- eyewitness of His life
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Book of John
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- focus on Christ’s ministry in Judea
- written for believers in Christ to strengthen their concept of Christ’s divinity
- has sermons not found in the other gospels (Bread of Life, Living Water, Light of the World)
- less action and miracles
- lengtheir sermons and teachings
- emphasis on last week of Jesus’ life and the Atonement
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What are the Synoptic Gospels
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- synoptic = seeing together
- similarities in structure, tone and content
- same general geographic sequence (Galilee, sojourn to north, iminstry in Judea, final time in Jerusalem)
- intersperse miracles with brief teachings
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What are The Gospels
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- genre of Literature (not biographies or histories)
- portrait of the Savior and His Gospel
- answers needs of Jews, Greeks, Romans, and confessed Christ as Lord
- no manuscripts written by authors own hand
- titles added later