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Hamartiology
Theology of Sin
Atonement of Sin
- Sacrifices
- Pharisees: Good works
- Maccabe: martyrdom of the faithful
=> Orthodox: require martyrdom, fought in battles - Giving gifts: alms, leveling playing field
Menelaus
Changing rules, changing society (capital offense)
Social Classes
1) Aristocrates Small group land/business owners Politicians Only the men can vote
2) Commoners
served/worked for society
Did not own land
Middle Class had slaves (2 types)
1) Servant: go and hire himself out
2) Slaves: owned by masters
The largest group
Most despised groups of
Jews: tax collectors
Most common jobs Teachers Accountants (exchange money) Doctors (medicinal) Philosophers Executors (beheaded or crucified)
The Church
1) We are the light to a dark world
2) Significance to the insignificance
3) We experience mercy
4) Chosen people => chosen for a purpose
5) We are a royal priesthood
Help others access God
6) Holy Nation: set apart to god
God-honoring behavior
7) Value of something lies in who owns it
We are the community which theology is
Redemption Story
During the Intertestamental Period
1) Let Persians return to the land
2) Greek brought a common language
3) Romans: no more war/ brought peace
4) God enters, no distractions
How God communicated
- Scripture
- Moses/lan (oral revelation)
- Special revelation (creation)
Prayer vs. Devotion
- Prayer
More legalistic
Quietly, specific - Devotion
Giving of resources (i.e. time)
Prayer
Participating in life of ministry
Law
- How we behave with one another
- What we’re allowed to do in our faith
- Love: God, Others, Yourself
- Love God–Love me as God loves me–Love others as I love myself
- “Behavior”
- Praxis = actions based on theology
- “Law Code” that’s non-negotiable
- Mosaic Law and what rabbi’s taught
=> Practical: what rabbis taught, dietary, Sabbath
=> Theoretical: philosophical, Mosaic
Family
- Everyone is family (not extended vs nuclear as in the US)
- Units: Greeks and Romans slow birth rate (1-2 children)
- Arabs more children: larger families in rural/smaller
- Families in city: not enough jobs
=> 1st child
~ Boy: blessed family
By the 8th day, boy was circumcised and named
~ Girl: time of mourning before naming - Names given by
=> Politically: known by father’s name/ career/ religious convictions - Death of a loved one
=> Died before noon: buried that day
=> Died after noon: buried next day
Pseudepigrapha
false writings
Heretic
- wrong idea/ thinking
- Deliberate denial of revealed truth coupled with the acceptance of error
“Jesus Fish”
- How Christians communicated
- Helped them see if someone was a spy or not and if they should feel safe to share faith with
Three groups developed during the Maccabean Revolt
- Essenes
Moved out of Jerusalem into the mountains, gypsy life, prophetic writings - Pharisees
Into Old Testament Law, keepers of the law, Pentateuch - Sadducees
Aristocratic, temple party, seen in places to be “seen” rather than to worship
Disphora
any Jew Living outside of Palestine