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Hamartiology

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Theology of Sin

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Atonement of Sin

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  • Sacrifices
  • Pharisees: Good works
  • Maccabe: martyrdom of the faithful
    => Orthodox: require martyrdom, fought in battles
  • Giving gifts: alms, leveling playing field
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3
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Menelaus

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Changing rules, changing society (capital offense)

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Social Classes

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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)
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The Church

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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

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Redemption Story

During the Intertestamental Period

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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

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How God communicated

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  • Scripture
  • Moses/lan (oral revelation)
  • Special revelation (creation)
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Prayer vs. Devotion

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  • Prayer
    More legalistic
    Quietly, specific
  • Devotion
    Giving of resources (i.e. time)
    Prayer
    Participating in life of ministry
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Law

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  • 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
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Family

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  • 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
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Pseudepigrapha

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false writings

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Heretic

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  • wrong idea/ thinking

- Deliberate denial of revealed truth coupled with the acceptance of error

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“Jesus Fish”

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  • How Christians communicated

- Helped them see if someone was a spy or not and if they should feel safe to share faith with

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Three groups developed during the Maccabean Revolt

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  • 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
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Disphora

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any Jew Living outside of Palestine

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16
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Senatorial

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  • areas away from Rome

- made up of procounsels and procurators

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Imperial

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  • Rome
  • proraetors
  • collector of taxes
18
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Procounsels

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  • leaders assigned by Roman senate to different territories
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Procurators

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  • assigned by Roman empire to watch the procouncels to make sure they do right by the emperor