RE EXAM DEFINITIONS Flashcards
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Pharisees
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People who were keen to keep the law of the Torah
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Scribes
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Well educated Jews who wrote about Jewish laws and traditions
3
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Jew
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Someone who believed in Jewish traditions
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Gentile
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Someone who doesn’t believe in a religion
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Persecution
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I’ll treatment to someone for their religious beliefs
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Essenes
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Were a faction of desert people who only believed in one god
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Sadducees
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priests of the temple who only believed in the first 5 books
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Zealots
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Tried to end the rulers of Rome and only recognised the messiah
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Sinners
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People that were labelled because they were poor or sick
