Social Groups & Religious Groups

Question 1

Describe the zealots

Answer 1

“To be hot” traced back to The Maccabees. Tax revolters and nationalist Jews. Stirred the people to riot and revolt

Question 2

Diaspora

Answer 2

Dispersed and scattered Jews. Paul always went to them first because he knew he would have an audience wherever he went. Essential to spreading the gospel’s

Question 3

Proselytes a.k.a. converts

Answer 3

Converts through ceremonies. Not born into the kingdom but now they are. They are also known as newcomers

Question 4

Samaritans

Answer 4

Mixed race of Jewish ancestry. Look down on by the traditional Jews. Nehemiah did not allowed them to help rebuild the temple

Question 5

Describe the synagogue

Answer 5

Place of prayer instruction in the word hospitality in caregiving

Question 6

Scribes

Answer 6

Also called teachers are lawyers. Primary job is copyists of scripture ability to read and write. Only about 10% of the people have the ability to read and write

Question 7

Who wrote the Talmud and mishnah?

Answer 7

The scribes

Question 8

Pharisees

Answer 8

Middle class. Came into existence about 135 BC. Focused on the ceremonial law. Memorize the Torah from childhood

Question 9

What were the two Jerusalem schools?

Answer 9

Hillel: liberal

Shummai: Conservative

Question 10

Sadducees

Answer 10

Upper class. Favorite Greek philosophy. They do not believe in the afterlife or in angels. Political positions they are more patriotic than spiritual

Question 11

Priesthood

Answer 11

Descendants of Aaron or The Maccabees. Regulated sacrifices in the temple and they wanted Jesus dead.

Question 12

Sanhedrin political but religious

Answer 12

Highest group of Jewish leaders in the community. Patterned after the Jethro principal 7272 men that tried
religious cases

Question 13

Mars

Answer 13

God of war

Question 14

Diana

Answer 14

Fertility goddess

Question 15

Dike

Answer 15

Goddess of justice

Question 16

Mercury

Answer 16

Messenger of God

Question 17

Jupiter

Answer 17

Sky god

Question 18

Emperor worship 

Answer 18

Thought to bring cohesion to the Empires other religions were kept as long as Caesar was honored

Question 19

Epicureans

Answer 19

Very influential. They believe that this life is all there is. Which leads to hedonsim

Question 20

Stoics

Answer 20

Keys to life are inside you. Desire to live in peace and harmony. God is an impersonal force with no feelings.

Question 21

Academics

Answer 21

Life is explain through science. Where math and science began. Suspend judgment until you can prove it

Question 22

Plato

Answer 22

Created dualism. Spiritual and physical. Focused in the world of ideas. They believe that the physical was evil in the spiritual was good

Question 23

Aristotle

Answer 23

Train by PLATO. Focused on the physical and material world. The answers are in the world

Question 24

Gnosticism

Answer 24

A Blended philosophy and religious jargon.

The material world was created as an act of rebellion by a lesser God.