The Rise And Influence Of New Testament Literature Flashcards

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What leaders began to carry the concept of logical reasoning to all parts of the world

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Alexander the Great

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Philo of Alexandria was the first to do what (20Bc-50CE)

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Reconciliation between faith and logic in his writing and the Greek translations of the tanakh

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Philo brought myth and logic together(through Hebrew test, Ptolemy, Philadelphus and Plato) by

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Stating there’s a difference between the essence of deity and the acts of the deity

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The essence of a God remains unknowable, power and acts must be interpreted by man & thought of scripture at metaphoric was made by who

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Philo with similarity to the concept of Plato

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Who moved away from polytheism and tried to unify faith and politics

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The Romans who were attracted to philos attempts & influenced Christian text

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How long has the messiah been in existence before the New Testament canon

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1200 years

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How long has the archetypal structure of a messianic character been in existence

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2500 years

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Concept of a messiah can be interpreted from what

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Hebrew text in over 300 places

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How did the writers of Hebrew text begin to prophesied of one day being redeemed by a savior

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Cultural circumstance or driven interactions

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The farthest of these prophesied appear in Genesis but abundance began to appear where

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Deuteronomy edits in 8th-7th century BC through Jeremiah Ezekiel &; Isaiah

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the end of world and coming of a savior spread after the Babylonia captivity and

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Became the first version of Hebrew text (400bc)

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Last year of 1st century BC there’s was a conflict between Hellenism and traditional Judaism Because why

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Hellenization semiotics in Palestine under the rule of Jewish kinda looked seats from the traditions of the religion for other philosophic guidance

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Who was born who resented the Roman occupation, knew Hellenistic &; traditional Jewish theology. Grew up in Galilee in Nazareth

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His name is Jesus

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Some thought Flavious Josephis as historic authentically of Christ but

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Through theological lexicographically it shows that the text where altered by Christian interpolation

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15
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Christ is attributed to gnostic traditions due to what

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Nature of combined archetypal structures

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Fist accounts of the Christ story where Paul and other gnostic leaders in

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51CE-58CE

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When was the earliest canonized gospel of mark and earliest gnostic gospel Thomas

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60-70CE &; 52-60CE

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Who was a Roman citizen and Hebrew and came from the tribe of Benjamin

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Saul of tarsus, the first harsh persecutor of Christian followers

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While hunting Christians Saul had a vision on his way to Damascus, where he was blinded and convinced to convert to Christianity. Then Cured by Ananias &; begins missionary work through the Mediterranean is seen in what book

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The book of art

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Saul changed his name to Paul and began to write letters to various cultures and christian moment leaders through the Mediterranean but does mention what

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Doesn’t mention the concept of virgin birth

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Multi versions of the life of Jesus in many communities made it difficult cohesiveness in what year

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50CE

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Town Antioch, a local Jesus movement turned into a full religion cause Saul of tarsus

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To lead under the name Paul the apostle to coordinate the stories of Jesus and make it cohesive

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Jesus was transformed into a divine being instead of just a teacher and prophet in what lit

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The letters of Paul saying Jesus was at the right hand of God

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66-73 CE destruction of the 2nd temple during the Romain-Jewish war a diaspora of no central control for both cultures caused what

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Hebrew local rabbis to be able to write and respond the questions of faith & allowed for rising Christian faith w/out oppression of Jewish leadership

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Following theological traditions of the 12 disciples who would’ve been the only one literate

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Matthew the tax collector

26
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Text analysis give evidence that the original works were transcribed decades after the literally event using the name of disciples by who

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Writers who felt inspired to describe the life of Christ or apostles born out of time

27
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Who called the council of Jerusalem in 50-52 CE

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Paul and early Jesus movement leaders

28
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What did the meeting focuse on

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If they would let Gentiles in along with Jews and weather or not to keep the Jewish laws

29
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Who thought all should be welcomed and not follow the rules of mosaic law

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Paul

30
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What were the results of the council

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Abandonment of temple worship
Opened of religion to all
Circumcision not necessary
Jesus existed in material and spiritual form ( beginning of division of gnostic and Ignostic)

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Ignatius of Antioch began to use the decisions of the council in his own writings and believed what

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That Jesus had only appeared in the spiritual form rather than both

32
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Letters of ignitions stated for the first time in church history that any version of the gospel must contain the mentions of what (100CE)

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Virgin birth
Role of Pilate
Jesus being seed of David
All other versions were corrupted

33
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As the western and middle eastern world moves into the Hellenistic age (4th-1st century BC) what happened

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Greeks extorted more control over the cultural element of society

34
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By the middle of 2nd century what ideologies where too great to ignore

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Gnostic Christian and Ecclesiastical

35
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Who began to construct their own philosophic concepts of what a Christian canon should contain

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Major leader of the new religion in the Mediterranean cites

36
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In who were most influential to the collection and early development of the cannon

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Valentimus of Alexandria 
Justin of Samaria 
Irenaeus 
Marcion of sinope 
Clement of Alexandria
37
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Who argued that gnostic Christians practiced heresy

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Irenaeus

38
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Who argues that Christians owed no allegiance to the Jewish God & Jesus was only spirt

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Marcion

39
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What events did the great debate create

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1st version of New Testament

Great division of Catholic & marcionite church’s & persecution of gnostic followers

40
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What religion began to threaten the already crumbling Roman Empire in 3rd century

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Christianity

41
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Who saw the danger of the growing religion & what did he do

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Empower Constantine and in 313 CE made the edict if Milan

42
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What is the edict of Milan

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Basically legalized Christianity throughout the empire

43
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What is the myth of Constantine’s decision to make Christianity legal

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Most his soldiers where Christian who fought at the battle of Milvan bridge

44
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After the victory what did Constantine order the Christians to do

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Hold their services on Sunday and honor the birth of Christ on December 25

45
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By 324 what did Constantine order after being tired of the disagreement of cannon and worship

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All leading church officials to meet in the concuil of Nicea and establish one center all belief system

46
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Who did Constantine aurthozied to develop a text that would represent the central history of the New Testament

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Bishop Euseunius of Caesaria

47
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What was Euseubius deeply concerned within the text

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Contradictions between church history and gnostic traditions

48
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Fear contradictions what would did Eusebius do

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Used various texts to construct his work ecclesiastical history destroy many of the original gnostic concepts

49
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Euseubius began a series of revisions to the Origen version of Christian cannon in Greek and eventually became what

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The cannon for all of the eastern churches but still contain non contradicting gnostic passages

50
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When did the first western version of New Testament text accrue

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382 CE

51
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Who where giving the job to revise the compilations of Euseubius New Testament to Latin

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Bishop of Rome and Jerome of Dalmatia given by Damascus

52
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What would become the standard version for all translators that followed

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The Latin version with all elements of Gnosticism removed

53
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What version is know as vulgate

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The Latin version

aka the western version of canonic text until the 16th century