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Bible NT unit 1
miller's NT class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Kaine Diatheke | is the New Covenant |
| neos | new similar |
| kainos | new different |
| Antiochus IV | called himself Epiphanes, demanded Hellenization, killed for keeping Jewish traditions, put up a statue of Zeus in the holy of hollies, & sacrificed pigs on the altars. |
| Epiphanes | vision of God |
| give examples of Jewish tradition that Antiochus IV killed people for | keeping the Sabbath & holidays, circumcising baby boys, & had scriptures. |
| Mattathias | refused to kill pig on the altar & killed a Jew who tried to |
| Judas Maccabeus | goes to Jerusalem & gets the temple back. |
| 164 BC | 1st Hanukkah & re-dedication of the temple |
| Hanukkah celebrates | the re-dedication of the temple |
| 4 | birth of Jesus |
| Augustus | emperor of Jesus' birth |
| Tiberius | emperor during Jesus' ministry |
| Nero | emperor during Paul's ministry & persecuted Christians |
| Vesapian & Titus | destroy Jerusalem in 70 |
| Domitian | emperor of book of Revelation & lead to worse persecution than Nero |
| Military Legions | approx. 6,000 soldiers & divided into cohort & it's divided into centuries about 25 emperor wide. |
| Auxiliaries | legions but they are noncitizens |
| Centurion | a leader of 100 soldiers like a Sergeant backbone of Roman military |
| Praetorian Guard | secret service & emperors body guard |
| Herod the Great | weaseled way to be king, murdered family members, sent soldiers to Bethlehem to slaughter infants & toddlers, most famous for his building constructions like the temple |
| Atipas | tries Jesus before the crucifixion & killed John the Baptist Son of Herod the Great |
| Agrippa I | grandson of Herod the Great & killed the 1st apostle to be martyred |
| who was the 1st apostle to be martyred | James |
| Order | social class & you don't change order that you were born in you rarely move up |
| Status | position within the order this can & usually does change |
| Honor | go up in status |
| Shame | go down in status |
| senatorial order | more like a social class 600 family limit must have 250,000 denarus or get kicked out they get high offices wore purple sashes over their togas |
| Equestrian Order | had a limit of 100,000 denarus no family limit could be more wealthier than senator more safe no worry over who will be next emperor |
| Populus Integer "respectable population" | normal everyday people with jobs & aren't wealthy 5-10% small clas example Paul |
| Plebeians "shabby people" | peasants, large class, example Jesus |
| Freedmen | former slave, found in almost every level of society, & keeps relations with his owner |
| how you can become a slave: | born into slave family be captured imprisonment sell yourself to relieve debt exposure: getting rid of unwanted baby |
| household | basic social unit included extended family & slaves, wealthy maybe 20-40, senators have 200-300 people in household |
| marriage in Greco-Roman meant | living together |
| girls married younger than guys what were the ages? Greco-Roman & Jews | Roman: 14 yr girl 25-35 yr guy Jews: 14 yr girl 18 yr guy |
| illegal adultry in Roman culture | was sex between a man & a married woman |
| Women in Greco-Roman were | looked down upon |
| women in Jewish culture were | highly valued & works really hard |
| Primary level of education | elementary school 7-11 yrs reading, writing, & maybe math |
| Secondary level of education | 11 yrs humanities (liberal arts) |
| Advanced level of education | done by age 20 in one of 4 categories: philosophy, medicine, law, thetoric |
| Schools were | private by a hired tutor |
| pederasty | sex between teacher & student. usually both males |
| Jewish education | was surrounded by Torah, girls didn't, centered in home & synagogues |
| Temple | divided in 4 areas were only Priests, Jewish men, Jewish women & Gentiles |
| Synagogue | means gathering for worship, education |
| Sanhedrin | a court conveyed by high priests & mechanism Rome chose to rule |
| Samaritans | claim true ancient Jews |
| Priests | are descendants of Levi divides the land into 24 groups & each groupvspent some time at synagogues |
| Ethics had | nothing to do with religion |
| Magic and Astrology | was hard to distinguish from mainstream religion and was hard to separate from medicine |
| Mystery Religions | have an afterlife, associated with gods who rose from the dead, Christianity was assumed to be one |
| Emperor Worship | Emperors declared divine after death until Domition who demanded worship, Jews refused to worship him so they paid more taxes and sacrificed for him |
| 4 characteristics of Greco-Roman philosophies | exclusive, sought and made converts, promoted a view of ethics, organized and hierarchical |
| Textual Criticism | A method for solving a problem |
| Because none of the NT manuscripts are identical, what's the primary goal of NT textual criticism? | Arriving at the original text of the NT documents |
| How did differences in manuscripts come about? | Misreading/hearing/seeing/copying, harmonizing-making things more similar than they are, improving, correcting errors, adding details |
| How do scholars sort out the differences in the manuscripts? | Look for the reading that explains all other readings, evaluate rather than simply count manuscripts |
| How long was it before the NT was written? | About 20 years- completely written in 65 years |
| Why did it take 65 years to complete the NT? | Jesus didn't write anything, Already had scripture, expecting the 2nd coming in their lifetime, still had eyewitnesses |
| What documents were written first? | Paul's letters |
| 4 ways they chose which documents would be canonized | Author-Apostolicity, Content (doctrine gave rise to scripture), Clout of the recipient, Spirit |
| Which NT books were disputed? | the last 3rd |
| What do we call the books that weren't included? | NT Apocrypha |
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