| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Jesus | Religious leader and founder of Christianity |
| Judea | province where Jesus was born, the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is known as Israel. |
| Rome | empire ruling at the open of the new testament |
| pharisees | legalists that make people follow Moses's law, so concerned w/ letter of law, forget meaning |
| sadducees | sect of Jews in Judea consisting of priests and wealthy business people; conservatives |
| essenes | People who gave up the goods in life and moved out of the community to worship God and to praise him. For example, John the Baptist. |
| zealots | Jews that rose up in armed rebellion against Rome in 66ce; unsuccessful, and Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed |
| client kingdom | Judea was one. under control of Romans but allowed to have their own emperor |
| king herod | He built the great Jerusalem temple. He also killed the little boys in Bethlehem when he was trying to kill the new king of the Jews (Jesus). |
| galilee | The place in Israel where Jesus grew up, nothern israel |
| gospels | part of the Bible containing stories of Jesus, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John |
| disciples | 12 followers of Jesus |
| sermon on the mount | the first major discourse delivered by Jesus, how to get into heaven |
| jesus' message | everyone can be saved and brought to heaven |
| the messiah | a person that would be born and save god's people |
| parables | simple stories that contain the message or truth |
| baptism | a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth |
| crucifixion | sentence to death where you are nailed to a cross hanging on a wall, and are left to die my thirst or starvation. |
| resurrection | A return from death to life |
| ascension | to rise up |
| holy trinity | god the father, jesus the son, the holy spirt |
| sacraments | the sacred rituals of the Church |
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