bib rev final
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| zerubbabel |  jewish leader who led the people home |
| zechariah | prophet who encouraged the people in rebuilding the temple |
| ezra | scribe-lawyer who helped lead a renewal of the people in judah through the preaching of the scriptures in the 460s |
| malachi | last main prophetic voice of the OT -- ca. 430s BC |
| mattathias hasmon | initial leader of the hasidim ("pious ones") who became freedom fighters against antiochus IV |
| judah/judas hasmon | son of mattathias who became great genearl and received nickname of maccabee b/c he became the "hammer" of the seleucids |
| simon hasmon | another son of mattathias who became a great political organizer and helped bring order to jerusalem after initial harmonean victories |
| john hyrcanus | son of simon hasmon who helped win final victories against the seleucids, even to the point of bringing hasmonean rule to all of palestine |
| cyrus | persian king who let the judah-ites go home from babylon |
| alexander | great conqueror of persians -- brought vision of "hellenism" |
| ptolemy | governor of egypt for alexander the great who started a dynastic rule out of egypt after alexander's death (ptolomies held palestine from late 300s BC to ca. 200 BC) |
| antiochus IV | seleucid leader who desecrated the jerusalem temple in 168 BC through sacrificing a pig there |
| pompey | roman general who won palestine for rome |
| julius caesar | roman leader who appointed herod the great "king of the jews" |
| herod the great | the "herod" at the time of jesus' birth -- idumean by background -- first of the "herod" family who served as client kings for rome |
| augustus | emperor at the time of jesus' birth |
| tiberius | emperor at the time of jesus' ministry |
| nero | emperor at the time of martyrdom of peter and paul |
| titus | general (and later emperor) who destroys the 2nd temple in 70 AD |
| domitian | emperor whose empire wide persecution probably serves as a backdrop |
| papias | bishop of hierapolis in 2nd c. AD who said that mark wrote his gospel based on peter's preaching |
| herodotus | greek history writer who helped set the history style in the greco-roman world |
| josephus | great 1st century jewish historian who wrote in the classic greco-roman style |
| theophilus | gentile patron of luke |
| herod antipas | member of the "herod" family ruling at time of jesus' public ministry |
| caiaphas | high priest at time of jesus' public ministry |
| irenaeus | bishop of lyons in 2nd c. AD who tells us about apostle john's ministry in asia minor |
| peter | leader of the 12 |
| stephen | first christian martyr |
| james | brother of apostle john -- 1st apostle to die for the faith -- put to death under herod agrippa I |
| cornelius | first "public" gentile convert to christian faith |
| barnabas | cousin of mark -- co-worker with paul on paul's first missionary journey |
| james | 1/2 brother of jesus -- leader of the jerusalem church at time of the jerusalem council |
| luke | companion of paul's to the very end -- meet him in colossians AND see he is with paul at the end of paul's life in II timothy |
| timothy | young protege of paul -- like mark is peter's young protege |
| apologia | defense -- apologetics -- in acts outline the possibility was given (we don't know if this is the case) that a purpose of acts might have been as a "defense brief" -- an apology -- for paul in his trial before caesar |
| apostolos | "sent one" -- used 2 ways in NT (for those A apostles who were part of the foundation of the church -- eph 2... for a apostles who served as missionaries) |
| agape | love in an "unconditional" way -- love to the undeserved |
| evangelion | "gospel" -- good news; our word gospel comes from old english "go'd spel" = a good message |
| kerygma | proclamation -- our 4 gospels are the kerygma in written form |
| martyria | witness (Acts 1) |
| genesis 3 | "seed of the woman" |
| genesis 12 | "through you [abraham] all the nations on earth will be blessed" |
| deuteronomy 18 | "another prophet like unto [moses]" |
| II samuel 7 | "a son of david on the throne of God forever" |
| isaiah 40 | "a voice calling in the wilderness" (J the B) |
| isaiah 53 | "the suffering servant" |
| daniel 7 | "one like a son of man" |
| joel 2 | "God says 'i will pour out my spirit' in the last days..." |
| amos 9 | (used at jerusalem council to show full inclusion of the gentiles w/o them having to become jewish) |
| malachi 3, 4 | (a "forerunner" will come in the spirit and power of "elijah" -- j the b) |
| sadducees | party of the temple; status quo |
| pharisees | party of the synagogue; oral law |
| zealots | military-oriented party; concerned with the land |
| essenes | party of separatists |
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