Religion Final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Percentage of Palestine that farmed | 95% |
| Two Major Industries | Farming and Temple |
| Pharisees | rich people that believed in order to please God you need to follow the Torah. To follow the law, you need to be wealthy because you can't work on Sabbath. Were literate. |
| Kosher Laws | for the Pharisees, animal must be killed with little pain, blood must be drained from the animal |
| Rabbis | teachers that were slaves |
| Sadducees | priests who ran the temple; to follow God's law you needed to sacrifice in the temple |
| tithe | temple tax 10%, temple took up 1/4 of Jerusalem |
| Archetype | symbol that everyone understands |
| blood | life |
| wind | God |
| water | death |
| Theocracy | religious law bases the government |
| Sandhedrin | ruling body of first Century Palestine |
| Pompeius Magvs (Pompey the Great) | conquered the Romans under this leader Whenever Romans conquered a country, if the people did not surrender, they would be sold as slaves |
| Tax Collectors came to homes and arrested people if they did not pay them, would put them in jail until they gave the money | ... |
| Romans did not want any revolt against because it interfered with money. Allowed religious freedom. If someone revolted or did not pay taxes they would crucify them. | ... |
| deter | to prevent someone from doing something |
| Gubernator | Civilian governor |
| Proculator | military governor- Pontivis Polatvs |
| Romans built roads and had safety with soldiers- People learned to like the Romans | ... |
| Zealots | did not like the Romans; also known as "Socari"- dagger men |
| Vested Interest | The Romans let the Sanhedrin run the government if they collected taxes and kept order |
| Sanhedrin was crucified | revolt against the Romans |
| Titus 70 CE | began in Galilee, then Palestine, making all Jews slaves, then destroyed the temple |
| Siaspora | scattering of Jewish people when they left Israel |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | Scrolls in Aramaic found in the 40's written in Jesus' time, found near the Dead Sea in the Wilderness |
| Essenes | groups of Jewish monks who lived in moasteries in Qumran and believed the Saduccees were evil.To become an Essene, you need to be a man, study, and request a place in the community |
| Baptism | initiation to become an Essene |
| John the Baptist | came from the Wilderness, preached to gain new Essenes |
| Early Christians | Essenes through baptism |
| Essene Cosmology | account of the universe and everything in it |
| dichotomy | two opposing forces |
| light | forces of God/good |
| darkness | forces of Satan/evil |
| Children of Light | Follow God |
| Children of Darkness | Follow Satan |
| Eschatology | account of the end of the world |
| Essene Eschatology | there would be a battle between the children of light and dark and God will win, destryoing the children of darkness |
| When Titus reached Quram, the Essenes thought that it was the eschatology | hid their writings in clay pots in caves- Romans killed them |
| Religion | what gives meaning to life |
| Organized religion | a group of people that believe the same thing gives meaning to their life |
| author | someone who originates an idea |
| conservative | to preserve, people who want to reserve the status quo |
| amanumensis | a scribe |
| papyrus | paper |
| Gut Spiel | Good News, The Gospels |
| Gott Spiel | God Story |
| Jesus' Birth | 4 BCE in April |
| Jesus' Death | around 30 CE |
| Canon | books in the New Testament |
| Order of Gospel Writers | Mark, Matthew, Luke, John |
| Period of Oral tradition | 30 CE - 65 CE ; Stories of Jesus were carried down by word of mouth |
| Ellision | leaving details out |
| Accretion | adding details |
| hyperbole | exaggeration |
| Quelle | the source |
| Synoptic Gospels | Mark, Matthew, Luke ; telling the story in chronological order |
| Johanine | Gospel of John; not in chronological order, just a collection of stories about Jesus |
| The Gospels were compiled when people who traveled to different towns; told people stories of Jesus; When the story tellers would die, the people of the times bartered with each other and exchanged stories about what the story teller told them | ... |
| Mythology | the way we learn about abstract knowledge; the language of abstracts |
| Empirical Knowledge | provable |
| Abstract Knowledge | not provable |
| All religions contain mythology because they all contain God, an abstract idea | ... |
| Moses | only child not killed along with jesus, they both escape to Egypt- New Moses and will give the new law |
| Incarnation | in the meat/flesh ; Christian concept that Jesus was a human being through God becoming human |
| Angels | messengers for God |
| (According to Luke) Jesus' birth place | Born in Bethlehem (City of David |
| Jesus | the New King David, comes to establish God's new kingdom |
| Christ (Christos) | the anointed one; people were anointed with oil |
| oil | middle east; golden like the sun (the sun is the source of all power on the planet), energy of the sun transformed into plant and animal matter; symbol of God's power coming from Heaven |
| Olive Oil | people have oil poured ontop of their head to be anointed |
| Symbolic rebirth | Baptism is a... |
| Repent | turn around and look at life in a different way |
| Sin (hemartia) | not doing what you know is right |
| Numerology | study of the meaning of number |
| Number 1 | Indivisible and shows unity number |
| Number 2 | Disunity, Satan's number |
| Number 3 | Prime magic number |
| Number 4 | double evil number |
| Number 5 | magic number |
| Number 6 | triple three; good or bad number |
| Number 7 | Magic number |
| Number 8 | Very bad number |
| Number 9 | Three three's- very good |
| Simple Comparison | details are not symbolic |
| allegory | story where each details takes on a symbolic meaning |
| miracles | make you believe in something you didn't believe before |
| When Jesus died, everyone got to live | 1. Sanhedrin wants Jesus dead so that the Romans won't kill them and revolt 2. The Romans want Jesus dead because he told people not to pay their taxed and because he called himself the king |
| Mary Magdalin | believed he could be Jesus' wife |
| Parables | Jesus explaining God's will |
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