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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Daimonia | category of divine beings in the Greco-Roman world widely thought to be less powerful than the gods but far more powerful than humans and capable of influencing human lives |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | ancient Jewish documents from the period of Christian origins, found near the Dead Sea, Decalogue or Ten Commandments: the name given the ten words Moses received, according to tradition, from God on Mt. Sinai |
| Demeter | the Greek and Roman goddess of grain, worshipped in a prominent mystery cult in Eleusis, Greece |
| Deutero-Pauline Epistles | the letter Ephesians, Colossians, and 2 Thessalonians, which some claim have a "secondary" (Deutero) standing in the Pauline corpus |
| diaspora or dispersion | the Jewish community scattered (dispersed) outside the holy land of Palestine. This dispersion originated in the Babylonian exile of 587 B.C. |
| Didache | "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles": an anonymous second-century Christian manual for church life |
| disciple | a follower, one who is "taught" (as opposed to an apostle, one who is "sent" as an emissary) |
| divination | any practice used to ascertain the will of the gods |
| Docetism | "to seem": an early Christian heresy in which Jesus only seemed to suffer and die |
| Ebionites | a group of second-century Adoptionists who maintained Jewish practices and Jewish forms of worship |
| epistle | a letter of a formal or didactic nature; the term is traditionally applied to the New Testament letters |
| Eschatology | discourse about last things |
| Essenes | an ascetic, a Jewish religious group existing at the time of the New Testament, they stressed radical obedience to the Jewish law |
| ethics | moral codes and practices, theories of value, and the imperatives of Christian faith as they pertain to relations of one person to another |
| Eucharist | derived from the Greek word meaning "thankfulness" and used of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper |
| exegesis | the critical interpretation of a text, literally the term means "to lead out" the meaning from the text |
| expiation | "making right", by means of some act or rite, the offense done by one party to another, especially expiation for sin before God |
| form criticism | the classification of the "forms" in which the tradition, especially the Gospel tradition, circulated before being written down |
| Gamaliel | a famous rabbi of first-century C.E. Judaism |
| Gematria | Jewish method of interpreting a word on the basis of the numerical value of its letters |
| genre | the literary type or form of a document |
| Gentile | a non-Jew |
| gnosticism | a religious movement or attitude widespread about the time of the emergence of the Christian faith, believers possessed a secret knowledge (gnosis) and sought to escape the ephemeral earthly world for the eternal heavenly world |
| Gospel | originally the message of good news that GOd has revealed himself as gracious in the event of Jesus Christ, also literary form in which the good news of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection is narrated |
| Greco-Roman world | the lands (and culture) around the Mediterranean from the time of Alexander the Great to the Emperor Constantine, roughly 300 B.C.E. to 300 C.E. |
| Haggadah | a Hebrew term designating rabbinic traditions, usually in narrative form that illustrate the moral teaching of the Torah |
| Halakah | a Hebrew term meaning "to walk", designating rabbinic tradition regulating conduct |
| Hasmonean | the actual family name for the Maccabees, leaders of the Jewish revolt against Syria |
| Hellenization | the process or result of the spread of Greek language and culture in the Mediterranean |
| hermeneutics | the science dealing with the interpretation and the determination of the meaning of texts |
| heresy | any worldview or set of beliefs deemed by those in power to be deviant, from a Greek word meaning "choice" |
| High Priest | prior to 70 C.E. the highest-rankingathority in Judaism in charge of the operation of the Jerusalem Temple and its priests |
| historiography | the literary reconstruction of historical events; the writing of history; and the study and analysis of historical narrative |
| historical criticism | method that approaches the Bible with historical questions, its goal is to understand the historical setting of the Bible |
| holy | that which has to do with, is set apart for, God or the divine power and majesty |
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