NBST 515-001 exam 2023/2024 with 100% correct answers

intertestamental period - correct answer about 400 BC to 1 AD 2nd temple period - correct answer 530 BC to 70AD Gnosticism - correct answer material word is evil and said Jesus could not have been a person - correct answer taught that pleasure (in the sense of happiness, not necessarily sensual pleasure) was the chief good in life. This led to an advocacy of "hedonism," the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle. Stoicism - correct answer taught the dutiful acceptance of one's fate—a form of fatalism—as determined by impersonal reason ruling the universe. People were enjoined to face their destiny "stoically," that is, without emotion. Cynicism - correct answer purpose of live is to live in virtue in agreement with nature ptatonism - correct answer the theory that numbers or other abstract objects are objective, timeless entities, independed of the physical world and of the symbols used to represent them syncretism - correct answer combining of different religions, cultures, or schools of thought emperor worship in Rome - correct answer roman cult, continuation of hellenistic worship of the ruler, Emperor worship provides especially important background to the book of Revelation Sanhedrin - correct answer Jewish court burnt offering - correct answer offered twice daily and completely consumed by fire peace offering - correct answer an offering presented as a thanks giving to God sin offering - correct answer could be fine flour or a proper animal Targum - correct answer an ancient Aramaic paraphrase or interpretation of the Hebrew Bible Mishnah - correct answer method of teaching by presenting topics in a systematic order Midrash - correct answer an ancient commentary on part of the Hebrew Scriptures, attached to the biblical text apocalyptic literature - correct answer A genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient apocalypticism - correct answer A pattern of thought or a world view dominated by the kinds of ideas and motifs found in apocalypses: other worlds (heaven, hell), otherworldly beings, supernatural intervention in world events, apocalyptic eschatology, divine retribution beyond death Diaspora - correct answer settling of the Jewish people outside of Palestine after the Babylonian exile Cyrus of Persia - correct answer let the Jews return home, let the temple be rebuilt, and prophecised in Isaiah