Jewish diaspora Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

REL 100 Question and answers verified to passREL 100 The term "BCE" corresponds to this Christian dating system: - correct answer BC (before Christ) This term refers to a religion that believes in only one God. - correct answer Monotheism This is the name of God in the Hebrew bible: - correct answer Yahweh Judaism traces itself back to this legendary patriarch who is written about in the book - correct answer Abraham In the story of Adam and Eve, God punishes them beca...

Sanhedrin - Jewsih ruling council Herod's - Jewish rulers, clients of Rome Herod the Great - ruled over Israel at time of Jesus' birth Procurators - Roman governors Ponitus Pilate - governor resposible for Jesus' crucifixion Temple is destroyed for a second time in - 70 BCE Pharisees - meticulous rules, kept written/"oral" law Sadducees - highest priest/chief, accepted only written Torah, controlled Temple/Sanhedrin Essenes - believed doctrine of resurrection, final judgement, await...

How was Judaism changing during the Greek and Roman period, and why? correct answer: shift from tradition focused on temple sacrifice to tradition focused on study of Torah bc of Greek philosophy and destruction of temple What is the Jewish "diaspora," and how did Greek culture and the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem contribute to dispersion? correct answer: dispersion of Jews into enclaves in other cultures pressure to give up traditions, changed focus to Torah, didn't need to be...

AP World History Final Exam 2 ( Latest ) (ACTUAL EXAM ) With 100% Verified Answers 1. Berlin Conference () Answer: The meeting of European imperialist powers todivide Africa among themselves 2. OpiumWar Answer: War between Britain and the Qing Empire that was, in the Britishview, occasioned by the Qing government's refusal to permit the importation of opium into its territories; the victorious British imposed the one-sided Treaty of Nanking on China. 3. India (colony) Answer: ...

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 a...

____________ is a continuation of Luke. - Answer-The Acts of the Apostles What was the earliest gospel written? - Answer-Mark What was the most recently written gospel? - Answer-John True or False: Acts deals with the rise and growth of the early church. - Answer-True What types of literature are included in the NT? Can you outline the major sections of the NT? - AnswerLiterature: 27 books, 21 letters (history, letters, prophecies) Sections: 4 Gospels, The Acts of the Apostles, Letters, The...

principle of third-generation interest correct answers Marcus Hansen's contention that ethnic interest and awareness increase in the third generation, among the grandchildren of immigrants Ethnic Paradox correct answers maintenance of one's ethnic ties in a manner that can assist with some assimilation within a larger society Ex.) Health measures, educational attainment, lower incidence of behavioral problems Symbolic Ethnicity correct answers Sociologist Herbert Gans's term that descr...

Ophir Judaism & Israel Class Final Exam | with 122 latest questions and answers Most Jews were living in _____________ at the time of the destruction of 70 C.E - the land of Israel Persecution in Spain, Inquisition - The term marranos/conversos/crypto-Jew comes from this period. They would torture confessions of "fake conversion" out of the Jews who had converted to Christianity. (1478) Pogrom - From medieval Russia- a violent riot aimed at the massacre or persecution of Jews. I...

Prophetic Orientation correct answer: Encountering holy power through moralistic rules. Tanakh correct answer: The Hebrew name for the Hebrew Bible. Kabbalah correct answer: Jewish Mystical movement based on the idea that everything (letters, numbers, words, even accents) in the scriptures contains mysteries that can be interpreted by those who know code. The Torah correct answer: Hebrew name for the first five books of the bible, also called the Pentateuch. Talmud correct answer...

Am ha-Aretz - CORRECT ANS Hebrew term meaning "people of the land" and referring to the common, uneducated masses, who were looked down on by the upper levels of society. They are probably referred to in John 7:49. The Greek equivalent is hoi polloi. apocalyptic - CORRECT ANS Term describing both a theological movement and its literature. It postulates the increase of evil in the world, the near end of the age, and the decisive intervention of God to inaugurate the age to come. Bo...