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What is a historian's task?
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A historian evaluates sources and evidence from the past using profressionally agreed upon criteria to determine the trustworthiness of the source or evidence. Form this springboard the historian reconstructs the most probable explanation of a past event or life.
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What are the 6 criteria to determine the trustworthiness of a source?
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1. Multiple attestation-lots of sources that can be compared.
2. comes from a time near to event itself so that less Likely to be hearsay or legend. 3. Produced independently so authors not in collusion. 4. Do not contradict each other so that one or more not Necessarily in error. 5. Internally consistent. 6. Not biased so that authors have skewed their accounts To serve their own purposes. |
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What are the primary resources for the study of the historical Jesus and what difficulties to historians face in using these biographies?
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The four New Testament gospels. Because these are primarily faith documents, historians can not simply take them at face value. They judge the gospels by the historical criteria for evidence. Also as Greco-roman biographies, which focus on character rather than historical detail, historians must sort through which is literary device and what is historically documentable fact.
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What is the significance of the Hellenistic culture in the birth of Christianity?
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When Alexander the great conquered Palestine, he not only gained supremacy through the military but with his zealous passion for Hellenistic culture (a fusion of Hellenic and Persian culture). Through incentives such as tax breaks, building and educational programs he formed a common culture and language across the middle east. This common culture and language would later pave the way for the spread of the early church.
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Hos did Rome play a part in the development of Christianity?
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With the Pax Romana, Rome gave the empire political unity and safe travel, which made the spread of the Christian faith feasible. Beyond this, the development of the early church was influenced by the mystery religions and the philosophies of Plato and the stoics, which were Persian and Hellenic influnces "baptized" by Roman society.
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Who are the Seleucids?
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At Alexander the Great's untimely death, his three generals Antigonus, Ptolemy and Seleucid split the empire. Initially Antigonus, then shortly thereafter the Ptolomies ruled Palestine, but in 198 BCE the Selecuids gained power. The Seleucids were much more aggressive in enforcing Hellenistic culture on the Jewish nation. They sacrificed a swine in the temple and after the official priest fled to Egypt; they appointed his brother, Jason, as chief priest, outraging the pious priests and populous.
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What was the Macabbean revolt?
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A group of pious priests, who were led by the Maccabees, revolted against the attempts of the Seleucids Antiochus IV to Hellenize the Jerusalem temple worship. Eventually the three
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