New Testament

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any doctrine concerning the end of the temporal world

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apocalypticism

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The branch of theology that is concerned with the end of the world or of humankind

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eschatology

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The act of rising from the dead or returning to life

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resurrection

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the first of the great Biblical patriarchs, father of Isaac, and traditional founder of the ancient Hebrew nation

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Abraham

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group of schools(thoughts, study)

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Pharisees

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priest(headlong in Judiasm

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Sadducees

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people with apocalyptic views, produced the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Essenes

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jewish establishment destroyed in 1st centruy

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Temple

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jewish house of worship

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synagogue

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explaination for one's belief or practices

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apology

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place near dead sea, where the dead sea scrolls discovered in 1946

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Qumran

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a group of Galilean Jews who fled to Jerusalem during the uprising against Rome in 66-70 CE.

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Zealots

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"presence" or "coming" used as a technical term to refer to the second coming of jesus in judgment at the end of time

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Parousia

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an agreement or treaty between two social or political parties that have come to terms; used by anicent jews in reference to the pact that god made to protect and preserve them in exchange for devotion to his laws

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covenant

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ancient jewish writings discovered in several caves near the dead sea. widely used by the apoclyptic essenes

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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understood sin to be a cosmic force that enslaved people; salvation came by participating in christ's death through baptism

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Participationist Model

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salvation is comparable to a legal decision, in which God, who is both lawmaker and judge, treats humans as "not guilty" for committing acts of transgression against his law, his death has been accepted as a payment

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Judicial model

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a group of ancient heresies, stressing escape from this world through the acquisition of esoteric knowledge

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Gnosticism

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the doctrine that there are two independent divine beings or eternal principles, one good and the other evil.

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dualism

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that a person is "made right" with god by trusting in the effects of Christs death, rather than by doing the works prescribed by the Jewish law

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justification

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understood by the highly eduacted upper classes as an excessive fear of the gods that drove a person to be excessively scrupulous in trying to avoid their displeasure

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superstition

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all of the lands conquered by Rome and ruled,

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Roman Empire

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the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, so named because of a tradition that seventy jewish scholars had produced it

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Septuagint

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jewish apocalyptic prophet who predicted the parting or the Jordan Riverand, evidently the reconquest of the Promised Land by the chosen people

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Theudus

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"daggermen" a designation for a group of first-century jews responible for the assassination of jewish aristocrats thought to have collaborated w/ the Romans

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Sicarii

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a Christian festival celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the apostles

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Pentecost

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bearing a false or fictitious name

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pseudonymous

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the view that Jesus was not a human being but only appeared to be, from a greek word meaning "to seem" or "to appear"

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docetism

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adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.

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integrity

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everything in a chapter written by the same person

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integrity

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one of the apostolic letters in the New Testament.

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epistle

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incomprehensible speech in an imaginary language, sometimes occurring in a trance state, an episode of religious ecstasy, or schizophrenia.

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glossolalia

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a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief

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martyr

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one who is commissioned to perform a task. designate special emissaries of the faith who were understood to be representatives of christ

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Apostle

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Jewish general and historian who took part in the Jewish revolt against the Romans

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Flavius Josephus

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Roman historian whose major work, Lives of the Caesars, is an account of the lives of the first 12 Roman emperors.

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Suetonius

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Roman public official and historian whose two greatest works, Histories and Annals, concern the period from the death of Augustus (A.D. 14) to the death of Domitian

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Tacitus

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Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113)

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Pliny the Younger

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famous jewish religious leader live in Jerusalem during King Herod

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Hillel

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king of jews, appointed by Rome

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Herod the Great

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son of herod the great, wanted to be king and killed many people, crazy man

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Herod Antipas

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the immoralities or supposed crimes that early Christians were persecuted for

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flagitia

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wife of Abraham, couldn't have children so she let her slave HAgar mate with Abraham

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sarah

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she was the slave of Sarah and sarah let her be with her husband Abraham to have childen becasuse she couldn't

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Hagar

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a jewish apocalyptic prophet of the first century CE who predicted the destruction of the walls of jerusalem mentioned by Josephus

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the egyptian

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split christianity from judaism, didnt have to be one to follow a certain way,, circumcision and kosher neither necessary, dont eat blood of the animals

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Jerusalem Council

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gentiles that adopted the Jewish faith with their code of morality and attended synagogue services, but who were not full converts and didnt want to submit to circumcision

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god-fearers

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used to determine if information is historical

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criteria of Authenticity

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need to find in 2 independent source for it to be historical

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Independent Attestation

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if saying or vent is strange, but still in gospel material, historical

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criterion of dissimilarity

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must fit into a 1st century Palestinian context in order for it to be regarded as authentic

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criterion of contextual credibility