New Testament Quiz #2

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Agora

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a central spot in ancient Greek city-states. The literal meaning of the word is "Gathering place" or "Assembly". The agora was the center of athletic, artistic, spiritual and political life of the city

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Agraphon

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The term "Agraphon" - literally "unwritten thing", designates a saying or tradition about Christ not recorded in the Gospels or traceable to its original source.

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Allegory

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a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.

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Amanuenis

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one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript

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Antinomian

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one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation

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Apocalyptic

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of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy. 2. pertaining to the Apocalypse or biblical book of Revelation. 3. predicting or presaging imminent disaster and total or universal destruction:

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Autograph

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An original manuscript of work of art. Something signed to know who made/wrote it.

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Charisma

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A special magnetic charm or appeal

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Chaism

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Crux interpretum

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an essential or puzzling passage that requires a resolution and becomes a central point of an argument

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Diaspora

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a : the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile b : the area outside Palestine settled by Jews c : the Jews living outside Palestine or modern Israel

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Diatribe

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a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism: repeated diatribes against the senator.

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Didache

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the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles a treatise, perhaps of the 1st or early 2nd century ad , on Christian morality and practices

[C19: from Greek, literally: a teaching, from didaskein to teach]

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Docetism

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1. an early Christian doctrine that the sufferings of Christ were apparent and not real and that after the crucifixion he appeared in a spiritual body.
2. Roman Catholic Church . an ancient heresy asserting that Jesus lacked full humanity.

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Genre

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A category of writing (fiction, narrative, romance ect)

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Haggadah

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a book containing the liturgy for the Seder service on the Jewish festival of Passover.

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Halakhah

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"go" or "walk." Halakhah, then, is the "way" a Jew is directed to behave in every aspect of life, encompassing civil, criminal, and religious law.

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Hasidim

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the outward expression of love of God and other people

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Hasmoneans

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a member of a priestly family of Jewish rulers and leaders in Judea in the 1st and 2nd centuries b.c.

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Hellenism

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1ancient Greek culture or ideals.
2. the imitation or adoption of ancient Greek language, thought, customs, art, etc.: the Hellenism of Alexandrian Jews.
3. the characteristics of Greek culture.

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Household Code

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Judaizers

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to conform to the spirit, character, principles, or practices of Judaism.

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Kenosis

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the doctrine that Christ relinquished His divine attributes so as to experience human suffering.

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Kerygma

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the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”

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Midrash

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an early Jewish interpretation of or commentary on a Biblical text, clarifying or expounding a point of law or developing or illustrating a moral principle.

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Mishnah

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the collection of oral laws compiled about a.d. 200 by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and forming the basic part of the Talmud.

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Mystery

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Paraenesis

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1.Advice or exhortation, particularly of a moral or religious nature.
2.(rhetoric) A warning of impending evil.

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Pax Romana

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the terms of peace imposed by ancient Rome on its dominions.

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Proselyte

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a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.

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Sanhedrin

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Also called Great Sanhedrin. the highest council of the ancient Jews, consisting of 71 members, and exercising authority from about the 2nd century b.c.

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Second Temple Judaism

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refers to the religion of Judaism during the Second Temple period, between the construction of the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem in 515 BCE, and its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE

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Septuagint

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the oldest Greek version of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been translated by 70 or 72 Jewish scholars at the request of Ptolemy II:

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Synagogue

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a Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction.

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Syncretism

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the attempted reconciliation or union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy or religion.

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Talmud

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the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara and being either the edition produced in Palestine a.d. c400 or the larger, more important one produced in Babylonia a.d. c500.

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Targum

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a translation or paraphrase in Aramaic of a book or division of the Old Testament.

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Theologia Crucis

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the theological principle that our knowledge of the Being of God must be derived from the study of Christ in His humiliation and the suffering He underwent on the cross.

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Torah

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Hebrew name for the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. The Torah is the body of written Jewish laws contained within these five books.