General Nt Backgrounds Quiz

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721 B.C.

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Assyrian Exile of Israel

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587/586 B.C.

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Babylonian Exile of Judah

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336 B.C.

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Alexander becomes king of Macedon

& general of the Greeks

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330 B.C.

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Alexander assumes title "Great King" of Persian Empire.

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323 B.C.

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Alexander dies

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167 B.C.

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Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) orders the defiling of Jerusalem Temple

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63 B.C.

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Pompey takes Jerusalem, enters Holy of Holies, abolishment of Jewish monarchy

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37 - 4 B.C.

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Herod the Great rules Judaea

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6 - 41 A.D.

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Judaea a Roman province

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26-36 A.D.

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Pontius Pilate prefect of Judaea

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66 - 73 A.D.

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Revolt against Rome

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70 A.D.

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Fall of Jerusalem

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115-117 A.D.

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Revolt under Trajan (esp. in the diaspora)

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132 - 135 A.D.

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Bar-Kochba revolt under Hadrian

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c. 200 A.D.

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Mishnah compiled

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Slave

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1) captured in battle,

2) born into, or

3) sold yourself into in order to get out of debt, or advance your status.

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Freedperson

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No longer owned by master, but still has relational obligations to master.

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Free

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Born free from slavery.

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Citizenship

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Roman privileges: appeal to Roman courts, less cruel forms of punishment.

Outside of Rome, more of an honor than anything specific.

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Senators

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1) 250,000 denarii property qualification

2) Obtained by filling one of the principal magistracies of Rome

3) Prestige, birth, wealth, and education

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Equites

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1) 100,000 denarii property qualification

2) Political distinction from Senators was not always social or even economic

3) Those who did not want a political career

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Patricians

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Oldest nobility of Rome

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Plebians

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1) Citizens who did not belong to the senatorial or equestrian orders, or

2) Outside Rome - citizens who did not belong to the order of decurions.

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Patron-Client

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Patron is superior in status and wealth, and provides small gifts, assistance, services to the clients. Clients then "cheer-on" their Patron in public affairs.

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Stoics

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logos, focus on reason; "put anything off that would distract your from reason."

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Epicureans

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atoms, materialism, pleasure; not Hedonism, but pleasure in friendship.

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Cynics

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social critique; did various shocking things in an attempt to destabilize society (e.g., acting like dogs and defecating in public)

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House gods

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little deities within the home that people worshipped outside of the Pantheon

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Pantheon

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Zeus (Jupiter), Artemis, etc.

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Mystery Religions

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Secret socities that had specific rites

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Emperor Worship

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Less than divinity itself, more of a giving of divine honors. However, found expression in cultic exercises. Often, not the man himself worshiped but his imperial virtues.

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Sadducees

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Power elite, free will, reject resurrection and oral tradition.

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Pharisees

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Rabbinic teachers, standardized interpretation of torah, "compatabilist" views on sovereignty.

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Essenes

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Deterministic, monastic, Qumran

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"4th Philosophy"

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Overthrow Pagan rule, includes Zealots and Sicarii.

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Zealots

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Overthrow government by any means; part of the "4th Philosophy"

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Sicarii

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"dagger-men", assasins within the "4th Philosophy".

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Herodians

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Pro-Herodian kingly line

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Samaritans

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Descendants of the old Northern Kingdom of Israel; intermarried with Assyrians, and worship at temples outside of Jerusalem.

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Proselytes

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Gentile converts; follow the full Jewish religion.

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God-fearers

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Gentiles who sympathize with the Jewish religion.

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Cicero

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106-43 BC; A prolific author of speeches, books on oratory, philosophical treatises, letters, and also of poetry of which little has survived. Latin.

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Lucian

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c. 120 AD; probably from birth Aramaic-speaking, but learned Greek well enough to become an advocate and lecturer. Famous for his "Dialogues" in which he criticized many of the accepted ideas of his time. Greek.

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Pliny the Elder

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24-79 AD; born at Comum. Had a military career and then followed literary and legal pursuits. He was also a historian and biogrpaher, and author of the "Natural History", a compendium of 'facts, histories and observations', reading at times like a gazeteer. Commander of the fleet at Misenum in 79 - sailed too close to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and died from the fumes. Latin.

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Pliny the Younger

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c. 61-112 AD; nephew and adopted son of Pliny the Elder. He entered the senate and fulfilled a standard administrative course. His "letters" are his main contribution to literature and include the correspondence with Trajan about Christians when he was governor of Bithynia. Latin.

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Plutarch

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c. 50-120 AD; Industrious philosopher and biographer, he has left, especially in his "lives", much information about antiquity and its thought, including philosophical and religious. Greek.

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Seneca

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4 BC - 65 AD; was Nero's tutor and adviser, forced to commit suicide in 65. A philosopher, mainly Stoic, he wrote a number of books of an ethical character, as well as poems and tragedies. Latin.

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Strabo

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c. 64BC - 21AD; A Stoic and admirer of the Romans, wrote on history and geography and for his posterity is a storehouse of historical geography. Greek.

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Suetonius

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c. 69 AD; An advocate and historian. His works include the "Lives of the Caesars". Latin.

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Tacitus

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56-115 AD; Son-in-law of Agricola whose biography he wrote, and also a treatise on the Germans. His "Histories" covered AD 14-96 but only part survives...the "Annals" cover from AD 14 to Nero's death. He writes at length about the Jews. Latin.