Theological Knowledge N.t. Wright

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What are Josephus' dates?

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37-100

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What were Josephus' two most important works?

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Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish War

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When was the first Jewish-Roman War?

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66-70

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Were Jews interested in debates concerning Synergism and Sanctification, and how to get to heaven in the first century?

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Generally not, though there was some Jews who speculated on things like human action and divine agency, but generally people were focused on Israel's God acting in history to do what he promised and make the world right.

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What was Jewish attitudes towards the afterlife?

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Some believed in it, some didn't, some believed in a disembodied afterlife as well, however the afterlife was not the primary concern of 1Century Judaism

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The beliefs of first century Judaism were so varied according to our sources that some prefer to speak of?

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First century Judaisms

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When do many modern scholars think the book of Daniel was written or at least edited?

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Second century b.c.

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What prophecy does Jeremiah give the Jews concerning their exile?

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That it will last 70 years

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What is Daniel 9 about?

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A lament for the devastation of Jerusalem and Judah and a deep confession of sin and guilt that deserved the punishment and a request that the 70 years of punishment would be over.

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What did the angel Gabriel tell Daniel about the 70 year prophecy for the time in exile?

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That it was seventy weeks of years. SO thus 490 years.

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Who said that Daniel was popular reading material in the first century

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Josephus

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What was Josephus' impression of the use of the book of Daniel in the first century?

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It was popular

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How did the people read daniel in the first century?

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Not as devotional reading (though certainly devout Jews shared in the prayer of Daniel 9) but it was read politically

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When was the period of exile that Daniel claims will take 490 years be over according to Jewish calculations?

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Some thought between the two eras, others middle of the first century, others in the second.

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According to Josephus, what incited the Jews to war more than anything in the mid first century was what?

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An ambiguous oracle in the scriptures that said that one of them would rule the world (Daniel 9)

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What was the paradigm that many first century Jews found themselves in?

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They were not in the paradigm of "all humans are sinful and deserve hell, maybe God will be gracious" rather they thought of themselves as living in a continuing narrative from earliest times, moving towards a climactic moment of deliverance which might come at any moment

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On the basis of Daniel 9, what was the state of exile after the Jews returned to the holy land?

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They were in a continuing state of "exile"

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Why does N.T. Wright think that the Jews continued in "exile" even after they returned to their land and even rebuilt the temple?

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Because the Gentiles still were lording over them with Dominion, and there was know clear reference to God returning to his temple, as we see in the vision of Ezekiel.

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What does Ezra say in terms of continued exile?

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Here we are...slaves to this day, slaves in the land you gave to our ancestors.

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What was the result of the disobedience according to the covenantal curses of Deuteronomy 27-29

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Desertion and exile

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According to the covenant in Deuteronomy what would make the first century Jews feel as though they were still in exile?

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As the curse of Deuteronomy says that they would be given over to foreign powers and loose their autonomy, thus they still existed in this state under the romans, and would still feel like they were in exile

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What is one large divergence between the new perspective of Wright and that of Sanders and Dunn?

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Sanders and Dunn reject Wrights idea of Israel's continuing exile.

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What does Daniel say about how Israel faired in holding to the covenant that was given to Moses?

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That they failed miserably and that God was correct and righteous to send them into exile.

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God's mercy and righteousness is based upon what in Daniel 9

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His righteous acts.

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What does John Piper believe God's righteousness is?

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God's concern for God's own glory

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Generally among scholars what does dikaiosyne (and its cognate Hebrew) mean?

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"conformity with a norm"

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Is the righteousness of the acquitted defendant, or the vindicated plaintiff, the same as the the judge?

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No

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How does a judge make someone righteous?

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He creates the status the vindicated defendant now possesses, by an act of declaration, a "speech-act"