Sadducees

Olam Ha-Ba: The World to Come The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief review of the article Olam Ha-Ba: The Afterlife written by Tracey Rich. It is true the Jewish people do believe the death of the physical body or human existence is not the end, but there is little dogma written on it. This leaves room for various interpretations of what happens after physical death. The Orthodox Jew may believe in a Heaven similar to the Christian belief. Other Jews may believe they may be resurrected…

Alike the Sadducees, historical data on this Jewish sect was vague, incomplete and perhaps thought to be destroyed until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is from the Dead Sea Scrolls that their existence was made available. The Essenes were a semi-monastic and separatist community, and they would have been the recorders and preservers of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Essenes lived ascetic lives. They denied themselves the pleasures and luxuries of the world system. They lived alone in…

1. What does this passage tell us about the sacrament of Baptism? This passage tells us that Baptism is a sign of welcoming one into the Catholic Church/ family. The passage also tells us that baptism is not just a sacrament, it is a celebration of the Catholic family, as in the passage it explained that people came for varies of places to see Jesus and to become Catholic/ baptised as well. 2. What is the meaning of Baptism? Baptism is the Catholic Church’s way of celebrating God’s unearned…

For this question, I have picked the gospel of John. The book of John was written by Apostle John meaning “Yahweh has been gracious.” John was the youngest of Jesus’ apostles. The gospel of John was written around 80- 90A.D in the city of Ephesus. Ephesus by that time was the center of commerce and culture. The majority of John’s audience was no longer Jewish converts but rather people who lived in a world dominated by culture and thoughts of Greece and Rome. Apostle John sought to appeal to…

The major Jewish sects came to believe that Messianic Judaism is a Christian movement that cover itself in Jewish clothing. Messianic Jews, meanwhile, sees the actions of the Jews, especially in Israel, as comparable to what the Pharisees and the Sadducees had done to the Messianic Jews before the destruction of the temple. However, as of today, Messianic Jews numbers varies widely from low estimates of 40,000-50,000 believers to as many as 350,000 believers…

The beginning of Jewish history traced to the start of Bible. Bible long time ago was oral and then turned into text. Adam and Eva ate the apple and they knew the shame. God punished Eva to let her experiences the pain of having baby through the ten months pregnant and Adam to get food by let him working in the field. Eva born children and their children married and also born children. Then the family multiplied. Noah, one of the Adam and Eva’s offspring, had a son called Abram. He was chosen by…

This religious study will define the betrayal of Flavius Josephus in the First Jewish-Roman War and the haphazard application of the Jewish messianic tradition in regards to the victory of Vespasian over the Zealots. Josephus was a leader of the zealots during the early stages of the First Jewish Roman War, yet he was defeated and taken prisoner by the Romans at the city of Jotapata. The writings of Josephus reflect the haphazard application of the Jewish messianic tradition when he foretells…

“The history of the movement that emerged out of his life and teachings I usually studied separately in the field of Church History, which is also well-developed and sophisticated (Lynch pg.1)”. Reza Aslan was the author of No god but God, but wrote another book called Zealot: The Life And Times Of Jesus Of Nazareth. The book became number one New York Times bestseller. Reza Aslan wanted to examine one of history’s most influential person through an ear of the first-century Palestine. Many…

How can we explain Matthew’s hate of speech against Sadducees? Can we say Matthew came off as an anti-Semitic? Surely, his idea of Jesus as the authoritative interpreter of the Torah is taken so far as to make Jesus` teaching the measure by which the Torah is judged, and not the other way around. It seems like…

his teachings grew in popularity, surely, some of the Romans would have caught on to these messianic claims (Aslan, 123-124). This probably was not the only reason that Yeshua was crucified, as there is also the debate of the involvement of the Sadducees. However, it is conceivable to believe that some of his words and actions significantly contributed to the Roman establishment seeing him as a grave…