How to read Aland handout

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Study Questions: Jewish Sects in the time of Jesus; Apocalypticism

1.Compare and Contrast Pharisees, Saducees, and Essenes in respect to the following:

1) Belief in afterlife/bodily resurrection

2) Attitude to oral law

3) Attitude to Jerusalem Temple

2.Explain: “Happy People Do Not Write Apocalypses” (Fredriksen, 81)

3.Be able to discuss Ehrman’s points in the following quote:

“Jesus was a Jewish man living in the first century of the Common Era in the Roman territory of Galilee. If we want to know about his life, we have to learn about his world….”[social and political context of first century Palestine] “ is more relevant for understanding the historical Jesus than for understanding the traditions that circulated about him in other parts of the Mediterranean some decades later.”

4.Question: Prophecy vs. Apocalypticism. Discuss differences in style, content, and world view. Give dates (by century) for each type of revelation; Give at least one extant example by name of each type.

5.Describe socio/political conditions that led to rise of sectarianism in the centuries from the 1^st c. BCE through 1^st c. CE.(end date was 70 CE). Describe basic characteristics of Pharisees, Saducees, Essenes, Fourth Philosophy (=zealots, and sicarii) Galillean Charismatics

6.Identify:

Zadok/Zadokite line

apocalypticism

Roman Rule, Question 2 - Shay Bell

2.Explain the Roman witticism “Better to be Herod’s pig than his son.”

Herod killed many his family members, including his son(s), because of their Hasmonean lineage. The quote is meant to be funny, because he follows the Jewish law that forbids him to eat pigs.

Roman Rule Study Questions

Questions on assignment:

1. What, if anything, do we know of Herod the Great’s alleged slaughter of Judean babies as told in Matt 2: 13-23? What is the argument against the historicity of this event?

2.Explain the Roman witticism “Better to be Herod’s pig than his son.”

3.How do most historians evaluate (pros and cons) the reign of Herod?

4.How can we explain the fact that at the end of the Great Rebellion against Rome in 70 CE only two Jewish sectarian movements survived (through the present): the Pharisees (founders of what came to be called ‘Rabbinic Judaism”) and the followers of Jesus (founders of what came to be called Christianity)?

Another Question!

How can we find out why each of the books in the Apocrypha were left out of the Bible? I'd like to know the specific reasons.

Question!

Can someone explain the terms/phrases "legal traditions of the Pharisees" and "rabbinic Judaism" to me? I feel like I don't know enough about either group to understand.

Study/Writing Questions: MACCABEES

1.Be able to identify the following terms. Identifications must include:

a)fact(s) with dates as appropriate

b)context-relate specific term to larger historical or religious context

c))significance of term to study of Judaism and/or early Christianity

Antiochus IV Hannukah Gymnasion Ben Sira/ Ecclesiasticus

Hasidim Hellenization

Mattathias Judah Maccabee

2. Describe how the issue of Hellenization played out in the genesis of the Maccabean revolt.

3. What explanation do historians offer for the success of the Maccabean revolt?

4. Identify and describe 5 significant innovations/developments in Jewish practice or thought, occurring during the Hasmonean period. Which of these would prove especially significant in the teachings of Jeus accd. to the Synoptic Gospels?

5. 2 Maccabees 7 contains what maybe the earliest recorded story of martyrdom. Be able to recount the story and connect it to the new(pharisaic?) doctrine of resurrection.