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Which of the following made up the Jewish liturgical calendar, giving the year a rhythm and sense of sacredness?

Which of the following dates reflect the emerging consensus regarding the acknowledged writings that will become the NT?

One of the phrases direct at Christians was odium humani generis, which means:

Celebration of the foundational event in the story of Israel - deliverance from Egyptian bondage.

Special spaces or things that have been "set apart" from the ordinary as belonging in some special way to God.

Sacrifice offered in Jerusalem on behalf of the emperor rather than to the emperor sign of the nation goodwill y loyalty

Which of the following are ways that Pontius Pilate affronted Jewish sensibilities?

The Jewish New Year.

The best credit rating one could have in the ancient world was a reputation for knowing how to show ________.

Which of the following reflect the meaning of pistis, "faith," in the patron-client relationship?

The ancient household tended to be a ________ unit.

Israel's purity codes gave form and boundaries to Israel's ________.

Churches are to act, in essence, as collectives of ________ who share all things in common.

The process by which Greek culture encounters and penetrates indigenous cultures is known as _________.

What range of deviancy-control tactics techniques did both Jews and Gentiles use against Christians?

Which of the following characterized the Pharisees?

Which of the following characterized Platonism?

Which of the following was not considered a criterion for the canonicity of the New Testament writings?

Which of the following functions or activities characterized the synagogue?

In 167 BCE Jews in Jerusalem were forbidden to:

Something that has crossed the line from the normal state into a dangerous state of pollution.

Since the majority of the people found themselves in need, patrons might be asked to provide (select all that apply):

Which of the following are examples of questions that Gentile converts to Christianity might ask?

A condition that betrays the lack of wholeness of a person or creature

Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai.

During the period after the return from exile _______ was the head of Israel.

Whch group ocupied the uper levels of th aristcracy concrning thmselves mainly wth influencing the Jewish ruling classes

Which dynasty was hailed as the family that restored Rome after its near-fatal wound?

Nothing seems to drive New Testament ethics quite so much as ______ topics.

The Stoic way of life sought to attain:

Which of the following represent strategies that Hellenistic Jews believed were means by which they would attain hope

Made Christians scapegoats for the fire in Rome.

Which groups embody the belief that loyalty to the covenant was path to Israel's prosperity y security undr God's favor?

Herod's most celebrated achievements were:

For Stoics, it was a form of slavery to be concerned with:

Which group sectarian living in the desert y striving to live a "perfection of way," y producing the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Forced relocation of the Jewish population that accompanied the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests is known as the:

Something that is beyond the sphere of the ordinary; whole, complete, perfect.

Because the gods were revered as the ultimate patrons, priests acts as _______ .

While some Jews returned to their homeland, many more chose to remain in the land of their "exile."

With regard to the New Testament, each text was written to serve some specific __________ needs.

All of the Essenes withdrew into a sort of proto-monastery.

Which of the following reflect the source of one's honor in the ancient world.

Personal liberation and reunion with the divine was the goal of what group?

By cultre DeSilva means ______ shared by members of a group or region tht provde a framwork for meaningful comunication.

In ancient world which following traits and behaviors wre expcted to charcterize the behvior of kin toward one another

Which of the following characterized the Cynics (select as many as apply)?

Poets lauded Augustus as the bringer of:

In the ancient world, most children tended to be educated in:

Which of the following isn't included in deSilva's list of questions y challenges that would confront the early Christia

Which of the following apply to the Samaritans?

Ordinary spaces and things of the world that are accessible to human beings.

What came to stand at the center not only of Jewish unity but of Jewish disunity as well?

Who or what was worshipped alongside the emperor as Roma Aeterna?

Torah does not merely lay out purity laws and purification regulations, it also explain their:

When the priest entered the holy of holies to offer the blood for the sin offering.

The Judaism with which we are familiar today is a Judaism without:

In the Greco-Roman world, religious activity and moral education were tightly intertwined.

In modern day America, purity codes tend to focus on keeping things in:

Which of the following were taught by Epicurus?

Which OT prophet spoke of God establishing a new covenant unlike the old covenant made at Sinai?

Celebrates the reconsecration of the temple and its altar (after it had been desecrated by Antiochus IV).

The Septuagint was likely produced because Jews living in _____ required their scriptures to be available in Greek.

For each writing, match it with the appropriate description of either "apologetic" or "anti-Gentile."

Which of the following are characters or groups that populate the narratives of all four Gospels and Acts?

In Greco-Roman society, to deny the gods was to:

Which of the following helped Diaspora Jews preserve their distinctive identity and way of life?

For each writing, match it with the appropriate description of either "apologetic" or "anti-Gentile."

What kinds of pollutions would cause the Holy Land to "vomit forth" its inhabitant?

What event had a devastating impact on the Jewish people, posing a formidable challenge to their religion?

As the proper response of gratitude toward a patron, one should offer ________ to the patron (select as many as apply).

Jewish Christian y Gentile philosophers y ethicists sought to foster a benevolent relationship between masters y slaves.

Early Christian leaders simply threw off purity codes and pollution taboos.

A rowdy festival that celebrates the deliverance of the Jews through Esther and Mordecai.

What part of ancestral Israel does DeSilva note was home to many Gentiles, including a noted Stoic philosopher?

Look beyond th visible world to give bhind-scenes perspective on the realities encountered y experienced by the audience

Attempted to install a cult statue of himself in the Jerusalem temple.

undr Antiochus IV, rengade Jews pursued the Hellenization of Judea; mny in Jerusalem enthusiastically took part in Greek

The way of _____ was the way of devotion to the one God and the way of survival.

In Greco-Roman society, what kind of rituals showed a person's solidarity with the larger society

hope for political indepndence y restortion of Israel thrugh armd revolt took on somthing of a organzed shap wth th rise

What term refer to writing produced by Jews seek to mke sense of experiences y to discover how to remain faithful to God

Commemorated Israel's wandering in the wilderness.

Concerned with the proper ordering of the world and making sense of everyday experiences in light of that order.

God will be the ________ of all who seek and trust God's favor.

Under which emperor were Christians legally persecuted for the first time?

Judas and his brothers became the pattern the ________ messiah.

A priest, Mattathias renacted the zeal of _______ the grandson of Aaron, killing a Syrian official y the first Israelite

Expelled many Jews from Rome in 49 CE.

Referring generally to a person or thing in its normal, proper state.

Which of the following were inseparably linked in first century Judaism (select as many as apply).

What are some of the ways Gentiles responded to Jews (select as many as apply).

Which of the following observances reinforced Jewish identity and group boundaries?

Which of the following reflect the meaning of charis, "grace," in the social dynamics of the patron-client relationship.

The _________ was in a strong position to promote conformity to the group's core values.