Theology Test Set 3

Which would Jesus himself have spoken? Read? Heard around him?

• Spoke: Aramic

• Read: Hebrew

• Heard: Greek

Aramaic examples in the Bible 

• Abba

What language was the Sacred Scriptures read in in the Synagogue and Temple?

• Hebrew

What language was spoken by the Roman officials?

• Latin

• Where did Jewish worship? (Locally and nationally)

  • In Synagogue and Temple

• What happened in the Synagogue?  Where were they built?  Why?

  • House of prayer where scriptures were read, Yahweh was worshiped, and discussion for legal settlements.

  • Key part was careful reading of the Torah in Hebrew

  • found near rivers or springs so worshipers could purify themselves in running water

• What happened in the Temple?  Where was it built? 

  • Temple of Jerusalem

  • Temple was rededicated after the Maccabees came in to take it back from the Greeks

  • Special dwelling place for God

  • Sacrifice Rituals

  • Destroyed late 60s by Romans

• What were the 4 key feasts the Jews celebrated? 

  • Passover

    • Celebrate Exodus from Egypt In Jerusalem

    • Seder Meal

  • Pentecost (shavuot) 

    • Celebrate Law of Moses on Mount Sinai

    • time to renew commitments to the covenant with God

  • Tabernacles

    • Celebrate Jews in the wilderness

    • Built huts out of branches

  • Hanukkah

    • Feast of Dedication

    • Commemoration of the Temple rededication after it was profaned by the foreign ruler Anthiochus IV

• Political Climate of 1^st century Palestine 

  • Oppression: Babylonians, Jews have never lived freely, Greeks ruled and then Romans

  • Jesus will be born into Roman rule over the Jews

  • Anticipation of the Messiah, Jews were waiting to be freed from rule by the Messiah, King or warrior that was described in OT

  • There was some freedom to practice their religion because the Romans were ruling from afar