Groups and Debates
This group stressed careful obedience, holiness, and interpretation of the law in everyday life.
Who are the Pharisees?
This term refers to Jewish families living in many cities far from Jerusalem.
What is the Diaspora?
At this site, 2nd-century BC coins and tools show that trade continued and people adapted.
What is Khirbet el-Maqatir?
The Intertestamental Period lasted about this many years.
What is 400?
This is the last Old Testament book written.
What is Malachi?
This group was closely connected to the priestly leadership and temple establishment.
Who are the Sadducees?
These are the places where Scripture was read, prayers were offered, and communities formed.
What are the synagogues?
These Jewish writings from the period are not part of the Canon of Scripture.
What is the Apocrypha?
After Alexander died, his empire was split into this many kingdoms ruled by the same number of generals.
What is four?
Complete Galatians 4:4: "But when the fullness of _________ had come, God sent forth His ________."
What is "time" and "Son"?
These communities were marked by separation, discipline, and a strong concern for purity.
Who are the Essenes?
Diaspora Jews carried this kind of identity far from Jerusalem.
What is covenant identity?
These writings are attributed to earlier figures and are not the foundation of Christian doctrine.
What is the Pseudepigrapha?
This is the year the Maccabean revolt began.
"Silent years" refers to the absence of this.
What is prophetic revelation?
The faithfulness of these movements was tied to resistance to foreign rule and a desire for political freedom.
Who are the Zealous movements (Zealots)?
This apostle reasoned (taught) in synagogues across the Mediterranean.
Who is Paul?
Although they are not Scripture for Protestants, these writings remain useful for this reason.
What is they help us understand the questions, hopes, and themes of the era? (provide context and support)
By the first century, this many (#) great highways emerged from Rome.
What is 29?
This three-part phrase describes how God was governing history toward the incarnation.
What is Promise-Preparation-Fulfillment?
Name the five great debates that made Jesus' conflicts so intense.
What are the Sabbath, purity, the Temple, the resurrection, and the Kingdom?
Name three things diaspora Jews needed ways to stay rooted in.
What are Scripture, prayer, teaching, or shared memory?
Name the four kinds of archaeological evidence that give texture to the world behind Scripture.
What are coins, tools, buildings, and inscriptions?
There were estimated to be 370 Roman roads covering this many miles.
What is 250,000 miles?
Name at least 4 of the 5 things this period prepared for the coming of the gospel.
What are the spread of the Greek language, Jewish communities shaped by Scripture, Synagogues for teaching and community, sharpened messianic longing, and political questions about Lordship?