The perpetual sacrifice, offered in the Tabernacle and Temple, in both morning and late afternoon.
What is tamid?
100
The 39 Prohibited Labors
What is Mishnah Shabbat?
100
The Gospel of Matthew brings Isaiah 7:14 as a prooftext for the virgin birth. It's interpretation hinges on the translation of this word.
What is almah?
100
The belief in, and worship of, only one God, to the exclusion of all others.
What is radical monotheism?
100
INRI is a Latin acronym that stands for these words inscribed over the cross.
What is Jesus Christ King of the Jews?
200
This Greek derived word originally referred to (prohibited) post banquet revelry; it would later come to refer to eating a broken piece of matzah for dessert.
What is afiqoman?
200
"In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God, and the Logos was God."
What is the Gospel of John?
200
According to Justin, this man's "visitors" were none other than God and Christ?
Who is Abraham?
200
The notion that Christianity is the true fulfillment of the covenants in the Hebrew Bible.
What is supersessionism?
200
The number of labors prohibited on the Sabbath, according to rabbinic law.
What is 39?
300
These people are "fourteenthers," a term relating to their belief that Jesus was crucified on the 14th day of Nisan.
Who are quartodecimans?
300
The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.
What are the synoptic Gospels?
300
Articulated by Justin, this doctrine advances the belief that, at the Second Coming, there would be a general resurrection of the dead followed by a thousand year reign in the restored city of Jerusalem.
What is millennialism?
300
The belief in the Catholic Church that Mary, mother of Jesus, was born without sin, or better yet, unstained by sin.
What is Immaculate Conception?
400
Ill-defined as "Word," this loaded concept makes its first appearance in the works of Philo of Alexandria. Later it will resurface in the Gospel of John.
What is Logos?
400
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the very first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
What is Exodus?
400
The belief that Jesus was crucified on the fourteenth of Nisan.
What is quartodecimanism?
400
A 354-day calendar with an occasional leap-month to keep it aligned with the 365-day calendar.
What is luni-solar calendar?
500
This beloved song in the Passover Seder appears in inverted form in Melito's Peri Pascha.
What is dayyenu?
500
While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”
What is Matthew (and the synoptic Gospels)?
500
The belief that God is the God of everyone; all people have a shot at salvation.