What is the definition of the term: Rabbi?
A Hebrew word for “my master” or “my teacher”; someone authorized to teach and judge in matters of Jewish law.
Who occupied Judea for most of the Rabbinic Period?
The Romans
What are the three major Sects of the Rabbinic Period?
Sadducees, Pharisees and Essenes
What are Rabbis to Judasim?
The spiritual leaders and teachers.
What caused the tensions between traditional Jews and Jewish Christians?
The argument on wheather or not Jesus was the Messiah.
What is the definition of the term: Sects?
Religious groups that separate from or distinguish themselves within a larger religious denomination
What are the features of this period of Jewish History?
The rise of the synagogue and the establishment of centers of Jewish learning.
Which Sect were the Biological descendants of Zadok, the first high priest?
Sadducees
What caused the emergence and prominence of Rabbis?
The destruction of the Temple
Although their interpretations diverged radically what did both traditional Jews and Jewish Christians use?
The same Hebrew scriptures.
What is the definition of the term: Septuagint?
The earliest Greek version of the Hebrew Bible completed around the second century BCE
Who was Philo of Alexandria?
A very prominent Jewish philosopher who was comfortable integrating Jewish theology and Greek philosophy.
Which sect has a loose interpretation of the Torah?
Pharisees
Who are two of the most notable Rabbis?
Shammai and Hillel
When did the seperation between Judaism and Christianity occur?
Distinctions between the religions were made clear by the middle of the second century.
What is the definition of the term: Talmud?
Two long collections of Jewish religious literature that include and have commentaries on the Mishnah, the Hebrew code of laws that emerged about 200 CE
What did Emperor Hadrian after he defeated the revolt?
He...
- built a shrine to Jupiter on the site of the Temple Mount
- Renamed Judea to Palestine
- Banned Jews from ever returning.
The Esseness sect was unknown until 1947 when what happened?
A boy found clay jars filled with their writing fragments (Dead Sea Scrolls).
Who is the current Cheif rabbinate of Israel?
Rabbi David Lau.
Why did some of the Jewish identy of Chritianity erode?
Because more Gentiles became followers of Jesus.
What is the definition of the term: Dead Sea Scrolls?
A series of mostly partial manuscripts containing both biblical and nonbiblical material discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin boy in caves near the Dead Sea
What is the name of the Jewish Military leader who led a revolt againt the Roman Emperor Hadrian?
Simon bar Kociba
What led to the decline of thethree sects and why?
The destruction of the Temple, because with the Temple gone, Jews had to reinterpreted religious practices.
How did Rabbis systematically transform the Temple rituals for practice outside the Temple?
By creating Rabbinical schools and the Talmuds.
What kind of person did some Jews believe the Messiah would be?
A warrior-king who would bring an army to defeat their enemies and restore the land of Israel to justice with Jewish sovereignty, enabling the Jews of the Diaspora to return to the homeland.