Villages, Towns, and Cities; Work, Trades, and Professions;
Commerce, Transportation, and Communication; Entertainment and Leisure
Group vs Individual Mentality; Family and Kinship
Hospitality; Social Status & Position in Life; Patronage
100
These people reclined on their left arm and ate with their right
Who are the Romans
100
A village or a small rural settlement.
What is a kome?
100
This was the duration for typical trade
What is 3 weeks in one direction and up to 3 months in the other
100
This was the supreme authority in the family unit.
What is the father?
100
"The host is expected to meet the needs of the guest, to offer the guest the best of food and lodging..the guest in turn is expected to graciously accept whatever is offered to honor the host and his family, and to praise to others."
What is hospitality?
200
The conservative school that allowed a man to divorce his wife only for unfaithfulness
What is Shammai
200
Recreation, exercise and fellowship facilities also used as educational centers for boys.
What is a gymnasium?
200
The distance a healthy person could walk in a day
What is 25 Miles
200
This radically redefined family relations and kinship from blood relations to an association with the new community of Jesus the Messiah.
What is Christianity?
200
Hospitality was particularly important to this group of people in the first century church.
Who are travelling preachers?
300
An image of God's end-time salvation
What is the Messianic Banquet
300
A center for worship, administration, education, and community gatherings.
What is a synagogues?
300
These people got their news mostly through letters carried by friends and acquaintances
What is common people
300
These people were to be respected because they were the guardians of the sacred traditions.
What are the parents?
300
These people gave loyalty, obedience and honor in return for favors from wealthy patrons.
Who are clients?
400
The culture that people left unwanted things exposed
What is the Pagan culture
400
Olives and grapes
What are the most important agricultural products of Israel.
400
These particular riders travelled forty-five days from Rome to Caesarea
Who are the imperial writers
400
The foolish message of the gospel is the wisdom and power of salvation and the shame of the cross brings glory to all who believe. This is considered to be the _____ _______ of the Christian Life.
What is great paradox?
400
Herod providing resources for building the Jewish Temple and for the synagogue communities.
What is patronage?
500
Marriage beliefs shared by both Jews and Greco-Romans
What is Monogamy
500
Isiah's comparison of the Nation of Israel.
What is an unproductive vineyard?
500
The highlight of the year for most Jews would be attending the great pilgrim festivals in Jerusalem
What is the Passover, Pentecost, and tabernacles
500
Essential identity comes from being a member of a family, a community, or a nation.
What is dyadism?
500
Serving those above you and exciting authority over those below.