HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vulgate, Synoptic Gospels, Syncretism
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Constantinople: the largest city and former capital of turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient byzantium by constantine i in the fourth century. Catholic: catholics used latin, so their bibles were published in latin. Only the priests and the higher-class could read latin. Orthodox: greek orthodox church splits in 900 bce, bible being published in greek. Josephus: writes about jews and romans. Jewish war: war between jews and romans. Gnostic gospels: books not in bible, only found fairly recently, about 60 books. Iconography: images, the split between greek and holy roman churches took place around the rise of islam, pope at the time said that we need to do away with our imagery. Syncretism: when you take elements of one religion and combine it with another. Vulgate bible: one of the first bibles, was in latin. St. peter"s basilica: christian basilica in vatican.
