RELI 1710 Study Guide - Sicarii, Pharisees, Synoptic Gospels
Document Summary
Greek: the new testament is written in greek. Latin: the language of the church and the vulgate. Messiahs and prophets: promising to bring israel back to their region. He was seen as a political thread. His movement spread very quickly because of paul. He was carrying documents that could arrest people in damascus. At one point he is the enemy of christianity and at another he is the champion on early christianity and jesus. Worked mostly in greece and asia minor. He is on a mission to make people convert. He dies in 65 ce in rome so he never saw the destroyed temple. Galilee: a small province to the north and is away from jerusalem. Peter (identified as the chef) and james (brother of jesus: They are christ followers that were looking for christianity without kashrut and circumcision. Gnostics: they believed that jesus only appeared to be human. Marcion: they rejected the gospel of matthew.
