CHRTC 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intertestamental Period, 2 Maccabees, Sirach

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Christian Theology at St Joseph's College
• Course: CHRTC 100
• Professor: Andrew Kirk

Document Summary

Septuagint: a greek version of the jewish scriptures. Ecclesiasticus, wisdom of solomon, judith, tobit, baruch, 1 and 2 maccabees. Apocrypha (hidden): a group of jewish writings from the intertestamental period. Pseudepigrapha: jewish and christian writings from the intertestamental period. Falsely attributed means that these writing were attributed to authors who didn"t write them. What are some reasons one may give to justify the value of studying the bible? (1. 2) It also helps in reading other non- religious literature = because of learning how to analyze text and understand other textual elements such as geography, etc. Semitic: people who speak the semitic languages, such as hebrew and arabic. Fertile crescent: aka the cradle of civilization = a crest shaped region where agriculture and early human civilizations prospered because of the surround rivers (nile). The gift of the nile : what egypt was called since the kingdom owed its survival to the annual flooding of the nile.