| A | B |
|---|
| devotion of Chist's Dis. to him | Story of N.T |
| Mistery religons | Self experience, life & death cycle |
| Greek religon | 12 gods and other earth gods= bad ie god of death |
| Zealots | believed what phar. Grilla group |
| Jesus was = w/ other teacher | insight, travel, followers |
| Jesus was not= w/ other teacher | taught common as well as important people far, reaching impact |
| Why did early chuch spread? | Followers of J.C knew he wasalive --> willing to risk |
| Romans like Judaism | High standard of dis, practical, could read about it. |
| 1st cen peopleliked Christian | gave purpose in life, anserwed ?'s real events |
| It was easy for Church to spead | roman roads, no comuication problems |
| In the time of the N.T | Romans hated Jews |
| Alex the great's biggest accomplishments | Taking over Persian and egypt |
| In the 1st cen Jews no longer sarifices | No temple, exile, synacouge |
| It was hard for Jews to submitt to Roman | they believed in 1God and no images. |
| Gnosticim | 2 worlds: Spirit(good) vs, matter bad |
| Epicurean | pleasure, detatched |
| 1st X-mas | 4bc |
| Herod the Great | Killed babies when J.C was born, died 4Bc. |
| Hellenism | Greek culture. |
| Stoics | reason |
| Maccabees | Melisha against Greek gods |
| Jossephus | Jewish historian |
| three sects of Judaism | Saducces Phracces and essenes |
