| A | B |
|---|
| angels | spiritual beings; God's messengers; never had a body |
| Apocalypic writing | symbolic writing to convey hope; set during the end of time |
| Book of Signs | 1st half of John's Gospel; 7 miracles and explanation |
| Book of Glory | 2nd half of John's Gospel; Last Supper discourse and Passion, Death, Resurrected |
| Covenant | agreement based upon love between God and his people |
| crucifixion | death by suffocation |
| circumcision | mark of the covenant- obstruction to Christ- not required of Christians |
| Diaspora | where Jews were dispersed to |
| epistle | a letter |
| Elijah | powerful prophet to come before the Messiah; role fulfilled by John the Baptist |
| incarnation | becoming flesh |
| prophet | one who speaks God's word to His people |
| Pharisees | scholars /teachers who made oral laws based on 10 commandments |
| Q | a lost document of sayings of Jesus |
| Yom Kippur | Day of Atonement |
| zealots | Jewish warriors who wanted to throw out the Romans from Palenstine |
| Sanhedrin | 71 member Jewish high court (priests had to be Sadducees) |
