RELG 203: Final Exam Revision * 666: Satan’s number‚ associated with the fact Satan had 3 faces and 3 sets of wings‚ the number of the beast * 70 Weeks: Seventy sevens decreed for Jerusalem to finish their transgression and stop sin‚ From the time the world goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem‚ until the Anointed one comes‚ there will be seven sevens and sixty two sevens. The anointed one will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy
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cultures converged in an attempt to defend themselves against the mighty Babylonians‚ whom by this time already had control of Mesopotamia. In 597‚ the deportations from Judah to Babylonia began. This is when the shift from the need to worship in a temple to worship within the home also began. The reason for this shift in practices of the Jewish people developed due to the separation of the people from their traditional house of God. In their efforts of crippling the over 400 year old Judean monarchy
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Cleopatra was in later years one of its most famous members‚ see also Antony and Cleopatra)‚ and the Seleucids to the north in Syria. Earlier‚ Israel was included in the Ptolemaic kingdom. During the reign of King Philadelphus of Egypt‚ the Jews of Jerusalem provided a translation of the Torah from Hebrew into Greek for the royal library in Alexandria. We know it today as the Septuagint. This benign attitude toward the Jews changed dramatically after the Seleucids took over Israel in 198 B.C. When
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Kathleen Kenyon’s archaeological career was her role as a teacher. From 1948 to 1962 she lectured in Levantine Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology‚ University College London. Kenyon’s teaching‚ complemented by her excavations at Jericho and Jerusalem (which successively formed her ’field school’)‚ helped to train a generation of archaeologists‚ who went on themselves to teach in Britain‚ Australia‚ Canada‚ the United States‚ Denmark and elsewhere. Thesis Statement While Miss
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The letter of Cyrus the Great concerning the Jews was a letter Cyrus wrote stating his plans of helping the Jews return to their kingdom and promising them to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem. He kept his word and made sure that the temple was built and if anyone opposed he threatened them with death. Cyrus’s strategy of conquest was unique because it allowed people that he conquered to have a sense of freedom‚ even though they were being ruled over. They didn’t have to confirm to Persian culture
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Liberty University The seventy sevens: an exegetical study of Daniel 9:24-27 A research paper submitted to Dr. James Todd Ph.D. In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements For BIBL450 Liberty University Online By David Cobb Fort Worth‚ Texas June 13‚ 2013 THE SEVENTY SEVENS: AN EXEGETICAL STUDY OF DANIEL 9:24-27 Throughout church history‚ orthodox scholars and theologians from various positions have come to the agreement that the life‚ ministry‚ death‚ burial‚ and resurrection
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During that time‚ the Babylonian Empire had taken control of Jerusalem. The Babylonians took Jews as captives to Babylon as early as 605 BC and 597 BC. Babylon destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC. Jeremiah lived through the invasions by the Babylonian armies‚ the deportations of his people‚ the slaughter of Jews living in Jerusalem‚ and the destruction of the Temple. Jeremiah warned the people of Jerusalem that they would be punished harshly for their sins. He pleaded with the people
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Name: Jorge Luzar and Shawn Au Tah Wang Module: BS500 Biblical Interpretation Date of Submission: 2 Sep 2015 (Mon‚ 7pm) Historical Context Paper: James Authorship So who is this James who wrote our epistle? Judging by how this James identifies himself at the beginning – “This letter is from James‚ a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad. Greetings!” (James 1:1)‚ we can see that he was well known to the audience then
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tend to also isolate them socially from other peoples as seen today with Israeli and its Middle Eastern neighbors. b) What does the Law of Moses and the Hebrew priesthood contribute to the Jewish social structure from Moses to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.?
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and controlled the Canaanite town of Jerusalem. 1050 BC : Philistines with there superior in military organization and using iron weapons‚ they severely defeated the Israelites about 1050 BC . 1000 BC : David‚ Israel’s great king‚ finally defeated the Philistines‚ and they eventually assimilated with the Canaanites . The unity of Israel and the feebleness of adjacent empires enabled David to establish a large independent state‚ with its capital at Jerusalem. 922 BC : Under David’s son and
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