The Rise of Christianity
Israel:
Hope in a Messiah:
Jesus of Nazareth:
Reputation:
Claims:
Palm Sunday and significance of Palm Branches:
Expectation of what Jesus would do to Roman Empire:
Last Supper:
Began what Christian tradition:
Judas Iscariot:
Betrays and identifies Jesus with a:
What Peter says he will never do:
What violent act Peter does in defense of Jesus:
What Peter does three times:
Pontius Pilate:
Cat o nine tails:
Word that comes from describing someone going through the process of crucifixion:
INRI:
What was the crime he committed?
What is one of the earliest and best attested facts about Jesus:
Followers originally:
Expect for what male follower:
What different types of people made up his followers?
What type of people stayed to the end with Jesus:
What archeological evidence is there to crucifixion?
Reports quickly circulated:
First witnesses to empty tomb:
Women at this time were considered:
There were many others who had claimed to be the “Messiah” before and after Jesus but none of these people had a claim that they had:
Doubting Thomas:
Thomas’ response to Jesus:
Skeptical family members like:
Jesus family thought he was:
N.T. Wright thinks this about “resurrection”:
John Dominic Crossan’s view on the “resurrection”:
Richard Bauckham’s view:
Saul Paul:
What he did to early Christians:
On the Road to Damascus allegedly he heard the voice of:
Later he Wrote much of the:
Wrote in this language:
How did he use the Pax Romana (the era of Roman Peace):
Christians in the Coliseum (examples of persecution):
Christians in Tar:
What Christians refused to say about Caesar:
In the year 70 CE:
Herod’s Temple:
Today it is called Temple Mount, only today the building there is:
Some Jews want to build here:
Masada:
What the Romans built there:
To celebrate the Romans made:
Diaspora:
Role of Christians:
The Jewish religion and Christian religion:
Early Christians:
Constantine’s Conversion, what caused it and what it resulted in:
Early Christians produced:
Second greatest collection of manuscripts of an ancient work are the works of:
Time from when Herodotus wrote his book Historyto when we have a physical copy:
Number of ancient copies:
Time from when Plato wrote his book to when we have a physical copy:
Number of ancient copies:
Time from New Testament written to when we have a fragment of a book: ±
Number of ancient Greek copies:
Number of copies in Latin:
Quotations of the NT from the Church Fathers:
What you could do with these quotations if all NT manuscripts were destroyed:
How many Textual Variants:
Percent identical?
The vast majority of these differences are so:
Are there other “lost Gospels” that speak meaningfully about the historical life of Jesus?:
The Four New Testament Gospels are the earliest:
Alexamenos Worshipping God, Significance of artwork:
Alexamenos graffito: c. 200 CE, Αλεξαμενος ϲεβετε θεον, “"Alexamenos worships [his] God".