Chapter 3 Self Quiz

The Jewish World of Early Christianity
. The Septuagint is _____.

. Which of the following was not unique to Judaism?

. Ancient Jews believed that the special place of God's presence was the _____.

. Which of the following activities did not take place in synagogues?

. Which group believed in the authority of the oral law?

. Which group left Jerusalem because they believed the Jewish leadership had gone astray?

. Which group was aristocratic and ran the Temple?

. Who among the following was not a Jewish holy man?

. Jews in Palestine disliked the Syrian ruler Antiochus Epiphanes because _____.

. The Jewish response to Antiochus Epiphanes' actions was _____.

. The Jewish holiday Hanukkah celebrates _____.

. Who discussed the Jewish groups that emerged in the first century BCE?

. Most Jews in Palestine were _____.

. Most of the Jews in the diaspora stopped speaking the ancient tongue of Judea, which was _____.

. The group of texts used by the Essenes is called _____.

. Which of the following is not a major tenet of apocalypticism?

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