WITNESS OF THE GOSPELS – Vitalis Hoffman

 

Bible Facts You Need to Know

DOCUMENTS FOR THE STUDY OF THE NT AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY

 

For the Apocryphal books, you only need to identify that they are Apocryphal. For the NT books, you need to memorize their order. For the other documents, have a very brief description.

 


Apocryphal books

1 Esdras

2 Esdras

Baruch

Bel and the Dragon

Ecclesiasticus

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

3 Maccabees

4 Maccabees

Greek Additions to Esther

Judith

Letter of Jeremiah

The Prayer of Manasseh

The Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Young Men

Psalm 151 

Susanna

Tobit

The Wisdom of Solomon 

 

 


New Testament Books

The Gospels

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

 

Historical Narrative

Acts

 

Pauline Letters

Romans

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Colossians

1 Thessalonians

2 Thessalonians

1 Timothy

2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

 

General Epistles & Revelation

Hebrews

James

1 Peter

2 Peter

1 John

2 John

3 John

Jude

Revelation


Other Documents

Dead Sea Scrolls

Diatessaron

Didache

Gospel of Thomas

Mishnah

MT = Masoretic Text

Nag Hammadi Library

Septuagint = LXX

 “Q” document

Synoptic Gospels

Talmud

Targumim

Pseudepigrapha

 



SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE

Andrew

Antiochus Epiphanes IV

Caesar Augustus

Caiaphas

Elizabeth

Herod Agrippa I

Herod Agrippa II

Herod Antipas

Herod Archaleus

Herod Philip

Herod the Great

James the son of Zebedee

John Hyrcanus

John the Apostle

John the Baptist

Joseph (NT)

Josephus

Judas Iscariot

Judas Maccabee

Judas the Galilean

Martha

Mary Magdalene

Mary Mother of Jesus

Mary of Bethany

Matthew

Peter

Philip the Evangelist

Philo

Pompey

Pontius Pilate

Saul / Paul

Simon bar Kochba

Stephen

Teacher of Righteousness

Tiberius

Titus

Vespasian

Zechariah (NT)

 

GROUPS OF PEOPLE

Essenes

Jews

Gentiles

Pharisees

Sadducees

Sanhedrin

Hasmoneans

Ptolomies

Scribes

Seleucids

Zealots


BIBLICAL PLACES

Palestine

( http://virtualreligion.net/iho/map.html )

Bethany

Bethlehem

Caesarea Philippi

Capernaum

Dead Sea

Galilee

Jerusalem

Jordan River

Judea

Masada

Nazareth

Qumran

Samaria (country)

Sea of Galilee

Sepphoris

 

 

DATES

587 BCE            Fall of Southern Kingdom

587-539 BCE            Period of Babylonian Exile

539 BCE            Some exiles return from Babylonia

539-332 BCE            Persian Period

332 BCE            Alexander the Great captures Jerusalem

332-141 BCE             Greek Period

167 BCE            Desecration of Temple by Antiochus Epiphanes IV

164 BCE             Maccabees rededicate Temple

141-63 BCE            Maccabean Period / Hasmonean Dynasty

63 BCE            Romans (Pompey) take control of Palestine

63 BCE-ca600CE            Roman Period

40 BCE            Herod the Great named King

~5 BCE            Birth of Jesus

4 BCE            Herod dies; kingdom divided among 3 sons

6 CE            Herod Archelaus exiled; tax revolt (Judas the Galilean); Roman procurators rule Judea, Idumea, Samaria

30 CE            Jesus' death and resurrection

49/50 CE            Jerusalem Council (Acts 15)

66 CE            First Jewish revolt

70 CE            Romans destroy Jerusalem Temple

74 CE            Masada falls to Romans

132-135 CE            Second Jewish revolt (Simon bar Kochba)

 

 

 


OTHER WORDS AND CONCEPTS

( http://virtualreligion.net/primer/  )

http://www.ministryserver.com/bible/glbible/gl__.htm )

Text Criticism

(http://www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html   -

א = Sinaiticus

A = Alexandrinus

Alexandrian Family

Autograph

B = Vaticanus

Byzantine Family

C = Ephraemi

Codex

D = Bezae

Minuscule

Uncial

Vellum

W = Washingtonensis

Western Family

Papyrus

 

Form Criticism

(Powell, Gospels, 20ff.)

Sitz im Leben

Parable

Pronouncement Story  (Chreia)

Legend

Myths

 

 

Apocalypse / Apocalyptic

Covenant

Day of Atonement

Diaspora

Eschatology

Griesbach Hypothesis

Hellenism

High Priest

Honor

Kerygma

Messiah / Christ

Miracle

Passover

Rabbi

Sabbath

Synagogue

Temple

Two Source Hypothesis