The Maccabean Revolution Between the books of Malachi and Matthew, the Maccabees fought for the rights and freedom of the Jewish nation. At that time the Jews were under massive oppression by the Seleucid rulers. One in particular was Antiochus, he tormented the Jews in the hope of Hellenizing them, and to top it off he used their own religious beliefs against them in massive slaughter and humiliation. The Maccabees however, against all odds, freed the nation of Judah, and successfully regained
Sinai The name of the sacred mountain before which Israel encamped at the time of the law giving and the establishing of the covenant relationship .The Hebrew is sometimes qualified by the words hill or mountain or desert. Sinai less likely the name of a mountain than the normal designation of one particular peak in the Sinai wilderness. In OT both desolate Rephidim area to the northwest and the mount itself area called Horeb. In OT the covenant between God and Israel .The location of this mounatain
Essay: The Bible says Jesus of Nazareth was a teacher who used miracles to help people. In reality he was a wandering man whose simple tricks and healing remedies were mistaken for miracles. He wandered Judea preaching about the validity of the jewish laws. This gained him a large following. Roman officials caught wind of this and were scared of an uprising. So they had him executed; however this had the opposite effect. The jewish sect that followed Jesus was pacified for some time but emerged again
that 1st and 2nd Maccabees were written by a Jewish author, given the tone that the author of 1st Maccabees takes about to the Hellenization of Judea and given the prologue of 2nd Maccabees. In 1st Maccabees, the author describes the Hellenizing
During all of this Judea allied with the Babylonians and with this Judea kept her independence. During the last century before Judea was destroyed it was ruled by four rulers and of those rulers, all but Josiah were wicked. Josiah was committed to God and led Judea to him. All the others did not heed the warnings of Ezekiel and Jeremiah from God, and the rulers of Judea chose to rebel against God. God punished Judea by sending Nebuchadnezzar’s army to crush the nation of Judea and flatten the city
but failed because Egypt fought back angrily. So they kept the original border lines in Egypt. Judea is one of the places Rome expanded to during The Pax Romana. After King Herod’s death, control of Judea was divided among his sons. Rome did not like this form of government, so they took over. Ruling over Judea was not peaceful, so the Jewish natives fiercely resisted. After a lot of fighting Judea finally found peace in the 60s AD. Although The Pax Romana was the most peaceful time in Rome there
about Jesus preaching to the Pharisees in Judea about marriage and divorce. Luke instead quotes Jesus’s thoughts on marriage and divorce in between Jesus’s preaching of the Pharisees about money. Mark and Matthew seems to disagree on many of the chronology and details regarding what he preached. Mark 10:1 states: “He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan.” Mark suggests that Jesus left a “place” and went to two locations; both Judea and beyond Jordan to preach marriage
The book of Acts is the second volume in Luke’s inspired history of the life and teaching of Christ and the successive ministries of His apostles. The book is addressed to an unknown “Theophilus”, as is his Gospel, who is probably a financier of Luke’s thoroughly researched journalistic enterprise. The purpose of the book is to set forth the historical foundation of the acts and teaching of the apostles, to demonstrate the faithfulness of the Church in pursuing the Great Commission, and to reveal
Director William Wyler's film was a retelling of the spectacular silent film of the same name (director Fred Niblo's and MGM's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)). Both films were adapted from the novel (first published in 1880) by former Civil War General Lew Wallace. Wyler had been an 'extras' director on the set of DeMille's original film in the silent era. MGM's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), featuring a cast of 125,000, cost about $4 million to make after shooting began on location
Jewish soldiers, or rebels, marching through the streets past heaps of bodies knowing they have left a stain of sin on their lives while they go fight a war they know they will not win. Along with this, Josephus also describes the famine that took over Judea. During this time, he illustrates how they were like “mad dogs” eating anything they could get their hands on. I believe that Josephus starts his writing with this vivid writing about the Jewish population to set the foundation for when he shifts the
the president of the games. Herod was never really allowed to give full rein to his love of opulence because he was scared the Pharisees would be offended. Herod was always in debate with the Pharisees because they saw him as a foreigner ruling over Judea. Herod saw himself as the patron of pagans but also as a protector of Jews outside of Palestine, who were mistreated by Gentile hosts whom he tried to compromise
“Bitumen of Judea”. Bitumen of Judea was a “small piece of polished pewter” which Niepce had placed in his camera obscura and then “coated with a solution of bitumen and lavender oil” to create the picture. He used this because bitumen, a naturally occurring asphalt, is light sensitive (Welch). This is an important property of bitumen because that means when it’s introduced to light, it will change to match with the light, which is what was needed for a picture to come out. The Bitumen of Judea remained
Messala asks Judah for his help in Rome’s imperial mission, a request to which Judah refuses. When the new governor of Judea arrives, loose tiles fall from the roof of Judah’s house and causes a near-fatal accident for
Christ¹s life Christianity spread to become a main world religion. In 63 B.C. Roman power spread to Judea, the Jewish homeland. At the time King Herod was the ruler of Judea, he accepted Roman rule and angered many Jews by doing so. After the death of Herod many Jews revolted against Roman rule for 10 years. At this time there were two main factions of Jews, one group, the Zealots wanted to rid Judea of Roman influence. The other group was waiting for a messiah as scripture had prophetized. The Messiah
Ben-Hur is an epic historical drama made in America in 1959. It won 11 Academy Awards, a record untouched until Titanic in 1997. It is set in Judea beginning in 26 A.D. and spans the years leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The plot of the film follows Judah Ben-Hur, primarily concerning his interactions with the Roman Empire and its military. The movie begins with a robust overture. The after a depiction of the Nativity story, the main story begins in Jerusalem. Judah Ben-Hur is
there is only one existing god. Although this belief seems simple in comparison to polytheism; the belief in many gods, history has proven that monotheism had its fair share of consequences from its inception in Judea and Egypt all the way through the medieval era. Monotheism first began in Judea, making Judaism the first monotheistic religion. For the Jews, “monotheism had initiated a process of self-discovery and self-realization unmatched by other peoples of the Near East. The great value that Westerners
in Greek means dispersion. The Jewish Diaspora had three main periods to it: the Babylonian exile, the Hellenistic dispersion, and the Roman War (R. Sands, 1). The Jewish Diaspora began in 586 BCE when the Jews were deported from their motherland, Judea, as a result of shifts of power and war (R. Sands, 1). After this came the Hellenistic part of the Diaspora which was the voluntary movement of the Jews. In the Roman War, Jews were again forced to leave their homeland after the Romans destroyed their
The Sadducees were one of the many distinct groups making up the Jewish faith during the first century. Their name is derived from the Greek and Hebrew languages and means the “righteous ones.” This may have been in direct relation to their belief that they were the descendants of Zadok, who was once a high priest during the reigns of King David and King Solomon and the revelation of the prophet Ezekiel advising that only those who were the “sons of Zadok” could approach God and the most do so
religion was not involved, many of the millions of Jews killed might still be living today. Another example of a war is the dispute between Palestine and Israel that has been going on for thousands of years is over ‘Holy Land’, Judea. It all started when Judea was conquered by the Romans and ...
actively help in conquering two major rebel towns, Tarichaeae and Gamla. Together with his other battles and his siege of Jerusalem, Titus portrayed the image of a brave and successful military leader. With the death of Nero in 68 CE, Vespasian left Judea in the m... ... middle of paper ... ...ntentional placement at the highest point of the Via Sacra. The Arch of Titus thus stands to this day, but instead of representing the glory and might of the Roman Empire, it serves as a remainder that no