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Chapter 18, Discovering the
Bible
| ACROSS |
| 2 | | A Jewish religious movement which built a
community at Qumran and wound up hiding their writings in jars in nearby caves during a
Roman invasion |
| 6 | | Religious institution established during the
Babylonian Exile which became the center of the study and teaching of the Torah |
| 9 | | When Paul said in Galatians 4:4 that the coming
of Jesus into the world took place |
| 10 | | A Jewish religious group which required strict
adherence to both written and oral Law, including the interpretations handed down by
generations of great rabbis; they believed in the coming of the Messiah and the resurrection of
the dead |
| 11 | | Center of Jewish sacrificial worship destroyed by
the Romans in A.D. 70 |
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| DOWN |
| 1 | | A fanatical revolutionary political movement that
opposed the foreign rule of Judea by the Romans |
| 3 | | These descendants of Assyrian colonists and
Israelites were viewed by most Jews as a mixed and defiled people who did not belong to their
nation |
| 4 | | The spreading of Greek language and culture |
| 5 | | A king of Judea who was a skillful and cunning
diplomat, a military strategist and a ruthless and murderous ruler (he was in power when Jesus
was born) |
| 6 | | The Jewish supreme court which handled all
religious violations and breaking of the rules of the Torah |
| 7 | | A Jewish religious group which considered the
Books of Moses as their central authority; they promoted the Temple as necessary for the
existence of Judaism while also rejecting concepts such as resurrection, angels, demons and
future reward |
| 8 | | Festival of Lights which celebrates the cleansing and
re-dedication of the Jerusalem Temple at the end of the Maccabean war (during the period
between the Old and New Testaments) |
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