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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
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Religious institution established during the
Babylonian Exile which became the center of the study and teaching of the Torah
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When Paul said in Galatians 4:4 that the coming
of Jesus into the world took place
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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
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Center of Jewish sacrificial worship destroyed by
the Romans in A.D. 70
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A fanatical revolutionary political movement that
opposed the foreign rule of Judea by the Romans
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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
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The spreading of Greek language and culture
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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)
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The Jewish supreme court which handled all
religious violations and breaking of the rules of the Torah
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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
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Festival of Lights which celebrates the cleansing
and rededication of the Temple at the end of the Maccabean war during the intertestmental period
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