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- paraclete
- an alternate means of referring to God’s divine agent in the Gospel of John and 1 John; could refer to either the Holy Spirit (e.g., John 14:15-17) or to Jesus (1 John 2:1).
- parousia
- referred to the visit of a high official; in early Christianity referred to the second coming of Christ at the end of time
- passion narrative
- the portion of the Gospel narratives which recount the events leading to the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus; perhaps the oldest sequential narrative among the Gospel traditions.
- pentecost
- a Greek term for the Jewish Feast of Weeks, a harvest festival celebrated in June on the fiftieth day after Passover; in Acts 2, the day the Holy Spirit descended upon the Jerusalem Church
- People of the land
- a Hebrew expression during the second temple period for the common masses in Palestine, mostly rural and poor, who were regarded as religiously lax by the Pharisees; among whom Jesus worked primarily
- pericope
- a self-contained unit about Jesus which circulated independently before the writing of the gospel narratives
- pesher
- associated with midrash, a Hebrew term for an eschatological view of Scripture that saw Scripture referring to the last days; characteristic of exegesis at Qumran
- philo
- a wealthy, well-educated Alexandrian Jew who wrote philosophical essays explaining and defending Judaism to non-Jews; a Middle Platonist (born ca. 25 BCE)
- post-exilic
- refers to the time after the Babylonian exile and before the building of the second temple in Jerusalem (ca. 586-538 BCE)
- proselyte
- a convert; in early Christianity, a Gentile who had converted to Judaism
- pseudopigrapha
- Greek for “false writingâ€; a group of late Jewish writings which claim to be written by notable figures of Israelite history but were not; offer insights into second temple Judaism; many were apocalypses or apocalyptic
- pseudonymity
- writing under an assumed name either (1) to gain the authority of the alleged author, (2) to speak on his behalf, (3) to attribute a writing to a recognized authority figure and/or (4) some combination of the above. A pseudonym is the false name itself
- rabbi
- a Jewish religious authority trained to teach, interpret and apply the Law of Moses
- samaritans
- inhabitants of the area west of the Jordan River between Judea and Galilee; descendents of the 10 lost tribes of ancient Israel and various Gentile ethnicities; kept the law of Moses and had their own temple on Mt. Gerizim. Normally, Jews looked down on them because of their non-Jewish heritage and their religious practices