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- Muhammad Ali
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(Nag Hammadi Library)
The Egyptian peat farmer who found the Nag Hammadi Library -
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The realm of the flesh is ________
The realm of the spirit is ________ -
(Gnosticism)
...Evil!
...Good! - Bedouins searching for a goat in the Judean Desert
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(Dead Sea Scrolls)
The discoverers of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, in a cave near Qumran -
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The Dead Sea Scrolls are a group of Christian documents, showing a more "human" Jesus. -
(Dead Sea Scrolls)
False. They are mostly (very old) fragments of the Hebrew Scriptures, and some information about the Essene Community - Qumran
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(Dead Sea Scrolls)
The area of the Judean desert where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found - The end of the world is near!
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(Apocalypticism)
A prominent aspect of Apocalypticism - The evil punished, the good rewarded
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(Apocalypticism)
A prominent aspect of Apocalypticism - God's justice will be revealed at the end of time - Among them were several undiscovered gospels that didn't make their way into the Christian canon
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(Nag Hammadi Library)
E.g., the Gospel of Thomas, The Apocalypse of John and the Gospel of Phillip and 49 other Gnostic tractates - The picture of Jesus in the Gnostic gospels seems more human
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(Gnosticism/Nag Hammadi Library)
False. The Gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi depict Jesus as superhuman and divine, in many cases merely appearing to be human. - Shh. The knowledge of salvation is a secret.
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(Gnosticism)
A tenet of Gnostic belief--those with the divine spark were initiated into the mystery. - The Gospel of Thomas
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(Nag Hammadi Library)
One of the best known non-canonical gospels, found at Nag Hammadi. It is comprised mainly of wisdom sayings. - The Essene Community
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(Dead Sea Scrolls)
The ascetic Jewish community (active at the time of Jesus) whose documents were discovered at Qumran - Jesus was a part of the Essene community at Qumran (T/F)
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(Dead Sea Scrolls)
False. Jesus "ate and drank" with his disciples, unlike the ascetic (i.e. denying the flesh) Qumran community, though they shared some apocalyptic beliefs - "Our beliefs are similar to Jesus: we share all our goods in common, oppose slavery, live by our own agriculture...but we are against marriage"
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(Dead Sea Scrolls)
Beliefs of the Essene community - "The Son of Man is coming"
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(Apocalypticism)
The apocalyptic expectation of a Messiah who would usher in the age of righteousness (of God's justice) - An apocalyptic Community used to live here in Jesus' time.
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(Dead Sea Scrolls)
Qumran, where the Essene Community lived in the time of Jesus - These were written in Coptic (ancient Egyptian)
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(Nag Hammadi Library)
The books found at the Nag Hammadi Library; some were originally in Greek, and translated into Coptic. - The god of the Old Testament is an evil god
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(Gnosticism)
A tenet of some of the gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi--the God Jesus revealed was a different God--a God of love, not wrath. - Some of us contain the divine "spark", beneath our "flesh"
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(Gnosticism)
Gnosticism classified some people into those who had within them a sacred spark, for whom "saving knowledge" would elicit their salvation into the divine realm. - The world is a really cruddy place--let's escape!
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(Gnosticism and Apocalypticism)
A main tenet of Gnosticism and Apocalypticism (pessimism about the world) - The first five books of the Bible
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(Old Testament)
"Torah", or Law (of Moses): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy - The Septuagint
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(Old Testament)
The Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, used by most Jews in the time of Jesus - The 3 sections of the Hebrew Bible
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(Old Testament)
Law (Torah)
Prophets (Nevi'im)
Writings (Ketuvim) - Word for the books that didn't make it into the Hebrew Scriptures
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(Old Testament)
Apocrypha or Deutero-canonical writings.