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	People & Events	Concept & Movement	Literature
Greek Rule	Hasidim Hasmoneans Maccabee Revolt Quamran Essenes Teacher of Righteousness	Apocalypticism Hellenization Sophia Purity Law	Apocalypse Apocrypha Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) Dead Sea Scrolls LXX (= Septuagint) Pesher Pseudepigrapha Targum
Roman Rule	Cynics John the Baptist Messiah Pharisees Philo Sadducees Tax collector Zealots Sanhedrin	Eschatology Gospel (as literary genre) Kerygma Parousia Divine Man	"Q" Aretalogy Midrash Miracle Story Sign source
Post-70	Jewish War of A.D. 66-70 Eusebius Josephus Papias Rabbis of Jamina (Yavneh)	Docetism Dual Torah Gnosticism Temple (In Jerusalem)	Didache Gospel of Thomas Haggadah Halakhah
NT Studies	Rudolf Bultmann Martin Dibelius Joachim Jeremias Albert Schweitzer B.H. Streeter	Apophthegm Exegesis Parable Sitz in Leben Synoptic Problem Antitheses	Textual Criticism Form Criticism Redaction Criticism Narrative Criticism Sociological approach

For each term, always try in 5 sentences to:

1. define what it means (oore that its etymology or translation)
2. state how important it is for our understanding of the social-historical setting of Jesus, of early Judaism, and of the early church (information regarding who, when, where, what, and how need to be noted)
3. demonstrate how significan it is for the study of the NT (giving examples, if appropriate, in and from the NT itself)