CHS MIDTERM

A Roman governor who ruled Palestine for Rome at the time of Jesus

• Herod Phillip

• Pontius Pilate

• Herod Antipas

A zealous Jewish priest who started the revolt against the tyrannical Greek rulers, under the leadership of his sons Jews won relative independence from the Syrian Greeks.

• Archelaus

• Matathias

• Herod Antipas

• Judas Maccabee

A well-known emperor who expanded the Greek empire and promoted Greek culture in his vast empire.

• Julius Ceasar

• Herod the Great

• Alexander the Great

• Cyrus the Great

A capricious cruel ruler who is hated by Jews and was known for his building projects 

• Cyrus the Great

• Herod the Great

• Julius Ceasar

A revolt leader who won Jewish independence from the Seleucids.

• Judas Maccabee

• Archelaus

• Herod Antipas

• Matathias

An empire who dominated Jews during the time of Jesus' life and the time of the writing of the New Testament

• Greece

• Rome

• Persia

• Babylonia

Group which believed that the Jewish society is so corrupt that the right thing to so is withdraw from society and set an isolated community devoted to observing the will of God

• Essenes

• Revolutionaries

• Herodians

• People of the Land

Ordinary Jews, whose  main preoccupation is to survive. They may be ignorant of the finer points of the law, and therefore may not be so meticulous in observing it. 

• Essenes

• People of the Land

• Revolutionaries

• Herodians

A group which believed that devotion to God must mean being willing to fight and die for their faith and take up arms  against the Romans

• People of the Land

• Herodians

• Revolutionaries

• Pharisees

A party which collaborated with the family of Herod for political and material benefits.

• Samaritans

• Sadducees

• Sanhedrin

• Herodians