| Question 1: Other sects emerged at this time, such as the ________ in Jerusalem and the Therapeutae in Egypt. | |||
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| Question 2: Bath houses were built in ________, for instance, and the gymnasium became a center of social, athletic, and intellectual life. | |||
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| Question 3: Critical biblical scholarship puts forth the claim that the ________ was also redacted during this period according to the documentary hypotheses. | |||
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| Question 4: The sages of the ________ see a direct link between themselves and the Pharisees, and historians generally consider Pharisaic Judaism to be the progenitor of Rabbinic Judaism, that is normative, mainstream Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple. | |||
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| Question 5: Indeed, much of Jesus' teaching, for example the ________, is consistent with that of the Pharisees and later Rabbinic thought. | |||
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| Question 6: When Simon was killed in 135 BCE, his son ________ took his place as high priest and king. | |||
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| Question 7: According to the classic ________ in Avot D'Rabbi Nathan (4:5): | |||
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| Question 8: In 537 BCE, ________ inaugurated the Persian period of Jewish history by allowing Jews to return to Judea and rebuild the Temple, which was completed in 515 BCE. | |||
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| Question 9: The Pharisaic attitude is perhaps best exemplified by a story about ________, who lived at the end of the 1st century BCE. | |||
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| Question 10: According to the Torah, Jews were required to travel to Jerusalem and offer sacrifices at the Temple three times a year: Pesach (________), Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), and Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles). | |||
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