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=Intertestamental Years=

==Intertestamental Years==
===Also called the “Silent Years”===
===Close of OT===
#Last OT book – Malachi
#About 400BC
===Opening of the NT===
#Time of Christ
===Approximately 400 years===

==Developments==
===Political===
===Religious===
===Cultural===

==Political Changes==
===Persia (539-331 BC)===
#Permit the return to Palestine
===Greece (331-143 BC)===
#Unites the world with one language – lingua franca
#Empire divided among four generals
#Ptolemy rules Egypt and Israel
#Antiochus Epiphanes (Dan 11)
#Seleucid – Maccabean revolt
##Mattathias and Judas Maccabeus are the key names in the Maccabean revolt
##Recorded in the book of First Maccabees
##Origin of Hanukkah (Feast of dedication/lights)
===Hasmonean Rule (142-63 BC)===
#Israel an independent nation for 79 years
===Rome (63 BC ff.)===
#Rome brings peace and stability to the land.
#Establish Herod as governor then tetrarch
In all, the people had 400 years of constant change, war, and political confusion

==Religious Changes==
===Synagogues rise to importance===
#Develops from captivity and localizes religion
#In order to have a synagogue a group needed to have a minimum of ten men.
#If you did not have ten men then you went to the river as a designated meeting area.
#Temple worship is diminished
===Religious Leadership diversified===
#Pharisees
##Largest group
##Most conservative group
##Controlled the synagogues
#Sadduces
##Controlled the temple
##Theologically liberal
##Did not believe in angels, resurrection
#Sanhedrin
##The collition of the left and the right that come together to make religious decisions.

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		+	#Zealots
		+	##Sicarri
		+	###Names after a dagger (curved weapon of assassination)
		+	#Essenes
		+	##Believed to be in Qumran and have produced the DSS
		+	##Essentially checked out of society
		+	##Possibly some connection between the Essenes and John the Baptist. Perhaps his parents died early. His parents were old when he was born. John was comfortable in the dessert. Note: Locust is not a bug but rather the fruit of the locust tree.
		+	##One of the largest mass suicides in history the night before the Romans would have conquered them at Masada.
		+	===Hanukkah added to religious festivals===
		+	#Also Purim from Esther
		+	===Temple remodeled by Herod===
		+	#begun in 20 BC
		+	===Septuagint rises in prominence===
		+
		+	==Cultural Changes==
		+	===Apocryphal books written===
		+	===Roman peace – pa Romana===
		+	===Hebrew Language===
		+	#Hebrew is no longer spoken by common man in Israel since returning from captivity
		+	#Aramaic commonly spoken
		+	#Greek is known universally
		+	#Hebrew becomes the language of the scholar
		+	===Rise of Hellenism===
		+	#Needed to define what makes someone ‘Jewish’
		+	##The answer they come up with is that the woman determines the Jewishness. Note: this is the same as today in Judaism.
		+	#Rise of the Samaritan problem

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Wakefien at 16:46, 28 September 2018

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