Karen Armstrong has a glossary at the end of the book, but no index.
Anselm of Laon, 132
Aristotle, 131
Abraham lived in Hebron; his son Isaac in Beersheba, and his grandson Jacob (Israel) eventually settled in the countryside around Shechem, 14
Acts of the Apostles, a history of the early church, 66
Against Celsus, Origen (185 - 254), an apologia to refute a pagan philosopher's critique of Christianity, 108
Alexandria, 48, 107
allegoria, 50, 106
- all events and characters of the Old Testament become types of Christ in the New Testament, 106
allegory, 49, 105+
almah (young woman), 19
almah (Septuagint translated almah as parthenos (virgin), 68
al-Andalus, Muslim kingdom, 131
Athanasius of Alexandria (296 - 373), 117
Antioch, where Christians first given that name, 59
Antoninus Pius (158 - 161); after the Jewish revolution; treatment of Jews improved, 92,
Antony of Egypt (250 - 356), 116
apologiae, rational explanations, 102,
apologists, 103
- vs the evangelists, 103
- after Marcion jettisoned the Hebrew scripture, where were the Christian Jews to turn? 103
- Justin, 103
Babylonia, 98
Bar Koseba, see Simeon bar Koseba
Barnabus, 59
Basil,
Bavli, Babylonian Talmud, the text of rabbinic Judaism; gemara on the Mishna, 98+
Bavli, vs Yerushalmi, it seems Armstrong devotes much more space to the Bavli, 98+
bat qoi, voice from heaven, 88,
bereshit, first word of the first chapter of Genesis, in the beginning, 133
Caesarea in Cappodochia (329 - 379), 118
Cappadochian fathers, 119
Cassian, John (360 - 435), monasteries, 127
Charity, Chapter 5, 102,
Chebar canal, 10
Christianity, canon, no standard form, 66
Christianity, growth of, Chapter 5: Charity, 102+
- official religion, Roman Empire, 401 AD, 96
- after Marcion jettisoned the Hebrew scripture, where were the Christian Jews to turn? 103
- a gentile faith, 117
circumcision, 91
Cluny, 129
Constantine, conversion, 312 AD, 96, 102,
contemplatives, 119
conversions, born-again, 121
Crusades, 131
Dan, 12
Daniel, book of, 39
- composed during the Maccabean war, 40
Dark Ages, 128
demiourgos, creator of the universe, 66
Denys the areopagite, 119
deuteronomion, (second law, Greek), 21
Deuteronomists, pioneered the idea of scriptural orthodoxy, 22
divine economy, 105
dogma, expressed everything that could not be said, see kerygma, 118, could be said, 120
economy, Irenaeus, 104,
ekklesia (church), 59
ekklesia, John's, 75
energeiai, operations, as in God's operations, described in scripture, see ouisia,, 119
Enoch, First Book of, 45
eschatology, 60
evangelists, 103,
- vs apologists, 103
- relished their pesher exegesis
Essene movement, 44, 57
eyno, eyni, his eye, my eye, 87
Ezekiel, 90+
First Temple, destroyed 586 BCE, 65
gemara, commentary on the Mishna, 98
Gilgal, 13
Glossa Ordinaria, 132,
God, divine breath that organized the whole of reality, also called Pneuma ("Spirit"), or Logos (Reason), 103
Golah, exiles returning from Babylon, 30
Golden Rule, 71, 87
Golden Rule, relationship to meaning of Torah, Hillel, 82 - 83
Golden Rule, any midrash that spread hatred was illegitimate, 88
Gospel of Marcion, based on the epistles of Paul and an expurgate reading of Luke, 66
Gospel of Q, source of Matthew, Luke, did not survive, 66
Gospel of Thomas, 65
Gospels, the evolution of, 69+
Gospels, MMLJ, 65
Gospels, unknown who wrote them, circulated at first anonymously, 68
goyim, foreign nations, 29, 60
grammatikoi, 49
Gregory the Great (540 - 604), 128
Gregory of Nazianzus (329 - 391), friend of brothers Basil and Gregory of Nyssa, 119
Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395), brother of Basil, 119
halakha, legal ruling, 87
Hasmonean dynasty, 42
Hebraica veritas, the truth in Hebrew, 121
Hebron, 13
hesed, loyalty as opposed to love, 84
hermeneutic tradition of Plato, 107
hermeneutics, Origan, 111
hermeneutics, allegorical of Alexandria, 121
Hexapia: Origen (185 - 254), edition of the Bible beside five different Greek translations,108
Hilkiah, 21
Hillel, the great Pharisaic sage, returned to Jerusalem from Babylon, 82
Hillel, Yavneh rabbis were followers of Hillel, 83
Hokhmah, Wisdom, 36
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Hippo, fall, 430 AD, 126
Holiness Code, 25
Homer, 49
horoz, essential to rabbinic midrash, 84
horoz, compare shalom (Jewish temple experience); compare coincidenia oppositorum (Christian experience in pesher exegesis)
horoz, a "chain" that linked together quotations that originally had no link to each other, 84
hyponoia, Plato, higher / deeper thought
Immanu-El (God-with-us), 19, 68
Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons (c. 140 - 200), 66, 104
Irenaeus, Tanakh, 104
- Irenaeus: he writings of Moses were really the words of Christ, the eternal Logos, who had been speaking through him, 104
- Irenaeus, hypothesis (argument beneath the surface), 104
- Irenaeus, economy, 104
Jesus, incarnation of the "divine economy", 105
John, 47
Judah the Patriarch, see mishnah, 93
Justin (100 - 160), one of the earliest apologists, pagan convert, Samarian, martyr, 103
- Justin's notion of the Logos became central to the exegesis of the theologians who are known as the "fathers" of the church, because they created the seminal ideas of Christianity and adapted this Jewish faith ot he Graeco-Roman world, 104
kerygma, public teaching of the church, see dogma, 118
Kethuvim (the Writings, the older books), 35
- three books of the Kethuvim included Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs, 36
Lectio Divina, Chapter 6, 127+
Lectio divine, sacred study, 127+
logos, in the prologue to John's gospel, 103
Logos (Reason), divine breath that organized the whole of reality, also called Pneuma ("Spirit"), or God, 103
li-drosh (consult), 34
Marcion (c. 100 - 165); wanted to sever the link between Christianity and the Hebrew scriptures; felt Christianity a new religion, 66
Maximus the Confessor (c.580 - 662), Byzantine theologian, 120
meshiah (in Greek, christos), 56
messiah, title was crucial, 67
midrash, Chapter 4
midrash, the Yavneh rabbis exegesis of the Torah
midrash, derived from the word darash, to investigate, to seek, 81
midrash, every time a Jew confronted the Word of God in scripture, it signified something different, 81
midrash, reinterpretation, 81+
midrash, above all, must be guided by the principle of compassion, 82
midrash, Golden Rule, any midrash that spread hatred was illegitimate, 88
miqra, summons; a term for scripture as used by the Yavneh rabbis
miracles, Yavneh period, 88
Mishnah, 93
mishnah, learning by repetition, 93
mishnah, see Judah the Patriarch, completed about 200 AD, 93
mishnah, formidable collection of legal rulings, arranged in six Sederim ("orders"), 93
- Zeraim ("Seeds"), Moed ("Festivals"), Nashim ("Women"), Niziqin ("Damages"), Qodeshim ("Holy Things"), Tohoroth ("Purity Rules"), 93
- constructed like a temple, 94
- pedigree through the rabbis, 95
- mythos, 95
monasteries, 127
Muslims, 131
mysticism, discouraged after bar Koseba revolution, 92
mythos, 95
Neviim (the Torah and the Prophets), 35
New Testament, nearly all 27 books completed by the middle of the second century, 65
New Testament, evolution of, 66
New Testament, put Old Testament in new perspective; analogy between Talmud and Torah, 99
nous (Hebrew, Adam, natural reason), 49
Nursia/Norcia, central Italy, 127
On First Principles, Origen (185 - 254), a comprehensive account of Christian doctrine, 108
Origen, 108+ , 128
Origen (185 - 254); most influential and prolific author of the day; Hexapia, Against Celsus, and On First Principles, 108
Origen, Jesus was the beginning and the end of all exegesis, 108
ouisia, essence, as in God's essence, see energeiai, 119
paralipomena (the things omitted), the Greek name for the book of Chronicles, 36
pardes, a symbolic orchard, 90
parthenos (Septuagint translated almah as parthenos (virgin), 68
Paul, Tarsus in Cilicia, 60
pesher exegesis, 60, 68, 73
pesher, a spiritual discipline, rooted in grief and bewilderment, 73
Pharisees, 44
Pharisses, Matthew incensed by, 77
Philo, Alexandrian exegete, 49
Pirke Avoth ("Chapters of the Fathers), 95
Plato, 102, 107
Pneuma ("Spirit"), divine breath that organized the whole of reality, also called Logos (Reason), or God, 103
pistis, an act of trust by the disciples, 73
Pontius Pilate, 55
Psalter, 128
psyche (Hebrew, Israel, soul),50
qaddosh (holy), 19
quelle (German), Gospel of Q, source of Matthew, Luke, did not survive, 66
qilelat Elohim / qallat Elohim, the pain of God, 87
Qumran, library/community of, 43
Rabbis
Johanan ben Zakkai, leader of the Pharisees, last days of the siege of Jerusalem, 79
R. Johanan, R. Eliezer, R. Joshua, R. Akiba: Yavneh period, led, 80
RaSHI (1040 - 1105), Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhak, 133
Ben Azzai, a mystic, 90
Berachiah, a seventh-century Palestinian sage; compared rabbinic discusson to shuttlecock; back and forth discussions, 100
Rameses, 110+
Rome/Romans, Jewish revolution against, Koseba, 92,
- the fall of, 120
St Benedict of Nursia (480 - 543), 127
Second Temple Period, 55
sefer torah (scroll of the law), 21
Shammai, rival of Hillel, 82
Shaphan, the royal scribe, 21
Shechem, 13
Shepherd of Hermas, 66
Shekhinah, increasingly identified with christos, 73. 87,
Shekhinah, Yavneh period, 81;
Sifra, written in Palestine about same time as the Tosefta, tried to bring Jews back to Tanakh, 97
Simeon bar Koseba, revolution against the Romans, 92
Song of Songs, Yavneh period, Rabbi Akiba, 90
Song of Songs, popular in Alexandria; allegory, 107
sophia (Hebrew, Moses, wisdom), 50
Stoics, 103
symballein, symbol, 111
synoptics, 75
Talmuds, "study", 97+
Talmuds, two, 97+
Talmud, Jerusalem, Yerushalmi, completed in early 5th century in Palestine, 97
Talmud, Babylonian, Bavli, completed in Babylonia, at the time, Babylonia became the intellectual center of the Jewish world, 98
Tanakh, 93, 97
Tanakh, elaborate sign system, 104
TaNaKh, the Hebrew Bible, 92
- Torah, Neviium ("Prophets"), and Kethuvim (the Writings), 92
- chose more sober historical works, not the apocalyptic fantasies, 92
theoria, contemplation, 115, 120
tohu bohu, formless world, Genesis, 133
torah (Yahweh's teaching), 21
Tosefta, a supplement to the Mishnah, after Romans outlawed Judaism, 96
Tosefta, composed in Palestine between 250 and 350 AD
trepain, Plato, turn around, convert
Tzaddik, the Righteous One, Jesus' brother James, 46
Usha, see Sanhedrin, 87
- After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the Sanhedrin was re-established in Yavneh with reduced authority. The seat of the Patriarchate moved to Usha under the presidency of Gamaliel II in 80 CE. In 116 it moved back to Yavneh, and then again back to Usha.
Vulgate, 132
Yavneh period, 79+
Yerushalmi, Jerusalem Talmud, completed in early 5th century in Palestine, 97
Yerushalmi, studied the Mishnah, not the Bible, mitigated the Mishnah's proud independence of the
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