Group 1

Antonio Nº2 1ESO C
Manuel Nº15 1ESO C
Carlos Nº7 1ESO C
Paco Nº4 1ESO C
Life in old Palestine
-What do they do at the day?
The mornings in Palestine are always busy. They roll the sleeping mats and put them away. Then they look at the animals. After that they have breakfast of bread and cheese with same of fruit. When breakfast is over the boys go to school at the synagogue. After the school finish the boys work with his fathers the rest of the day. The girls stay at home with her mother. They tidy, clean and go to the well for water. Later they go to the market to do shopping. Then they leave the house to go for walking through the narrow street to the market square. Some times, they pass through the carpenter who is sawing and hammering wood. They sell chests, doors and shelves.
-Where do they life?
In Palestine the houses of ordinary people where simple in design.

Each house was small. They had only one window and one door. The walls where painted on white to reflect the heat of the sun, the windows were small to keep the house cool and the surface was often strong enough to walk on.
The inside of the house was dark, cool and very crowed. The one of the house were divided in two parts. The family lived on a raised platform at one of the ends.
Ancient Judaism
The history of Jews covers a period of almost 2000 years from the time of Abraham to the time of Jesus.
Note: Over the country where the Jews lived has been called:
The Promised Land, Canaan, Palestine, Israel.
Over the years the Jewish people have been known as:
God´s chosen people, Hebrews, Israelites, Jews.
History of Judaism
God called Abraham to lead his people from the city of Ur to the land of Canaan.
Hundreds of years pass, then God chose Moses to lead the Jews out of slavery in Egypt.
Judges and prophets were sent to lead them in ways of God. The great warrior was David and his son Solomon built a great temple in Jerusalem where everyone could go to worship .
SYNAGOGUE
In the time of Jesus there was a synagogue in all of the towns of Palestine. The synagogue was a place where Jews people meet. They went to pray and listen to the scriptures.
The synagogue was a plain two-story building. It was small, holding between fifty and one hundred people at a time. Inside there were two doors. The women entered through one of the doors and went upstairs to the gallery. Men and older boys went in another door and remained downstairs in the main part of the building.
During the Sabbath service there were prayers and hymns. Then a Rabbi, a teacher, read from the scroll of Jews scripture. After that they give a talk about the readings. The scrolls were treated with a lot of respect because they were the Word of God for the Jewish people.
The scroll is found in a special part in the synagogue called the Ark. A curtain was drawn in front of the ark, and a light burned near the ark.




The Messiah

In the old testament was a holy person who had special job to do.
A phrofet who said the word of God.
In the old testament there were many phrofet. Some of the more famous phrofet were: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah and Ezekiel. The jewish people believe that the phrofet express the wort of God.
In the old testament the phrofet: reminded to the jews about God's law. They said the jews what would happend to them in the disoveyed Dod's law.
The phrofet told to the jeus if they obeyed the law of God, them God would look after them. They would live in peace in their own country forever, the jeus wanted peace. They had sufferd souch a long time.
To many armies had invaded palestine. Such as, the persians, the greeks, and now the roman rulld palestine. The use wanted their freedom. They thoght that they needed a lider to set them free.
The profet set people tha God said that is was going to send a great leader.The jews people cold the lider the Messiah.The word Messiah means the anointed one.
Long ago all great lider were anonited, or blessed, whit oil. To be anointed with oil was a singn that a person was sent by God to do good work. When king David was a young boy he was anointed with oil.
The jews thougth tah the Messiah would be strong and powerful like king David.The Messiah to be a king.They expectate to be a great warrion that would lead them to freedom.In a free country they would be proud jewis nation ones more. The phrofet said to the people to get feady for the coming of the Messiah.Today, Christians believe that jesus is the Messiah, jews sing that the Messiah need to come.

The Evangelist

In the new testament , the evangelist had write the story oh jesus from diferent points of view.
The Gospel in the news that Jesus in God. The Gospel were written for christians that lived in the Roman Empire in the first Century. Each community had is own problems. The evangelist emphasised certain aspect of jesus life and teaching to met the needs of each comunity.
We needs to remember to we have for gospel ans only one Jesus. The evangelist show us different sides of jesus.
Mark was a jew that convert him self in a Christian.He knew Peter the desciple. He often to told to Mark about Jesus. Mark listened carefully and wrote down everything than Peter said about Jesus.
Mark gospel was written about 70CE. It was written specially for new Christians in the sity of Rome. In that time Mark was very worried about them, the were suffering a lot at the hands of the Romans.
Mark wanted to say them that Jesus understand their suffering. Jesus is God, and he suffered too. He was crucified and died on the cross.
Luke is a Christian, but he used to be a gentile.He trained as a doctor. When he heard about Jesus he was impressed by the way he healed people.
His gospel was written around 85CE. It was written for Christian living in Corinth.
They also had been Gentiles like him.He understood how felt.
Mattheu is a Christian, but I used to be a jew.He worked as a rabby.
His gospel was written around 85CE. It was written for new Christians in the city of Antioch.He teach that Jesus is the Messiah. He thougth he helps to point out links beetwen Jadaism and Christianity.
John gospel was written around 95CE. It was written for Christian in the city of Ephesus.




Ancient Judaims

The history of the Jews covers 2000 years from the time of Abraham to the time of Jesus. The story happened in Egypt, Jesulasem, Haram and Babilom .
Ancient Judaims:
God calls Abraham to lead his people from the city or Ur to the land of Canaan.
A famine breaks out in Canaan and Abraham's grandson Jacob moves the family to Egypt. At fisrt they are welcomed as guest, but are later they were trated as slaves.
Hundred of years pass, ten God gives Moses the laws an the ten commandments.
Then jews promise to obey the law of God.
They are led into the land of Canaan.
Judges and phrofets are sent to lead them in the ways of God.The jews establish a kindong and David becomes king of Israel. He was a great warrior and tries hard to keep is people in faith with the laws of God. His son Solomon builds a great temple in Jerusalen where everyone can go to worship God.
After Solomon's death the kindong was divided. The people fall into wicked ways and fail to keep the covenant. God seds prophets to remind them to keep the promises.
A crisis occurs and Jerusalem was attacked, the temple was destroyed and the people were transported to Babylon an they convers them into slaves. Later, the jews made a mistake; the had deliberaty turned away from God.
When the jews were free the returned to Jerusalem and they reconstruted the temple.
The synoptic Gospels

The firts three gospels were very alike. The gospels of Mark, Mathiew and Luke are somethimes called the synoptic Gospels.

Synoptic:

The word synoptic means "can be seen together side by side".
When the three gospels are lined up side by side it's clear that they share a lot in common:
-They told the same story about Jesus .
-They ordered the events in the same way.
In some cases the three gospel equal that they could have be copied from one another.In truth, that is what probably happened.
Mark's gospel was written first. It was weitten for Christians that were Rome.Mark's gospel based on the apostol teaching about Jesus.It's the shortest gospel. It contains 661 verses.
Twenty years after Mark, the gospels of Matthew and Luke appeared. Mathiew wrote in the city of Antioch. Luke wrote in the city of Corinth.
The two evangelist used Mark's gospel as the basis of their work.Matthew borrowed six houndred six of marks verses, when Luke used three houndred twenty verses from Mark.
The Q Document:
When we look closer we can see that the gospels of Matthew an Luke are much longer than the gospel of Mark. This form a question "where did the extra information come from?" Bible experts think that most of it come from a document called "Q". The "Q" documents is a collection of Jesus sayings that were written down before.
Only Matthew and Luke used the "Q" document. Mark didn't used at all. Such as Jesus, sayings about the "true happiness", which are somethimes called the beatitudes.

The Fourth Gospel:
the synoptic gospel are very similars. However, the fourth gospel is different. It's not one of the synoptic gospels.
John writted in a different style. His written is much harder to understand, its more complex.
John used different sources when he was writting is gospel, he didn't used Mark, He didn't used the "Q". John used different sources. Another ete witnesses who told him about the life, death and the resurrection of Jesus.
In sumary, Matthew had many different sources than the other gospels.



The Holy Land

Jesus lived in Palestine. A small country beside the mediterranean see. The country where Jesus lived now is called Israel. It is also know as the Holy Land.
Palestine is about a quarter the size of Irland. There is snow capped mountains in the north, and a desert area in the south. In between, there are low hills a fertile valleys. The weather in Palestine is usually very hot during the day, but it can get cold at night. Palestine is divided into three regions or provinces that are Galilee, Samaria and Judaea. It has two lakes that are the See of Galilee and the Dead See. The main river is the Jordan. The biggest city is Jerusalem. Some small towns are Nazareth, Cana, Capernau and Bethsaida in the North and Bethlehem, Emmaus, Jericho and Bethany in the south.
Jesus was born in Bethlehem, he grew up in Nazareth. He was baptised in te river Jordan. Jesus thaugth people in Capernaum. He met his first disciple at the See of Galilee and Jesus was put to the death outside the city of Jerusalem.

Homes in Palestine
In Palestine the houses of people were of simple in design because it only had one door and one window. The wall of the houses were built of mud and plaster. The houses were painted of white to reflect the sunrise. The window was very little to keep cold the house. The roof of the house was flat and stronger enough to walk on it. You can get to the roof by a stairs outside the house. A family might have donkey a goat son cheap and few chiken. The floor of the house was bare earth covered with rushes. Every jewish house had an oil lamp. It was place on a lam stand and was always lit, day and ninght. Oil for the lamps was stored in a pottery jar. At the night all the family slept on mats on the floor, at the morning the mats were royed up anestored in a corner. The inside of the house was dark, cool and very crowed.The house was divided in two parts.The family lived in a raised platform. The animals lived in the low part of the house,which was call stable. They were all brought in at night and their feed was put in a manger. At the morning, the animals, were again out of the house. Most houses had a chest.
All the family came together to eat. After washing their hands . The meal became with a blesing .Everyone pick de food of a long table
No cutlery was used. The bread was broken and divided among everyone. During in the meal the father of the family told stories from jewis scripture. The family meal ended with a blessing.
This houses were very different to the actual holy land houses. In the actual house don't live animals except company animals. Actually, in the house there not an oil lamp.

The New Testament
For Christians the good news is thas Jesus Is God.
Evangelist:
The gospels were written by Mark, Mathiew, Luke and john.They are call the four evangelist. An Evangelist is a person of great faith. The four Evangelist couldn't keep God news to themselves.They felt they had to tell everyone what they believed.
The firts gospel was written by Mark. Mark, Matthew, Luke and John wrote their gospel in the firts century CE.
The evangelist wrote the four gospels in the New Testament.
Their written were for Christian communities in different parts of the Roman Empire.
Gospel:
The word gopel meens God news.Jesus story is told in the four gospels in the New Testament.
Some of the gospel beging more or less in the birth of Jesus.
The gospels focus in particular on his teaching, healing, death and resurrction.