Group 3

Group 3

Andrea, N º26
Cinta, Nº 20
Olga, Nº5
Maria, Nº 29.



by Andrea, Nº 26:


THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE LIFE OF JEWS IN PALESTINE

The Bible is a holy book, is divided into two parts: The Old Testament and The New Testament .

-The Old Testament is the first part, was written before the time of Jesus , tells the story of the Jews and was written by many different people.-The New Testament is the second part, was written after the time of Jesus and tells the story of Jesus and the first Chistians. It was written by only a few people.


Palestine is the holy land, is where Jesus lived all his life:

-Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
-Jesus grew up in Nazareth
-Jesus was baptisen in the river Jordan.
-Jesus met his first disciples at the sea of Galilee.
- And Jesus was put to death in Jerusalen.

The Jews, lived in Palestine, lived in small houses, the women and girls worked in the houses while the boys and men went to the sinagogue and worked in the field with the animals.
The Jews had two kind of religious building :

- The Great Temple in Jerusalen :was the most sacred building ,the Jews tried visit the Temple at least once a year. In the Temple there was an outer courtyard called the Court of Gentiles ,here the Jews changed money, bought animals for to used for sacrifices. The most sacred part of the Temple was the Holy of Holies, no one ,except the high priest was allowed to enter .The Temple was destroyed by the Romans en 70 CE .Part of one wall is that remains today.

- The Sinagogues in every towns: was a metting place for the Jewish community , every weeks , the Jews prayed and listened to the Scriptures on the Sabbath.The sinagogue was small ,the women entered by one door and went upstairs to a gallery, the men and boys wente in another door and remained downstairs in the main part of the building.The Scrolls were kept in a especial place called the Ark ,there was in front a light burned that rememberd to the Jews that God was always with them, almos there was a special candle calle Menorah.

The religious groups of the Jews were:

-The Pharisees: were holy men and rejected the romans .

-The Zealots: used the violence to force the romans out of the Palestine .
-The Sadduces: formed the Sanhedrin and accepted roman rule.
-The Essenes: they left Jerusalen and lived in the dessert , they rejected roman rule.

The history of the Jews covers a period of almost 2000 years, from the Abraham, Jacob, Moses, King David to the time of Jesus:

- God calls to Abraham to lead his people from the city Ur to the Canaan.
- Abraham’s grandson Jacob moves the family to Egypt ,that are treated as slaves.

- Hundred years pass, the God chooses Moses to lead the Jews.In the Mount Sinai God gives Moses the laws , the ten commandments, the Jews promise to obey the law of God and they are led into Canaan.

- The Jews establish a kingdom and David becomes king of all Israel. His son Solomon build a great temple.
- Then a crisis occurs and Jerusalem is attacked and the people are deported to Babylon as slaves.
- Now in exile ,the begin to pray together on the Sabbath and try to follow again God’s law.
- The Jews return to Jerusalem but the country is invaded by the Romans. The Jews wait the Messiah who will lead them to freedom.
In The Old Testament the Prophet is someone who speaks to Jews about God’s law, they told to the people that God will send a great leader that the Jews called to him “MESSIAH”.
Today the Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah but the Jews believe that the Messiah has yet to come.

CONCLUSION:
After writing this piece of work i think that the jews always have been invaded by other countries, this is why the waited and they wait for a messiah who is the boss that will help the jews to be free. Also the Judaism is very important because it was the bases of other religions. Like the christianity and the islam.


BIBLIOGRAPHY:

The religion book
http://www.google.com/ (imagenes)




by Cinta, Nº 20:

The Messiah
In the Old Testament a prophet was a holy person who had a special job to do. A prophet was a spokenperson for God. All the prophets told the Jews that if they obeyed God’s Law, then God would look after the. They would live in peace in their own country forever. Today christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah and Jews believe that the Messiah has yet to come. For hundreds of years before the Birth of Jesus, the Jews expected a Messiah to come to their aid.

The New Testament
For Christians the Good News is that Jesus is God. The Good News is written in the gospels. The gospels are the first four books in the New Testament in the Bible.
The Evangelists
The gospels were written by Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. They are called the four evangelists. An evangelist was a person of great faith who firmly believed that Jesus is God. The gospels were written to help people everywhere to have a deeper faith in Jesus. The word “gospel” means “good news”. For Christians the Good News is that Jesus is God. The story of Jesus is told in the four gospels in the New Testament. They focus in particular on his teaching, healing, death and resurrection. In the New Testament, the evangelists tell the story of Jesus from different points of view.
His suffering side in Mark.
His teaching side in Matthew.
His caring side in Luke.
His holy side in John.
This are the three gospel stages:
Stage 1 – The Life stage
Jesus teaches and heals people in the last three years of His life.
He is crucified and dies on the cross.
Jesus is raised from the dead after three days, and appears to His disciples.
Stage 2 - The Oral stage.
The apostles believe that Jesus is God.
They travel far and wide to TELL the Good News.
Stage 3 – The Written stage.
The apostles, the main witnesses of all Jesus said and did, were getting old.
Jesus’ story must be written down before it is too late.
The evangelists, Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, WRITE the story of Jesus in the four Gospels.
The first three gospels are very alike.
The gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke are sometimes called the Synoptic Gospels.
Documents of Faith
A gospel is a particular type of writing. A gospel is a document of faith.
A gospel is unlike any other type of writing. Sometimes it is compared to a history book or even a biography.
However a gospel is not a history book about Jesus.
A gospel is a document. A document provides written evidence about something important.
Mark, Matthew, Luke and John wrote their gospels with a special purpose in mind. They set out to show that Jesus is God.
They looked at eye-witness reports of his:
Teaching
Miracles
Death and
Resurrection.
A gospel therefore is a type of writing that:
Tells the facts about Jesus.
Explains the meaning of the facts.
Invites the reader to believe in Jesus.



Documents of History.
Some history books were written a long time ago. Two documents in particular were written almost 2.000 years ago, at the time of the Roman Empire.
Most of what we know about Jesus comes from the New Testament in the Bible. Other information comes from historical documents written at the end of the first century CE.
There are two sources of information about Jesus.
Christian sources.
Non-Christian sources.
Jesus had a dream. He had a vision of a perfect world. Jesus began to follow his dream from the day he was baptised. John baptised Jesus in the River Jordan.
Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is found in people.
Jesus said the Kingdom of God arrived in Him.
Jesus told parables to show how God treats those who lose their way in life.


Conclusion

Christianity is very big and we can always learn a bit more of it. In this work I have learn a lot of things and not only about Christianity, also about other religions. I think that everybody have learn something doing this work, even not only about religion.

Bibliography

-http://santojudastadeo.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/sagrado-corazon-de-jesus.jpg
-http://www.google.com
-http://www.google.es
-http://www.newadvent.org/
-http://www.vatican.va/
-http://www.catholic.net/
-http://www.graciasdios.com/JesusMisericordioso2.jpg
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by Olga, Nº5:

THE GOOD SAMARITAN

One day Jesus was teaching in a small town. Afterwards, someone came up to Jesus and asked,"Who is my neighbour?". Jesus answered by telling the parable of Good Samaritan. The parable shows that one's neighbour is everyone, the people we like, and people we don't like.The parable of the Good SamaritanOne day a Jewish man travels alone the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. A local gang saw him coming. They attack him and take all his money. They leave him lying on the side of the road. The poor man is unable to move.Some local people in a great hurry. They are on their way to the Temple in Jerusalem. They pass the injured man, but they ingored him. They don`t want to get involved. Then a Samaritan man comes by. The Jews and the Samaritan don`t get alone. The Jews have always looked donw on the Samaritans. They tread them at outsiders. The Samaritan stops and goes over to see what is wrong. The injured man turns and groans. Straight away the Sameritan gives him first aid. Then he carefully lifts him onto his donky and brings him to the nearest inn. He stay up all night caring for him. Before he leaves the next day, the Sameritan gives the innkeeper some money. "Make sure this poor man gets everything he needs."he says." if it cost any more just let me know. I will be back to see how he is later on."As Jesus finished the parable the person behind him. "Who do you think acted in a neighbourly way to the man who was attacked?" "The person who was king to him", was reply.
The Samaritans

The Samaritans were people who came from Samaria. Samaria is a province of Palestine. The Samaritans were Jews, yet other Jews throughout Palestine looked down on them. Both groups lost touch with each other long before Jesus' time. During the Exile the people from Samaria were over looked. They were not sent to Babylon like everyone else. When the Jews finally returned from Exile they discovered a lot of changes had taken place in the absence. The Samaritans had mixed freely with Gentiles. Now their customs, their scripture and their religious practices were different to those of other Jews. People thought they were not real Jews anymore, so they rejected them, and would have nothing more to do with them. By Jesus' time the Samaritans were despised by everyone. They were treated as outsiders by the rest of the Jewish commumity in Palestine.Bartimaeus sat in his usual place by the roadside. Bartimaeus was blind. Local people paid little attention to him. He was known simply as Baer-Timaeus. Bartimaeus heard a group of people coming toward him. He had been told about Jesus the healer. He had always wanted to meet him. He knew Jesus would listen to him. They told him to keep quiet. But Bartimaeus shouted even louder. When Jesus heard him, he stopped and called him over. Jesus listened carefully as Bartimaeus told him what he wanted to be able to see. The blind man knew Jesus had the power to heal him. "Go, your faith has made you well," Jesus said, and he gave Bartimaeus back his sight. The man was amazed. He looked at Jesus and decided there and then to follow him. The miracle changed his life.

Conclussion

I think this is a good project because you learn a lot of things of the rest of the world, not only the religion of each country, also their customs.

Bibliography

The religion book

http://www.newadvent.com/

http://www.google.com/ Images

by María, Nº29:

THE LAST SUPPER
Passover is the most important festival in the Jewish year. It celebrates the time long ago and the Passover meal is always the high point of this festival, because it helps the Jews remember what happened with their ancestors at the very first Passover.

The moment of the eucharist is when jesus and his disciples were in Jerusalem for the Jewish festival of Passover. Jesus believed that the Sadducees were going to have him arrested, yet him wanted to share to Passover meal with his disciples.
That evening Jesus hosted a Passover meal for his friends and picked up the bread. He said a prayer of thanks to God. Then he broke the bread and gave a piece to each disciples saiying, "This is my body".
Then Jesus took a cup of wine. Again he said a prayer of thanks to God. He handed the cup to each of them and said, "This is my blood". Looking around at all of them he said, "Do this in memory of me."
Jesus gave the Passover bread and wine a new meaning. The bread was his body that would be broken for them. The wine was his blood that would de spilled for them. In this way Jesus connected the Passover meal with his own death.
The disciples did not fully understand the meaning of Jesus' words and actions. They did not realise that Jesus was about to die for them. They thought that Jesus had come to Jerusalem to become king. Later the disciples went to the Mount of the Olives.

Sacrifice
It was only after the death and resurection of Jesus that the disciples fully understood the meaning of his words and actions at the Last Supper. Jesus tried to tell them that his death would not be an ordinary death. His death would be a sacrifice.

Jesus is arrested
On Thursday evening after dark Jesus, Peter and some of the disciples met at the Mount of Olives. He left them and went off by himself. Suddenly there was a noise and bright torchlight all around them. Judas had arrived. He went over to Jesus and greeted Him with a kiss.
The disciples got ready to fight, but Jesus stopped them. Jesus said to the Sadducees"You come here now under cover darkness, I was in the Temple every day, you didn't arrest me then!"

Conflict with authority
Late on Thursday night Jesus was brought before the Sanhedrin, the Jewish court of law. Jesus stood in front of the high priest. The High Priest asked "Are you the Messiah, the Son of God? so you say"Jesus replay. The High Priest was shocked. It was blasphemy for anyone to claim he was equal to God. It meant Jesus had broken the Jewish law. The Courth of the Sanhedrin gave their verdicked. Jesus was found guilty of blasphemy. They say he should be put to death. But the Sanhedrin did not had the power to excecute anyone. Only Pilate, could execute offenders, so they took Jesus to him.

Conclusion:

I think that religion doesn't means only your religion, also means other religions in the world like: judaism, hinduism, budism...In this work that i've done, i have learned things that I didn't knew of Jesus, like the part that says: conflict with authority.

Bibliography:

The religion book and an English dictionary.