Answer the following questions briefly.
1. What is the origin of the term ‘medieval?
2. What did the Old Testament promise to the Jews?
3. Who was St. Peter?
4. Why was Jesus sentenced to death?
5. Why were the Jewish leaders hostile towards Jesus?
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Answer:
1) With its roots medi-, meaning "middle", and ev-, meaning "age", medieval literally means "of the Middle Ages". In this case, middle means "between the Roman empire and the Renaissance"—that is, after the fall of the great Roman state and before the "rebirth" of culture that we call the Renaissance.
2) You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. God promised to make Abraham the father of a great people and said that Abraham and his descendants must obey God. In return God would guide them and protect them and give them the land of Israel.
3) Saint Peter, also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, Cephas, or Peter the Apostle, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church. According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero.
4) According to the Gospels, the Sanhedrin, an elite council of priestly and lay elders, arrested Jesus during the Jewish festival of Passover, deeply threatened by his teachings. They dragged him before Pilate to be tried for blasphemy—for claiming, they said, to be King of the Jews.
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