Jewish Literature Summary

The Chinese Empire had always been more together than the Roman Empire, and each province being considered a part of the whole Empire, while Rome’s empire was run by a governor. In Rome, the political system was based on the relationship between the Senate and the Emperor. The position of the Emperor was not always hereditary. The Senate represented a opposition to the Emperor’s power. A province was typically watched over by a Governor and a small staff and army, making the Roman Empire almost colonial. However, under the rule of Hadrian, Rome would no longer be split up into these two distinctions.

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When you look back on history there were many defining religions, beliefs and values among different cultures and societies. The beliefs varied from believing in one single God to multiple gods, from being patriarchal to matriarchal. When discussing difference you can see numerous among the Ancient Hebrew culture and the Archaic Greeks. Greeks believed in multiple gods, the Olympians and the Chthonian whereas Ancient Hebrew’s believed in one God whose name shouldn’t even be pronounced it was so sacred. These two cultures perceived the world and their surrounds in a completely different way.

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The myths suggest that the three cultures (farmers, herders, and hunters), came from the three sons of Noah. Prior to that, in the myth of the First Family, there were two types of people, or two different cultures. There was Cain, who was a farmer, a tiller of the ground, and his brother Abel, who was a herder, or keeper of the flock. In a later myth we are introduced to Nimrod, who was a hunter, thus rounding out the three groups.

The theology of this religion was polytheistic, with the assumption that there were many different gods and goddesses. This is unlike many other religions, such as Christianity or Islam, which are monotheistic. There was an order of the deities, with Zeus having a certain level of control over almost everything, but he was not omnipotent. Though they were immortal, the gods were nowhere near all-good nor all-powerful. Everyone, even the Olympians, had to obey Fate. Unalike Egyptian Mythology, the gods looked and acted like humans. They interacted with mortals, and had many children with them.

Another evident difference between Rome and Han dynasty are political system and ruling ideologies that they adopted. In Rome empire, the supreme power is divided into three parts: the consuls, the senate and the people. Three main forces interact and counteract with each other to avoid the monarchy. The first part, the consuls are the master of all public affairs. They are the authority in the diplomacy. The senates are composed of the ambassadors introduced by the consuls. They take care and management of the public money and have the cognizance of all the

The consuls still ruled each of their individual provinces but with limited decision-making power as the emperor had foremost power over the people.

The Roman and Han rulers both used government officials to govern the provinces of their vast and powerful empires. An excerpt from The Letters of Pliny, Book X, was given. This book is a record of letters written by Pliny and letters received by Pliny. Pliny was a governor of the Roman

, they were polytheistic, meaning they worshipped more than one god. A lot of their gods were believed to control nature and be strongly influenced by the natural world. Rulers or emperors were also thought of as messengers of god and had rules forbidding the act of looking

During the Classic period, kings were generally in charge of a particular city and its supporting region. The area controlled by a specific king might be hundreds or even thousands of square kilometers. The ruler's court included palaces, temples and ball courts, and great plazas, open areas where festivals and other public events were held. Kings were hereditary positions, and, at least after they were dead, the kings were sometimes considered gods.

D:Administrators that present the central power and take out imperial code. They prevented the other satrapies of straying from their alliance to the Persians.

During the time of Jesus, Josephus claimed “there were five sects of Jews at the time of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, Zealots and Sicarii” (How Jews lived in Jesus time). These groups had their own way of interpreting the scriptures to fit their lives in present and in future.

The Sadducees believed that only the laws in the first five books of the Old Testament had to obey. They did not believe in the Resurrection; rejection of oral tradition; immorality of the soul; existences of a spirit world (Act23:8; Mark 12:18; Luke 20: 27). The Essenes are Jews by birth, and seems to have a better relationship with each other than the other sects have. They were highly apocalyptic with a stress on angels and the opposed temple

Many believe that there were many religions in this era. There were only two major ones.