Transcript The Grandeur That Was Rome

TIME
BETWEEN THE
TESTAMENTS
PART II
The
Grandeur
That Was
Rome
Greeks & the Jews (323 – 165 BC)
•
Alexander’s
Empire
Divided
•
Seleucid
Kingdom
(Antioch) and
Ptolemaic
Kingdom
(Alexandria)
•
Septuagint
•
Greek names
in the New
Testament
Hasmonean Dynasty (165 – 63 BC)
• Antiochus IV
Ephiphanes
• The Macabees &
Hanakkuh (165 BC)
• Pharisees &
Saducees
• Jewish Kingdom until
63 BC
To Helen
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
The weary way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.
- Edgar Allen Poe
Rise of Rome (753 – 202 BC)
• Republic ruled by
the Senate
• Rivalry with
Carthage
• 2nd Punic War
• Defeat of Carthage
(202 BC)
Rome Turns East (202 – 63 BC)
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•
Rome
Conquers
Macedonia and
Greece
Seleucid &
Ptolemaic
Kingdoms fall
Herod the
Great
Every Shore of
Mediterranean
Sea
Republic to Empire (49 – 27 BC)
• Julius Caesar
Assassinated (44 BC)
• Roman Empire is
founded (27 BC)
• Pax Romana (27 BC
to 180 AD)
• Bread and Circuses
• Romans 5:6