PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Babylonian Captivity, Ketuvim, Straight Edge
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Ancient near east: the region and the countries of antiquity that roughly correspond to what today we call the middle east, including egypt and the lands of mesopotamia in the region of the tigris and euphrates rivers. Apocrypha: a term that literally means hidden things. when applied to the. Bible, it refers to the books that are considered part of the canon of the old. Testament by roman catholic and easter orthodox churches, but not by the. Babylonian exile: a term that refers to both an event and a time period. The event was when the babylonians, under their king nebuchadnezzar, took the leaders of judah in to captivity in 586 b. c. e. Canon: from the greed work kanon, which means a ruler or a straight edge; the term came to designate any recognized collection of texts, such as the canon of the hebrew bible or the canon of the new testament.
