New Senior Secondary Curriculum

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New Senior Secondary Curriculum

• Ethics and Religious Studies
• Christianity
• Work Shop on newly introduced
• Political and Social Background

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Work Shop Schedule

• 1 Reasons for the new introduced topics
• 2 Hellenization
• 3 Discussion on teaching suggestions

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Political and Social Background

• Hellenization (Today)
• Maccabees/Maccabeans (Tomorrow am)
• Roman Occupation (Tomorrow pm)
• Reasons or Significances for these topics?

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Reasons I

• I) 4 Understandings to Christianity
• 1 Conceptual
• Systematic Theology
• Doctrine/Dogma
• 2 Historical development of its
• Institution (Itinerants ? Biggest Organization)
• Expansion (Jerusalem ? Samaria ?Mediterranean
  cities ?Europe ?All peoples)

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Reasons I

• 3 Textual
• New Testament
• Old Testament Hebrew Bible
• Concept of Canon
• Canonization (-ve screening) other literature?
• 4 Background
• Religions have their own context
• political
• sociological
• philosophical, cultural, historical

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Reasons II

• II) Existing Situation of the Curriculum in HKCEE
• textual approach to OT NT (other 3 aspects
  omitted) the context of the text!
• Lack of a clear direction and position in
  understanding Christianity
• OT itself is the Hebrew Bible

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Reasons II

• Christian Faith NT OT only indirectly (some
  NT thought based on OT context, e.g. Sabbath,
  Cleansing, Redemption by sacrifice, etc.)
• Christian Faith two context/background
• - Judaism (cultural and religious)
• - Political and Social World

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Reasons III

• III Some examples of the significance
• 1. NT period under Roman governance, NT was
  written in Greek, but not Latin or Hebrew
• 2. Groups (HighPrist, Herodians, Pharisees,
  Sadducees and Zealots Essenes) never appeared
  in OT Where/how did they come from? Who were
  they?

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Reasons III

• 3. Herode be call a king (Mk 614 ) or Tetrarch
  (Lk 97)?
• 4. Distinction Jews and Israelites?
• 5. What is Judaism and its origin?

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HellenizationBrief Historical Background

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HellenizationBrief Historical Background

• BCE
• 1) 586 Exile to Babylon (Judea)
• 2) 537 Jews back home
• 3) 515 Temple rebuilt (Haggai Zechariah)
  -(theme Obedience Temple)
• 4) 334 Alexander the Great (died 323, age 32)
• 4 dynasties Egyptian (Ptolemaic)
  Syrian (Seleucid)

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HellenizationBrief Historical Background

• 5) 320-200 Judea Colony of Egypt
• 6) 198 Syrian gt Palestine , Greek- culture ?
• ? Jewish conservatives Hasmoneans
  on Religious freedom
• i) Means Sadducees
• ii) End Pharisees

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HellenizationBrief Historical Background

• 7) 167 Dec
• Selecuid-Antiochus Epimanes (???-??? /
  ???????,???? / ??????(Antiochus IV) ? Egypt, but
  lost
• a pig ? temple, on return
• Jews ? killed on Sabbath
• Feast of Dedication (Joh1022)
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• Revolt Maccabeans (Mattathias - Judah - Jonathan)
  vs. Syrian Empire

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HellenizationBrief Historical Background

• 8) 142-63 80 years of independence
• 9) 63 Conquered by Romans
• 10) 37 Herod the Great (whole Palestine,
  entitlement king)
• 11) 4 Archelaus S Palestine
• Philip N NE Palestine
• Antipas Galilee, Perea
• (All were tetrarchs)

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HellenizationBrief Historical Background

• CE
• 12) 66 Roman entered
• 13) 70 Temple Jerusalem destr.
• 14) 74 Masada, final fortress lost
• 15) 1948 Restoration of the Israel

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• All this political situation actually shaped the
  framework of the whole NT background and thought
  behind.

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Hellenization III Teaching Suggestions

• Discussion
• 1. Content as lecture
• 2. Teaching Purpose
• 3. Teaching Strategy