Ancient Empires of the Bible: The Greeks
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The People of the Biblical World Understanding the People of the Biblical World One of God’s “Rosetta Stones” for Understanding God’s Word
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Understanding the People of the Biblical World
One of God’s “Rosetta Stones”
for Understanding God’s Word
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The Greeks
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d Genesis 10NoahJaphethJavan
2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
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d An Oversimplified Timeline of the Bible (+ or - 100 years)
2000 BC
Abraham
1500 BC
Moses
1000 BC
David
500 BC
Babylonian Captivity
4 BC
Birth of Jesus
Mycenaeans Greeks
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d Mycenaean Language
Linear B
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The Dorians
(Sparta)
The Ionians
The Aeolians
A New Language• The Greeks
modified the Phoenician alphabet which is very similar to Hebrew.
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d The Archaic Period
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d Greeks in Italy•By the 8th century B.C. the Greeks populated southern Sicily.
•By the 7th century B.C. they had a presence throughout the southern coast of Italy as well.
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Persian Empire
The Battle of
Marathon
490 B.C.
The Battle of
Marathon
490 B.C.
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The Greek
Phalanx
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The Battle of Thermo-
pylae 480 B.C.
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The Battle of Salamis 480 B.C.
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d With the Persians defeated, the Greek city states returned to their normal pattern of…
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The Peloponnesian
War
431 BC – 404 BC
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The Corinthian War
395 BC – 387 BC
Rise of Phillip II
of Macedon
359 BC
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Phillip II of Macedon
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Alexander the Great
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“Here is the man who was making ready to cross
from Europe to Asia, and who cannot even cross
from one table to another without losing his
balance.”
Map of Macedon at the Time of
Philip’s Assassination by Pausanias –
336 B.C.
The Battle of
the Granicus
River334 B.C.
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The Battle of Issus –
333 B.C.
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The Legend of the
Gordian Knot
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dThe Alexandrian Solution
Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
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Cassander
Antigonus “One Eye”
Lysimachus
PtolemySeleucus
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The Hellenistic Period – 300 B.C.
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Daniel 820 As for the ram that you saw with the two horns, these are the kings of Media and Persia. 21 And the goat is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
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Daniel 822 As for the horn that was broken, in place of which four others arose, four kingdoms shall arise from his nation, but not with his power.
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dHow the Hellenistic Greek Period
Paved the Way for the NT
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dHow the Hellenistic Greek Period
Paved the Way for the NT
A Common Old
Testament
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dHow the Hellenistic Greek Period
Paved the Way for the NT
Many Jewish
outposts arose.
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d Practical Lessons
•From the Greek Dark Ages we learn that life has its ups and downs.
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d Hosea 61 “Come, let us return to the LORD;for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.
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d Hosea 63 Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
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d Practical Lessons
•From the Classical Greek Era we learn the danger of infighting.
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d James 41 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
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d Practical Lessons
•From Alexander the Great we learn the limits of personal ambition.
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d Ecclesiastes 61 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: 2 a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil.
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d Practical Lessons
•From Alexander’s generals we learn the ugliness of greed and the lust for power.
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d•Crateras – crushed under Eumenes charging horse.
•Perdiccas – murdered by his own officers.
•Eumenes – executed by Antigonus.
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d•Lysimachus – killed in hand to hand combat with Seleucus.
•Seleucus – Killed by Ptolemy’s eldest son.
•Antigonus – Killed by the armies of Seleucus and Lysimachus.
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d •Of Alexander’s Seven Power-hungry generals, only Antipater and Ptolemy died old men of natural causes.
•They spent the majority of their adult lives battling their one time compatriots.
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d Other People we need to know: The Romans
