New Testament Tquiz
Jesus' last words on the cross in the Gospel of Mark are:
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
Scholars estimate ancient literacy is the best of times to have been:
10-15 percent
How many books are there in the New Testament?
27
Scholars think Jesus died around:
30 C.E.
In what year did Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria named the current twenty-seven books of the New Testament as authoritative?
367 C.E.
We currently possess about how many manuscripts of New Testament?
5,700
The Gospel of Mark was probably written around:
66-70 CE
The Gospel of Mark was probably written around:
70 CE
The Jewish response to Antiochus Epiphanies' actions was:
A Maccabean revolt
Which of the follow does not take place immediately before Jesus' trial and crucifixion in the Gospel of John?
A Passover meal with the disciples Jesus predicts his betrayal
In first-century apocalyptic Judaism, the term "Son of Man" referred to:
A cosmic figure
A redactor is:
A editor
In non-Christian Jewish circles, the term "Son of God" referred to:
A person especially close to God
In the story from Mark of the woman who finds Jesus' tomb empty and are instructed by a young man (or angel) to go tell Peter and the other disciples (Mark 16), the last twelve verses were
Added to the Gospel of Mark by a scribe
Who lived about the same time as Jesus, was reported to have had a life and death similar to Jesus, and was considered by his disciples to be the Son of God?
Apollonius of Tyana
Why do most scholars think that Q was written document?
Because there are long stretches of verbatim agreement between Matthew and Luke
At Jesus' trial in Mark, the Sanhedrin charged him with:
Blasphemy
The term "cult" means:
Care
Which of the following represents an intentional scribal error?
Changing the test to fit doctrine
What was the physical sign of the covenant between ancient Jews and God?
Circumcision
Which codex is the most valuable—because it includes all twenty-seven New Testament books, as well as the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepard of Hermas?
Codex Sinaiticus
In John, the signs are intended to
Convince people of Jesus' true identity
In John's community, the belief in Jesus' divinity probably:
Developed over time
By Jesus day, most Jews lived inside Palestine.
False
The New Testament Gospels all have Jesus getting Crucified at the same time of the day.
False
Of the four New Testament Gospels, Mark was probably written
First
Which was probably the first book of the New Testament to be written?
First Thessalonians
The New Testament was written in what language?
Greek
The author of the gospel of Mark probably spoke:
Greek
Which of the following best describes Jesus in the Gospel of John?
He is pre-existent and divine
In Mark, what is Jesus' response to his impending death?
He seems to doubt his mission
The spread of Greek culture and language is known as
Hellenization
In John, Jesus's teachings focus primarily on:
His identity
How is the Wall Scroll unique among scientists Jewish literature?
In its graphic and detailed description of the future battle that will end the age
Where was Q finally discovered?
It is still hypothetical
The Gospel of Mark begins with
Jesus' baptism by John
The phrase "Jesus' Passion" refers to
Jesus' suffering
Which of the following groups thought it was blasphemy to call Jesus God
Jewish-Christian adoptionists
Which Gospel was probably written last?
John
All of the following figures recognize Jesus in Mark except
John the Baptist
Gnostics believed which of the following is necessary for salvation?
Knowledge
In which Gospel are we informed that the author, as well as other Gospel authors, acquired his information from Christians who had told stories about Jesus?
Luke
Which early Christian group believed in two Gods: the disobedience-punishing God of the Old Testament and the merciful God of Jesus and Paul?
Marcionites
Both Matthew and Luke used _____________ as a literary source.
Mark
Who assembled all the miracle stories dispersed throughout Mark into one large collection?
Matthew
The argument of "sequence of the narrative" suggests:
Matthew and Luke follow Mark's sequence of stories
According to Mark, Jesus is from
Nazareth
The story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (John 7:59-8:11) is:
Not an original part of any Gospel
Which of the following is least helpful criteria for establishing the original test of the New Testament?
Number of Manuscripts
When individuals wished to know private direction of a god, they visited a(n):
Oracle
The Marcionites particularly liked which of the following apostles?
Paul
Who is the earliest of the New Testament writers?
Paul
Which one of Jesus' disciples comes closest to recognizing Jesus' identity in Mark?
Peter
The Roman who convicted Jesus is:
Pilate
Stoicism, Platonism, and Epicureanism all involved the exercise of:
Reason
Greco-Roman religions incorporated which of the following?
Sacrifice
The sect of Judaism that wielded the most political power was the
Sadducees
In Mark, when Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Salome discover the empty tomb, they:
Say nothinh
"Synoptic" means
Seen together
Matthew and Luke
Sometimes change Mark to change theological emphasis
An alternative place of worship (to the Temple of Jerusalem) where Jews came together in the community to discuss the sacred traditions of the Torah was called a(n):
Synagogue
In John, Jesus does all of the following to show his divine nature excelt
Teach in oarabled
The most popular scholarly explanation of the Synoptic Problem is:
The Four-Source Hypothesis
After chapter 12 in the Gospel of John, Jesus decides not to preach publicly because
The Jews reject him
Scholars refer to the first eighteen verses of the Gospel of John as
The Prologue
In the Gospel of John, Jesus is explicitly called all the following except:
The Suffering Servant
Identify one discrepancy in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' Last Supper
The account of Mark states it occurs as the Passover Meal, while John's account states that Jesus' Last Supper occurred the night before Passover.
What feature typically accompanied the storied of religious or powerful political figures in ancient Greco-Roman biographies?
The miraculous
The Johannine Christians most likely were excluded from the synagogue because:
The tried to proselytize other Jews
Gnostics thought the true God was not the God of the Old Testament
True
Magic was big business in Roman Empire
True
No two existing ancient manuscripts are precisely alike
True
Roman cults were generally tolerant of one another, whereas philosophical schools tended to be intolerant of other philosophies.
True
The "Torah" and the "Pentateuch" refer to the first 5 books of Hebrew Scripture.
True
The Essenes produced the Dead Sea Scrolls.
True
The Gospel of Mark consistently portrays Jesus as misunderstood.
True
The Gospel of Mark presents Jesus as keeping his messianic identity hidden.
True
The New Testament Gospels were written anonymously.
True
The Née Testament authors, when they referred to the Old Testament, they quoted the Greek Septuagint, not the Hebrew scripture.
True
We do not have the original copy (autograph) of any New Testament book.
True
The earliest copyists of the New Testament were
Untrained scribes
According to the Jewish-Christian Adoptionists, Jesus was
a righteous man
John, the forerunner of Jesus, proclaims forgiveness of sins and performs
baptisms
Why are the Dead Sea Scrolls so valuable?
because they are nearly a thousand years older than the oldest copies of the Hebrew Scriptures that we previously had
When Jesus is baptized, the Spirit of God descends on him like a:
doce
When Mark and Matthew tell the same story, Mark's story is
longer
The term, "canon" come from the Greek work that originally meant
ruler or measuring rod
According to Mark, the messiah must:
suffer and die
What is the Greek root of the word "heresy"?
to choose
Polytheism is the:
worship many gods