REL 102 Test 2

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One of the most popular pagan authors of the second century, Plutarch, wrote fifty biographies of prominent Greek and Roman men. His main aim in these accounts was to:

Reveal their characters.

In what is most likely the original ending of Mark, when the women discover the empty tomb, they

Said nothing

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus' birth narrative parallels that of:

Samuel

"Synoptic" means:

Seen together

Synoptic means______.

Seen together

Why did God instruct Moses to have every Israelite family sacrifice a lamb and paint their doorframes with its blood?

So the angel of death would pass over those houses.

According to Mark, the messiah must:

Suffer and die

The most important and widely celebrated annual festival of Jews in Roman times, commemorating the Exodus from Egypt, is

Sukkot

The most popular scholarly resolution to the Synoptic Problem is:

The Four-Source Hypothesis.

At the end of Matthew's Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples to teach the gospel and baptize the nations. Scholars call this:

The Great Commission.

In John, Jesus tells the disciples that after he leaves:

The Holy Spirit will come to instruct them.

In Matthew, Jesus explicitly teaches against:

The Pharisees' hypocrisy.

Scholars refer to the first eighteen verses of the Gospel of John as:

The Prologue

Identify one discrepancy in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' crucifixion.

The account in Mark has it occurring at 9:00 a.m., while John's takes place after noon.

For Matthew, the core of the Law is:

The commandment to love.

Which traditional symbol is the Gospel author Mark associated with?

The lion.

The New Testament Gospels all have Jesus getting crucified at the same time of day.

false

From the beginning, Luke's Jesus expects to be:

rejected

Most scholars date the death of Jesus to about

AD 33 April 3

Matthew traces Jesus' lineage to:

Abraham

Name one of the people Plutarch wrote about.

Alexander the Great

The word "messiah" means _______ and is the exact equivalent of the Greek word ______.

Anointed one, Khristos

In the Gospel of Mark, to be a messiah requires the necessity of

Anointed with oil

In Mark, the Temple curtain rips:

At Jesus' death

What ritual was necessary for new converts to Christianity to undergo?

Baptism

John, the forerunner of Jesus, proclaims forgiveness of sins and performs:

Baptisms

Which of the following stories is only found in Luke?

Jesus teaching in the Temple when he is twelve years old.

Why, in the Gospel of John, does Pontius Pilate have to conduct the trial of Jesus through lengthy conversations between the prosecution and the defendant?

Because the Jewish leaders refuse to go into Pilate's residence, so they send Jesus in alone, leaving Pilate to go back and forth between them.

In order to understand a text, one needs to understand its genre, which may be defined as

Biography

At Jesus' trial in Mark, the Sanhedrin charges him with:

Blasphemy

According to Luke, Jesus' death itself:

Causes people to repent

Which of the following would an ancient reader of a biography not expect to find in the text?

Character development

What framework were ancient biographies often crafted within?

Chronological

In John, the signs are intended to:

Convince people of Jesus' true identity.

The Gospel of Mark begins with:

Jesus' baptism by John

Most scholars believe that Q contains mostly:

Jesus' sayings

The phrase "Jesus' Passion" refers to:

Jesus' suffering

_______ is not a synoptic gospel.

John

All of the following figures recognize Jesus in Mark except:

John The Baptist

The Gospel of Luke came to be attributed to a man who was thought to have been:

Paul's companion

The Christian mission was conducted primarily:

Person To Person

Which of the following occurs only in Matthew?

Pilate's washing his hands of Jesus' blood.

The Roman aristocrat who served as the governor of Judea from 26-36 CE, and who was responsible for ordering Jesus' crucifixion, was

Pontius Pilate

Ancient biographies are most concerned with

Portraying essential character traits

Pharisees were more prominent in Jewish life

True

Pieces of writing that share a range of conventions are classified together as a trope.

True

The Gospel of Mark presents Jesus as keeping his messianic identity hidden.

True

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke most likely used the Gospel of Mark as a source.

True

Oral cultures tend to:

Understand stories as changeable.

In its very earliest times, the Christian message most likely spread through

Word of mouth

Scholars estimate literacy in antiquity to have been:

10-15%

Scholars think Jesus died around:

30 C.E.

The Gospel of Mark was probably written around:

65-70 CE

When Jesus is baptized, the Spirit of God descends on him in the shape of:

A Dove

Although we cannot know for certain, many scholars believe Q probably did not contain:

A Passion narrative.

In first-century apocalyptic Judaism, the term "Son of Man" referred to:

A cosmic figure

According to Jewish thought, a messiah should

A descendent of King David

What is the term for a category of literature in which texts share a range of conventions?

A genre

In Luke, Jesus' public ministry begins with:

A sermon in a synagogue.

Redaction criticism is:

A study of how an author changes his source.

The emphasis placed on Jesus' death classifies the Gospels as:

A subgenre of the genre of ancient Greco-Roman biography

In John's community, the belief in Jesus' divinity probably:

Developed over time.

Scholars believe that the gospels were written

Different times 65-70CE=Mark 80CE=Luke & Matthew 95CE= John

Redaction criticism is a _______.

Editing

If genre criticism uncovers the same points uncovered by redaction criticism, then why use the redactional approach?

Editorial activity provides more empirical evidence for the aim of the text.

Ancient biographies focus on exactly the same things that modern biographies do.

False

Ancient biographies tended to portray the protagonist's character as constant rather than in a state of development.

False

Ancient biographies were constructed in a manner very similar to modern biographies.

False

Markan priority depends on the Four-Source Hypothesis.

False

Matthew's Jesus argues that keeping the Law is not necessary for those who believe in him.

False

Most scholars think the Gospel of John is more historically accurate than the Synoptic Gospels.

False

Redaction criticism is a form of reader-response criticism.

False

The Gospel of John emphasizes Jesus' power over demons.

False

The Gospel of Luke emphasizes the atoning power of Jesus' death.

False

The Gospel of Mark begins with Jesus' birth.

False

The Gospel of Mark was written within a decade of Jesus' life.

False

The Pharisees are responsible for Jesus' death in the Gospel of Mark.

False

To call oneself "messiah" and "son of God" was blasphemous in ancient Judaism.

False

The gospel of Mark is the ______ of all the gospels and, according to scholars, the ______ written.

First written

Scholars refer to Matthew's use of Hebrew Scripture to show Jesus is the messiah as:

Fulfillment citations.

What genre do the Gospels most closely fit?

Greco-Roman biography.

The Gospel of John was probably written in:

Greek

John calls Jesus the "Lamb of God" because:

He is killed on Passover.

The author says that:

He used written sources

Biographies written by Christians put a significant amount of emphasis on what event in Jesus' life, which was very unusual for ancient biographies?

His death

In John, Jesus' teachings focus primarily on:

His identity

The main problem of the reporter who read the Onion article about Congress leaving DC was his failure to understand

Humor/Genre????

In Matthew, John the Baptist:

Is hesitant to baptize Jesus.

When it is time for Jesus to die in Luke, he:

Is ready

Luke is different from the other Gospels because:

It has a sequel.

In Luke's temptation narrative, Jesus' final temptation is:

Jumping from the top of the Temple.

In Judaism, who could be called a "son of God"?

King, anyone close to god, Entire nation of Israel, and Ergo, in Judaism, a son of God is usually not divine—just like a messiah is not usually divine.

When Mark and Matthew tell the same story, Mark's story is:

Longer

L is defined as material that appears only in ______.

Luke

Of the following, the most important reason Matthew makes Jesus' identity public is to:

Make the Jewish leaders culpable for Jesus' suffering.

Both Matthew and Luke used _____________ as a literary source.

Mark

Matthew and Luke both used _____.

Mark

Most scholars believe that ____ was the first gospel written.

Mark

The "Four-Source Hypothesis" relies on the idea that:

Mark was written first.

Who assembled all the miracle stories dispersed throughout Mark into one large collection?

Matthew

In Matthew, Jesus' birth story is most reminiscent of whose birth?

Moses

Did the authors of the Gospels claim to be eyewitnesses to the events that they narrated?

No

Chapters 13 through 19, the second part of the Gospel of John, take place over:

One day

The Gospel of Matthew was probably written:

Outside Palestine around 80-85 C.E.

Which of the following sources was probably written to convert Jews?

The signs source

Which of the following methods seeks to uncover how a community's history affects the way it writes its history?

The socio-historical method.

In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus is

The son of god

How did pagan literature of the first century refer to the events surrounding Jesus?

There weren't any references made to him.

Ancient biographies were usually written for what main purpose?

To give instruction on proper behavior.

All the gospels agree on the day and time Jesus was crucified.

True

In Matthew, Jesus provides the true understanding of the Jewish Law and shows how it must be kept.

True

In the ancient world, books were almost always read aloud.

True

Jesus claims to be divine in the Gospel of John.

True

Jesus' genealogy in Luke is significantly different from the one found in Matthew.

True

Luke puts more emphasis on Jerusalem than the other New Testament Gospels do.

True

Most of the Sermon on the Mount comes from Q material.

True


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