REL 102 Test 2
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