New testament quiz 1

How many books are there in the New Testament?

27

In what year did Athanasius name the current twenty-seven books of the New Testament as authoritative?

367CE

Who lived at 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

Which of the following represents an intentional scribal error?

Changing the text to fit doctrine

As Alexander the Great conquered lands across Palestine, Persia, and around the Mediterranean, he promoted the use of Greek language and culture throughout his large domain. This process, called ____________, had a great impact on the New Testament and on the Roman Empire.

Hellenization

The spread of Greek culture and language is known as:

Hellenization

Which of the following indicates a particular reading in a manuscript is most likely earlier than other options?

It is a more difficult reading.

Which event is found in some copies of the Gospel of Luke but not in others?

Jesus' ascension. Jesus' saying "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing" Jesus sweating blood

Which of the following groups thought it was blasphemy to call Jesus God?

Jewish-Christian adoptionists

Which early Christian group believed in two Gods: the just God of the Old Testament and the merciful God of Jesus?

Marcionites

Which of the following thought Jesus' body was a phantasm, merely the appearance of a body but not real flesh and blood?

Marcionites

In the story of Jesus in the last minutes before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane (Luke 22:43-44), the account of his "sweating blood" while contemplating his imminent suffering is most likely:

Not an original part of any Gospel but added by a scribe

The story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (John 7:59-8:11) is:

Not an original part of any Gospel, but added by a later scribe

Jewish Christians thought which of the following was a heretic?

Paul, because he taught that Christ made the Law unnecessary

The Marcionites particularly liked which of the following apostles?

Pual

The term "canon" means:

Rule, ruler, measuring rod

These were the Jews during Jesus' day who were the "power players" in Palestine, cooperating with the Roman authorities.

Sadducees

What is the style of writing called that leaves out punctuation, capitalization, paragraph divisions, sentence divisions, and spaces between words?

Scriptio continua

What is the name of the academic discipline devoted to the study of ancient manuscripts to determine the most likely earliest readings?

Textual criticism

How did the ancient Jews feel about keeping the Law embodied in the Torah?

They considered it a great joy.

Second-century Jewish Christians taught that every Jewish law had to be observed except:

animal sacrifice

Which of the following was NOT unique to Jewish religion?

animal sacrifices

Jewish-Christian adoptionists believed that Jesus was "adopted" by God at his:

baptsim

The term "cult" means:

care (of the gods)

What was the physical sign of the covenant between ancient Jews and God?

circumcision of males

"Diaspora" means _____________.

dispersion (of Jews away from Judea)

The Romans destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 50 CE.

false

According to the Jewish-Christian adoptionists, Jesus was:

just a man

What does the term "gnosis" mean?

knowledge

The word epistle means:

letter

How many original copies of books of the New Testament do we have?

none

Which of the following was a characteristic of ancient religions (with the exception of Judaism)?

polytheism

An alternative place of worship (for diaspora Jews who weren't near the Jerusalem temple) where Jews in the community came together to discuss the sacred traditions of the Torah was called a(n):

synagogue

The Septuagint is:

the Hebrew Bible translated into Greek

Some Gnostics believed that which of the following happened at Jesus' baptism?

the divine Christ entered his body

Greco-Roman religion was very tolerant of others' gods; that is, there was no sense that one group's gods were real and another group's false, or that a person needed to convert to certain gods in favor of others.

true

The Greco-Roman world had a number of miracle workers and human/divine beings who were called the Son of God (Apollonius of Tyana is one example).

true

When New Testament writers quote the Hebrew Scripture (the Old Testament), they are quoting from the Septuagint.

true