NBST 515 Quiz 1
NBST 515 Quiz: The Study of the New Testament
- According to Elwell, a canon is an authoritative collection of documents.
- According to the presentations, reading the Gospels “vertically” means to read each of the four Gospels individually as a “solo,” rather than as a “quartet” of voices.
- According to the presentations, the “temptations” of Jesus by Satan are more properly understood as “trials.”
- According to Elwell, Jesus was sent to Pilate, Herod Antipas, and then back to Pilate before being crucified.
- According to Elwell, the earliest description we have of the Gospels as books, referred to as “memoirs,” comes from
- According to Elwell, most Jews who believed in the Messiah believed that he would defeat the Romans and make Jerusalem the center of the world.
- According to Elwell, the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures are called
- According to the presentations, while the four Gospels differ in some of the details of Jesus’ resurrection, they all agree that the risen Jesus first appeared to women.
- According to the presentations, the first Christians were Jews who had come to believe that Jesus of Nazareth was Israel’s long-awaited Messiah.
- According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews are believed to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls?
- According to Elwell, our primary source of information about the Jewish Roman War of AD 66-70 was composed by
- According to Elwell, New Testament theologians call the preached gospel the “kerygma.”
- According to Elwell, the single most important idea unifying Jews had to do with their relationship to God and their own sense of uniqueness in the history of the world.
- According to Elwell, the New Testament tells of the fulfillment of what the Old Testament promises.
- According to the presentations, the Jewishness of early Christianity is most pronounced in which New Testament book?
- According to the presentations, “a sabbath day’s journey” was the distance one could travel on the sabbath day without violating the commandment to keep the sabbath.
- According to Elwell, Jesus and most of his hearers were unfamiliar with the Old Testament.
- According to Elwell, all four Gospels associate Jesus with the ministry of John the Baptist.
- According to Elwell, for Jews living outside of Palestine, the synagogue was the chief unifying institution.
- According to Elwell, the Dead Sea Scrolls were the sacred library belonging to which Jewish sect?
Set 2
- According to Elwell, we should study the New Testament because
- According to Elwell, first-century Judaism was primarily a way of life rather than a set of
- According to Elwell, the Hebrew Scriptures were eventually divided into three sections: the Torah, the Prophets, and the
- According to the presentations, the “radical wing” of the liberal group, the Pharisees, was likely the
- According to Elwell, the earliest description we have of the Gospels as books, referred to as “memoirs,” comes from
- According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews are believed to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls?
- According to Elwell, which disciple did not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he actually saw him?
- According to Elwell, after the resurrection, Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene and no one
- According to the presentations, the Pharisees believed that God, at Sinai, gave Moses two Torahs, one written and one
- According to Elwell, Jesus was sent to Pilate, Herod Antipas, and then back to Pilate before being
- According to Elwell, the Christian Bible is divided into two sections, the Old Testament and the New Testament, with some modern Bibles containing a third section called the apocryphal or deuterocanonical
- According to Elwell, the group of 10 cities, most of which were on the eastern side of the Jordan River and granted a large measure of self-governance by the Romans, were known as the
- According to the presentations, Judaism, in the first century AD, was a monolithic religion comprised of a single group in which all Jews believed exactly the same
- According to Elwell, Jesus and most of his hearers were unfamiliar with the Old
- According to Elwell, the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures are called
- According to Elwell, the Sea of Galilee is 1290 feet below sea
- According to the presentations, while the four Gospels differ in some of the details of Jesus’ resurrection, they all agree that the risen Jesus first appeared to
- According to the presentations, the Sadducees accepted all parts of the Hebrew Bible as
- According to Elwell, most Jews who believed in the Messiah believed that he would defeat the Romans and make Jerusalem the center of the world.
- According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews denied the belief in the afterlife and the resurrection of the dead?