NBST 610 Quiz 3
NBST 610 Quiz 3
Quiz Application, Gospels, Acts, Letters, and Revelation
- Match the following rhetorical terms often used with letters with their appropriate definitions. Tries to persuade or dissuade individuals concerning a future action Tries to convince an audience of the rightness or wrongness of a past action Tries to urge people to affirm a point of view by using praise or blame
- One of the examples discussed of an overspiritualized fanciful interpretation concerned:
- What did the color blue actually symbolize to the people of the Ancient Near East?
- Some of the Christians reading (or hearing) Revelation were compromising with the pagan world to avoid persecution.
- When we speak about the “author” of Scripture, we are speaking about both the human author and the divine Author.
- Revelation was probably written during the reign of emperor Nero.
- Our spiritual maturity affects our ability to hear the voice of the Spirit.
- Because New Testament letters are occasional, we must try to reconstruct the original situation that called for the letter in the first place.
- The students in the opening Bible Study were discussing which parable?
- What position did we take on interpreting Acts?
- In the New Testament we find more informal, personal letters as well as more formal letters.
- Theology should be based on the Bible’s total teaching and not on selected or isolated texts.
- For Klein et al. valid theology is only gained by a systematic reading of a text through a particular theological viewpoint.
- Which of the following best defines a letter that shows signs of the genre of an “exhortation letter”?
- As theological history, the book of Acts is not considered historical.
- Application of the principles of the Bible is important because Scripture repeatedly states that people ought to obey (i.e., apply) God’s word.
- In the New Testament, the word “gospel” comes from the Greek term euangelion and means “preaching” or “proclamation.”
- What does it mean that New Testament epistles/letters are “occasional”?
- Like the Gospels, Klein et al. claim that interpreters should read the book of Acts horizontally and vertically.
- According to Klein et al., which of the following best defines a letter that shows signs of the genre “diatribe”?