Deck 9: Paul-Outlines of the Life and Letters of the Apostle

Question 1

In all likelihood, Paul's epistles were in circulation before the Gospels.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The portrait of Paul that we get in Acts is quite a bit different from the portrait of Paul that we get through his own letters.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Rhetoric was not a part of ancient higher education.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

In antiquity, public speaking was actually one of the sports that comprised the Olympic games

Question 5

According to the traditional reckoning, how many letters did Paul contribute to the New Testament?

A) 13
B) 10
C) 8
D) 7

Question 6

How many of Paul's letters were written to non-Christians?

A) 5
B) 3
C) 1
D) 0

Question 7

About when was Paul born?

A) 4 B.C.-A.D. 2
B) A.D. 5-10
C) A.D. 10-15
D) A.D. 15-20

Question 8

Paul was born in . . .

A) Jerusalem.
B) Caesarea.
C) Tarsus.
D) Athens.

Question 9

In Paul's first postconversion visit to Jerusalem, he met privately with whom?

A) the twelve apostles
B) Rabbi Gamaliel
C) Jesus' biological family
D) Peter and James (Jesus' half-brother)

Question 10

According to your textbook, Paul's "thorn in the flesh" was probably . . .

A) his opponents in Galatia.
B) occasional bouts of depression.
C) an eye problem.
D) a marred appearance from beatings.

Question 11

What church served as Paul's base of operations from which he launched his missionary ventures?

A) Jerusalem
B) Antioch
C) Alexandria
D) Bethlehem

Question 12

Judaizers were . . .

A) Sadducaic Jews who sought to prevent Gentiles from converting to Judaism.
B) Sadducaic Jews who sought to convert Gentiles to Judaism.
C) Pharisaic Jews who sought to convert Gentiles to Judaism.
D) Pharisaic Jewish Christians who insisted that Gentile Christians follow Mosaic regulations.

Question 13

What co-worker/s accompanied Paul on his first missionary journey?

A) Barnabas and Mark
B) Silas and Timothy
C) Silas
D) Timothy

Question 14

The "trinity of Paul's identity" is reflected by which of the following?

A) male, Jew, Pharisee
B) Roman, Jew, Christian
C) Jew, Pharisee, Christian
D) Roman, Pharisee, Christian

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT true?

A) Only Roman citizens had the right of legal appeal to the emperor.
B) Beheading as capital punishment was usually reserved for Roman citizens.
C) Roman citizenship could be purchased with capital or by special labor.
D) Sadducees rejected Roman citizenship.

Question 16

What was Paul's attitude toward Roman citizenship?

A) He often mentioned it because people were more apt to accept his Gospel if they respected his social status.
B) He didn't mention it because it would make his potential converts jealous.
C) He mentioned it only in dealings with Romans or people who worked for Rome in judicial matters.

Question 17

What was Paul's attitude toward his Jewish heritage?

A) He rejected it altogether for the sake of the Gospel.
B) He tended to mention it only in polemical situations.
C) He made it a platform for his evangelization.
D) He believed it put him on a higher spiritual level than Gentiles.

Question 18

What is meant by the "new perspective on Paul"?

A) emphasizing Paul's role as a pastor rather than an evangelist
B) considering Paul's Gospel from the perspective of the mystery cults
C) viewing Paul as an apostate Jew
D) understanding Paul's caveats against "works of the law" to refer exclusively to those boundary-defining rites of circumcision, food laws, and Sabbath keeping that especially distinguished Jews from Gentiles

Question 19

What was Paul's view of the Mosaic covenant?

A) It played an important but temporary role that ended when Christ came.
B) Neither Jewish nor Gentile Christians are obligated to abide by it.
C) It was not compatible with faith in Christ for salvation.
D) Christians can learn from it, even though they are not bound by it.
E) All of the above

Question 20

Paul's experience on the Damascus Road should be seen as . . .

A) a prophetic calling.
B) a genuine conversion.
C) both of the above.
D) none of the above.

Question 21

The sum total of fixed ideas, concepts in a person's mental world that are "givens," not debated, but taken for granted, are denoted by . . .

A) "presupposition."
B) "predisposition."
C) "preunderstanding."
D) "symbolic universe."

Question 22

What term best describes the reality of a collectivist culture where group identity is primary and individual identity is secondary?

A) Primary personality
B) Incorporative personality
C) Collectivist corroborative personality
D) Individualism

Question 23

Which of the following is the best understanding of "rhetoric" in Paul's day?

A) political bombast
B) using figures of speech rather than literal language
C) flowery language, not restrained by truth, designed to humiliate an opponent or to manipulate someone to follow the speaker's desired course of action
D) the science and art of speaking or writing in such a way as to persuade the hearer or reader to the speaker's/writer's belief or behavior

Question 24

The practice of spreading Greek culture and language and architecture and habits is known as . . .

A) democratizing.
B) Hellenizing.
C) Grecography.
D) none of the above.

Question 25

The domain of deliberative rhetoric was . . .

A) law court.
B) public assembly.
C) funerals.
D) none of the above.

Question 26

The domain of forensic rhetoric was . . .

A) law court.
B) public assembly.
C) funeral.
D) none of the above.

Question 27

Which of the following "stories" is NOT one of the stories that predominately shaped Paul's narrative worldview?

A) The story of God
B) The story of God's people
C) The story of Jewish Messiah, Jesus
D) The story of the tower of Babel

Question 28

What does N.T. Wright argue is the key to understanding the ancient worldview of ancient persons?

A) culture
B) stories
C) geography
D) sociology

Question 29

Which type of rhetoric did Paul most frequently employ?

A) forensic
B) deliberative
C) epideictic
D) None of the above

Question 30

Which of the following was not a component of ancient rhetoric?

A) Logos
B) Philos
C) Ethos
D) Pathos

Question 31

Which component of ancient rhetoric had to do with the speaker's character?

A) Logos
B) Philos
C) Ethos
D) Pathos

Question 32

Witherington argues that Pillipians and Romans can be categorized as . . .

A) Deliberative rhetoric
B) Epideictic Rhetoric
C) Forensic
Rhetoric
D) Incorporative Rhetoric

Question 33

Where does Saul travel after his Damascus Road conversion and his visit to Damascus?

A) Arabia
B) Spain
C) Jerusalem
D) Corinth

Question 34

Which of the following best describes Paul's handling of theology and ethics in his letters?

A) He divides his letters almost in half, with the theology in the first half and the ethics in the second half.
B) He restricts himself to one or the other, depending on his audience's situation.
C) He intertwines theology and ethics throughout.
D) None of the above

Question 35

Explain the threefold nature of Paul's identity. Which part of his identity seems most dominant to you?

Question 36

What is rhetoric? Why was it important in an oral culture?

Question 37

Which most shaped ancient communication-letter conventions or rhetorical conventions? Why?

Question 38

How and why do stories function in an individual's worldview?

Question 39

What were the major stories Paul assumed and draws on in his theologizing and ethicizing? Assess the contribution that each of the five major stories that inform Paul's symbolic universe makes to Paul's understanding of the Gospel