Deck 15: Jude-The Other Brother and His Eschatological Thinking-Jude

Question 1

Scripture is virtually silent about Jesus' interactions with his siblings.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Jude seems to draw on the teachings of Jesus more than does James.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

James is a sermon or speech in rhetorical form and was likely delivered orally to the audience.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Jude is possibly the earliest written book in the New Testament.

Question 5

Jude was likely Jesus' brother who was an itinerant Christian missionary who was married and traveled with his wife

Question 6

According to your textbook, in what decade was the epistle of Jude written?

A) 20s
B) 30s
C) 40s
D) 50s
E) 60s

Question 7

What does the epistle of Jude share with the epistle of James?

A) It was written by a half-brother of Jesus.
B) an eschatological flavor
C) an interest in noncanonical Jewish traditions
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 8

When it comes to New Testament epistles, we are best to think that . . .

A) they functioned much like modern letters.
B) they were written pseudonymously to command authority.
C) they were written anonymously for safety.
D) they were speeches in written form.

Question 9

Which of the following is peculiar to the epistle of Jude?

A) preference for the passive voice
B) use of the passive voice as a circumlocution
C) quoting from the Hebrew Bible
D) referencing noncanonical Jewish sources

Question 10

The brother of Jesus we know as Jude was in fact named . . .

A) Jacob.
B) Judas.
C) Judaios.
D) Judy.

Question 11

Who succeeded James as leader of the Jerusalem church?

A) Jude
B) Symeon
C) Peter
D) John

Question 12

When the writer of Jude says, "recall the predictions foretold by the apostles," he is indicating that he . . .

A) is not a part of the apostolic era.
B) is not among the apostles who founded the churches he is currently addressing.
C) is not himself an apostle.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 13

James writes to address the issue of . . .

A) false teachers.
B) slavery.
C) defining elders.
D) None of the above

Question 14

What reasons does Witherington propose as reasons for the possibility of false teachers slipping into church services and creating mayhem?

A) Christians had always been encouraged to welcome strangers and offer them hospitality in their homes.
B) Strangers with strange beliefs were seen as potential converts because of the evangelistic nature of Christianity.
C) Both a and b
D) None of the above

Question 15

The author of your textbook sees the relationship between the homilies of Jude and James as conceptually and structurally so similar as to indicate . . .

A) Jude's familiarity with the homily of James.
B) Jude's direct literary borrowing from the homily of James.
C) James's expansion of Jude's homily.
D) none of the above.

Question 16

The author of the New Testament document we call "Jude" was most likely . . .

A) Judas Iscariot.
B) Judas, the half-brother of Jesus.
C) Judas Maccabeus.
D) Mary Magdalene.

Question 17

Jesus' half-brothers, James and Judas, followed him . . .

A) from the day he announced his mission in the synagogue.
B) from the day he raised Lazarus from the dead.
C) after his resurrection.
D) secretly all their lives.

Question 18

Which of the following do the documents of Jude and James have in common?

A) general addressee
B) sizable presentation of deliberative proofs
C) series of warnings, first to opponents, then to believers
D) hymnic or doxological material
E) All of the above

Question 19

According to your textbook, the most important theological correspondence between Jude and James is . . .

A) the Holy Spirit as the One who sanctifies the believer.
B) Jesus as Lord who performs functions previously predicated of Yahweh.
C) Jesus as the Healer who restores the image of God marred by humanity's sin.
D) Jesus as the One who baptizes believers in the Holy Spirit.

Question 20

Jude appears to have a direct literary relationship with . . .

A) Colossians.
B) James.
C) 2 Peter.
D) all of the above

Question 21

The most surprising, and in some minds disturbing, feature of Jude is its . . .

A) reference to Jesus as "Lord."
B) failure to note the author's familial relationship to Jesus.
C) use of non-Biblical materials.
D) lack of reference to the Holy Spirit.

Question 22

Jude quotes verbatim a passage from the pseudepigraphical, apocalyptic book of . . .

A) 1 Esdras.
B) 1 Maccabees.
C) Baruch.
D) 1 Enoch.

Question 23

Jude makes reference to a dispute between the archangel Michael and Satan over the. . .

A) body of Abraham.
B) body of Moses.
C) Law of Moses.
D) command of circumcision.

Question 24

Describe what we know about Jude from the rest of the New Testament and in particular from the Gospel of Mark, and evaluate the contribution this knowledge makes to a correct understanding of his writing.

Question 25

Identify the situation of the readers of Jude, and suggest a date for the book.

Question 26

Discuss the implications of Jude's quotations from noncanonical Jewish sources