Deck 18: A Beloved Sermon and Two Elderly Letters-13 John

Question 1

1-3 John are best viewed as pastoral letters from an apostle to his apostolic delegates.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

According to your textbook, identifying an author by "style" is risky because authors intentionally created a style to match the rhetorical purpose of their document.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

A hyperbole is a form of minimization concerning a certain matter. It is intended to be taken literally.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Docetism involves first and foremost the denial of the Trinity

Question 5

Which of the following is actually not a letter?

A) 1 John
B) 2 John
C) 3 John
D) Philemon

Question 6

According to your textbook, 1 John is best viewed as a . . .

A) letter.
B) Gospel tract.
C) sermon.
D) discipleship manual.

Question 7

1-3 John are most likely written to . . .

A) church leaders.
B) Jewish Christians.
C) Gentile Christians.
D) heretical teachers.

Question 8

According to your textbook, what is the most likely destination for the Johannine epistles?

A) Ephesus
B) Rome
C) Alexandria
D) Corinth

Question 9

Key topics in 1 John include . . .

A) the Godhead and the Christian.
B) the Christian and the Godhead.
C) Christian discipleship.
D) All of the above

Question 10

What is the clearest criterion underlying the ordering of the Johannine epistles in the New Testament canon?

A) Chronology
B) authorship
C) length
D) destination

Question 11

According to your textbook, who is responsible for the contents of 1 John?

A) John the Apostle
B) John the Elder
C) John of Patmos
D) Lazarus

Question 12

According to your textbook, who is the source of the material found in the fourth Gospel?

A) John the Apostle
B) John the Elder
C) John of Patmos
D) Lazarus

Question 13

According to your author, who was the collector and final editor of the materials in the fourth Gospel?

A) John the Apostle
B) John the Elder
C) Lazarus
D) None of the above

Question 14

What term best describes a literary device in which one uses a sort of parallel construction to focus on key points?

A) Chiasm
B) hyperbole
C) epideictic
D) rhetoric

Question 15

The author's self-identification as "o presbyteros" can mean . . .

A) "the elder" (leadership role).
B) "the old man."
C) "the older man."
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 16

According to your author, what is the intended sense of "o presbyteros" in 2-3 John?

A) "the elder" (leadership role)
B) "the old man"
C) "the older man"
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 17

In which of the following is it apparent that the author is an eyewitness of some sort?

A) 1 John
B) 2 John
C) 3 John
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 18

According to your textbook, how many people were involved in the composition of the Johannine epistles?

A) One
B) two or three
C) a Johannine school
D) None of the above

Question 19

According to your textbook, the warning to stay away from idols (1 John 5:21) . . .

A) addresses Gentiles who were tempted to go back to pagan temples and dinner parties.
B) warns Jewish Christians not to follow man-made gods.
C) Both of the above
D) None of the above

Question 20

What genre of Biblical literature do the Johannine epistles exhibit?

A) Prophecy
B) Wisdom
C) historical narrative
D) law

Question 21

What prompted the writing of these Johannine documents?

A) Porous boundaries amongst congregations
B) Differing views of Jesus
C) Both a and b

Question 22

Which of the following is true regarding the relationship between the Johannine epistles and the fourth Gospel?

A) The ideas found in the fourth Gospel are developed more fully in 1 John.
B) The ideas found in 1 John are developed more fully in the Gospel of John.
C) There is no recognizable development of ideas between 1 John and the fourth Gospel.
D) There is no discernable relationship between 1 John and the fourth Gospel.

Question 23

According to your textbook, the Johannine epistles are primarily . . .

A) polemical.
B) pastoral.
C) practical.
D) penal.

Question 24

With regard to the Johannine Epistles, which of the following has Gentile ethnicity?

A) Author
B) Audience
C) Schismatics
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 25

1 John bears how many obvious epistolary elements?

A) four
B) three
C) two
D) one
E) none

Question 26

1 John is what type of rhetoric?

A) forensic
B) deliberative
C) epideictic
D) All of the above

Question 27

3 John was written to address the problem of . . .

A) requiring Gentile Christians to be circumcised.
B) sexual immorality.
C) idolatry.
D) rejection of traveling missionaries from the Johannine community.

Question 28

Repetition of words or thoughts in reverse order is called . . .

A) parallelism.
B) syllogism.
C) interlocution.
D) chiasm.

Question 29

1 John contains the largest clustering of what kind of language anywhere in the New Testament?

A) Legal
B) Levitical
C) love
D) Liturgical

Question 30

1 John speaks to the issue of loving . . .

A) the world in general.
B) non-Christians.
C) fellow believers.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.

Question 31

In 2 and 3 John, the author identifies himself as . . .

A) an apostle.
B) the elder.
C) the bishop.
D) a servant.

Question 32

In 2 John "the Elect Lady" and her children most likely were . . .

A) a Christian Lady and her family.
B) a local church and the Christians belonging to it.
C) a high-society woman in the Roman court and her servants.
D) the city of Jerusalem ("daughter of Zion") and her inhabitants.

Question 33

3 John is addressed to . . .

A) Diotrephes.
B) Demetrius.
C) Gaius.
D) Erastus.

Question 34

Gaius is commended for his . . .

A) high morality.
B) enduring persecution.
C) orthodoxy of doctrine.
D) Hospitality

Question 35

Identify the addressees of 2 John, and give a synopsis of the author's message to them.

Question 36

Name the key figures in the ecclesiastical dispute with which 3 John deals, and describe their roles.