Deck 1: An Overview of the New Testament

Question 1

The Septuagint became the standard biblical text for

A)East Indians.
B)Russian Orthodox Christians.
C)Muslims.
D)Jews throughout the Greco-Roman world.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What biographic detailed information about the life of Jesus is conveyed in all four Gospels?

A)Nothing is known about his birth and death; only his teachings remain.
B)His entire life is well detailed,including his formative years and how his education,associations,etc.influenced him.
C)Only the final week of his human existence (with the exception of his birth and a single incident during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem)and his public ministry are conveyed.
D)The first five and the last five years of his life are covered.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The practice of objectively investigating the oral traditions that preceded the written Gospels and the analysis of their final form,content,and structure is called

A)scriptural journalism.
B)divine judgment.
C)anthropological study.
D)biblical criticism.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What work was produced,according to legend,by seventy-two Hebrew scholars,divided into twelve groups of six,laboring for seventy-two days,and ultimately creating identical translations in isolation?

A)the Septuagint
B)the Pentateuch
C)Revelation
D)the Torah

Question 5

The "Passion" refers to

A)the feelings and desires of Jesus' life.
B)the suffering and death of Jesus.
C)the longing for the Parousia.
D)the zeal for fighting evil.

Question 6

The four Gospels are united in their emphasis of the value and significance of Jesus' ministry,death,and resurrection,thus forming the composite foundational document for the Christian religion.But,they are diverse in

A)their assessment of who Jesus was.
B)their authors' thoughts and responses to Jesus' ministry,death,and resurrection.
C)their methods of telling their readership where and how Jesus grew up.
D)the languages they were written in.

Question 7

What is the distinction between gospel and Gospel?

A)Uncapitalized,gospel is an oral message; capitalized,Gospel is a literary work.
B)Uncapitalized,gospel refers to non-Christian scripture; capitalized,Gospel refers to New Testament scripture.
C)Uncapitalized,gospel just means news; capitalized,Gospel means good news.
D)Uncapitalized,gospel is a style of music; capitalized,Gospel is any piece of literature that is true.

Question 8

Writing 600 years before the time of Jesus,Jeremiah prophesied that the Old Covenant would be replaced by

A)democracy.
B)self-rule.
C)the New Covenant,or "Testament."
D)the Mosaic Covenant.

Question 9

Which is not apocrypha (a deuterocanonical book)?

A)2 Maccabees
B)Esdras
C)Malachi
D)Judith

Question 10

Which are not examples of New Testament literary forms?

A)apocalyptic literature
B)the Gospels
C)narratives of the early church and the epistles
D)hymnals

Question 11

"Messiah" means

A)Holy One.
B)Anointed One.
C)King.
D)Wise One.

Question 12

Which religion believes that the Quran transmits the one true faith?

A)Buddhism
B)Judaism
C)Hinduism
D)Islam

Question 13

Christians believed that all the covenants and promises made to Israel throughout history were fulfilled by

A)Moses.
B)the work of the seventy.
C)the apostles.
D)Jesus.

Question 14

The "Fifth Gospel" (which was not included in the New Testament)was unlike the other Gospels in that it contains no mention of Jesus' miracles,his death,or resurrection.This book was written by

A)Mark.
B)John.
C)Thomas.
D)Luke.

Question 15

"Orthodoxy" means

A)correct teaching.
B)the mainstream view.
C)holy writings.
D)divinely inspired instruction.

Question 16

What did Christian leaders intend to do when they assembled at Nicaea in Asia Minor about 300 years after Jesus was crucified?

A)Plan a holy war against Islam.
B)Write an amendment to the New Testament to canonize non-Christian scriptures.
C)Decree that Jesus was more than a teacher and prophet,more than the Son of God but God himself.
D)Reevaluate the divinity of Jesus in light of that fact that he did not return as promised.

Question 17

Why do the Jews believe that they have exclusive property rights to Palestine?

A)It was theirs to begin with,before Rome conquered it.
B)According to Roman law,anyone who developed the land for more than three generations had legal rights to its title.
C)According to Genesis,God gave them this territory,calling it the Promised Land.
D)As the "chosen people" they believed that anything they wanted they could have,and God would support them.

Question 18

In what year did Roman armies destroy Jerusalem,the city and the Temple?

A)300 CE
B)122 BCE
C)1 CE
D)70 CE

Question 19

When New Testament authors refer to "Scripture" they mean

A)the Hebrew Bible,usually in the Greek Septuagint edition.
B)the Torah,usually in the New International Version.
C)the Pentateuch,usually in the American Standard version.
D)the apocrypha.

Question 20

An "evangelist" spreads

A)knowledge of good and evil.
B)rumors.
C)predictions of pestilence and plagues.
D)the "good news."

Question 21

Evidence that Jesus was the Jewish Messiah was gleaned from the Hebrew Bible.

Question 22

The Gospels were all written by Paul.

Question 23

Under the terms of the Mosaic Covenant,Israel swore to stop following the pagan god,Yahweh,and obey the one true God,Allah.

Question 24

The Torah is also referred to as the Pentateuch.

Question 25

The term "Messiah" means "Anointed One" and applied to all of Israel's kings.

Question 26

The eastern Mediterranean region during the time of Jesus was a progressive,technologically sophisticated metropolis whose inhabitants were open to the radical new teachings of Jesus.

Question 27

Alexandria,Egypt,was at this time one of the world's largest centers of literary and scientific research.

Question 28

Non-Christian religions also have scriptures.

Question 29

The eastern margin of the Mediterranean Sea was promised to Abraham's descendants by Yahweh,although by the time of Jesus it was controlled by Rome.

Question 30

The New Testament is homogeneous,with all 27 of its books written in the same genre.