Historicity of the Gospels - Quiz
A) His feeding of the five thousand and his sermon on the mount B) His baptism by John the Baptist and his crucifixion by order of Pontius Pilate C) His walking on water and his resurrection D) His birth in Bethlehem and his transfiguration
A) Sui generis phenomena B) Strictly chronological history C) A sub-set of ancient biography D) Purely ahistorical myth
A) Graham Stanton B) Rudolf Bultmann C) M. David Litwa D) Richard Burridge
A) Alan Kirk B) M. David Litwa C) Charles Talbert D) Craig S. Keener
A) Perfectly accurate and stable B) Completely fictional and creative C) Weak and prone to frequent misguidance D) Irrelevant to historical research
A) Proving the inerrancy of the manuscripts B) Determining the theological agenda of the authors C) Analyzing the literary style of the writers D) Deciding the wording closest to the original text
A) They are purely theological inventions B) They are strictly limited to oral tradition C) They are superior to those for Alexander the Great D) They are less reliable than those for Julius Caesar
A) Social contagion mapping B) Form criticism C) Textual inerrancy D) Recurrent attestation
A) Memories are always an exact reflection of the past B) The Gospels contain no historical memories at all C) The authors never intended to describe real events D) Memories in the Gospels can contradict and are not always historically correct
A) They were innovators who heavily modified the traditions B) They kept no record of the ministry of Jesus C) They were preservers who sought to transmit rather than create de novo D) They intentionally distorted the teachings for power
A) It ignores the role of the Old Testament B) It is decontextualized from the real world C) It relies too heavily on biblical manuscripts D) It is biased toward conservative theology
A) It is considered more reliable than previously thought B) It is viewed as the only historical gospel C) It is viewed as identical in style to the Synoptics D) It is viewed as completely fictional
A) Reliability is only possible if the author is neutral B) Agendas were not present in ancient biographical writing C) Reliability does not depend on a lack of agenda D) Any agenda automatically invalidates the history
A) The written manuscripts found in the Dead Sea Scrolls B) The literal interpretation of every gospel word C) The archaeological evidence from 1st-century Judaea D) The memory of Jesus recalled by the earliest disciples
A) The study of memory as a theological evolution B) The study of the natural environment of the Galilee C) Research that considers memory in real-world contexts D) The preservation of texts in arid climates
A) Latin B) Koine Greek C) Aramaic D) Hebrew
A) Latin B) Classical Hebrew C) Koine Greek D) Aramaic
A) Symbolic myths B) Theological allegories C) True D) Literary inventions
A) Jens Schroter B) Bart Ehrman C) Chris Keith D) Helen Bond
A) Whether the event is mentioned in multiple independent sources B) Whether the event was embarrassing to the early church C) Whether an account conflicts with known historical facts or cultural practices D) Whether the text contains original Aramaic roots
A) Irenaeus B) Chris Keith C) Tatian D) Justin Martyr
A) Paul the Apostle B) Tatian C) Irenaeus D) Justin Martyr
A) 14 B) 24 C) 54 D) 27
A) 14 B) 54 C) 27 D) 24
A) One tenth B) Two thirds C) One quarter D) Half
A) Psalm 1 B) Psalm 22 C) Psalm 119 D) Psalm 23
A) All but three B) None of them C) All of them D) Only half of them
A) Matthew B) Luke C) The Q source D) John
A) St. Peter B) St. Luke C) St. Paul D) Mark the Evangelist
A) Maurice Casey B) Adam Winn C) William Wrede D) Nicholas Elder
A) Syria B) Jerusalem C) Egypt D) Rome
A) The Epic of Gilgamesh B) The Aeneid C) The Elijah-Elisha narrative D) The Gospel of Thomas
A) 100–110 AD B) 60–70 AD C) 40–50 AD D) 80–90 AD
A) Rome B) Antioch C) Jerusalem D) Alexandria
A) Josephus B) Tacitus C) Diodorus Siculus D) Herodotus
A) Kloppenborg B) Adam Winn C) Maurice Casey D) Michael Kok
A) 700 B) 320 C) 606 D) 500
A) 200 B) 320 C) 450 D) 606
A) 637 B) 661 C) 861 D) 200
A) 637 B) 200 C) 661 D) 400
A) 661 B) 200 C) 100 D) 637
A) M B) Q C) The Passion Source D) L
A) About a decade later B) About a decade earlier C) Two centuries later D) At the same time
A) Speeches B) Prayers C) A passion story D) Calls for judgement
A) Burkett B) Powell C) Goodacre D) Strecker
A) Rome B) Antioch C) Galilee D) Jerusalem
A) The Two-Source Hypothesis manual B) Strecker's Palestinian Hypothesis C) Powell's 1998 study D) Goodacre's Case Against Q
A) They are the primary focus of study B) Support is increasing C) Support has largely faded D) They have been proven true
A) 92 percent B) 25 percent C) 85 percent D) 50 percent
A) 45 percent B) 10 percent C) 92 percent D) 85 percent
A) An anonymous community B) The Beloved Disciple C) Mark the Evangelist D) The Apostle Paul
A) Rome B) Ephesus C) Corinth D) Jerusalem
A) By printing them in a different language B) By using a different font style C) Through footnotes D) By omitting the entire chapter
A) 62.9% B) 45.2% C) 99.9% D) 80.5%
A) Intentional corruption by heretics B) Changing cultural norms C) Political pressure from empires D) Unintentional scribal mistakes
A) Inconsistent and unreliable B) Well preserved C) Highly corrupted D) Lost entirely
A) Primary sources for the King James Version B) Mainstream early church documents C) Jewish legal transcripts D) Non-orthodox Christian writings
A) The disciples. B) The Judeans. C) The Romans. D) Pilate alone.
A) It is historically uncertain. B) It was added in the second century. C) Any doubt should be abandoned. D) It is purely symbolic.
A) A signed letter from Jesus. B) The High Priest Caiaphas' ossuary. C) The house of Pontius Pilate. D) The tomb of Judas. |
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