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