2016 JUPEB CRS – Multiple Choice Questions

_____________ is the central character of the New Testament.

Jesus and his disciples lived in a region known in ancient times as __________

The term “Bible” is derived from the word biblia, which means __________

Early Christian believers referred to Jesus of Nazareth as _______ a term that means anointed one” and that ancient Jews applied to all of Israel’s kings.

The books of the New Testament were all written between the years

This was the most common language spoken in the Mediterranean world in the time of Jesus.

The word “gospel” translates the Greek term evangelion, which means __________

The literary genre of gospel is defined as __________

The central concern for all four New Testament Gospel writers in writing about the life of Jesus is __________

The New Testament contains _________ documents.

This gospel is not a part of the New Testament, and in  consists almost exclusively of sayings of Jesus.

The task of biblical criticism involves __________

The title of the Book of Revelation in Greek  is apocalypses, a word that means __________

The term “eschatology” means the study of believe about __________

The five books of Moses in the Hebrew Bible make up the __________

Paul’s letters to the Gentiles (50 – 62 CE) advocate a Christian’s total freedom from __________

The first list of books that corresponded exactly to  the twenty-seven books of the modern New Testament appeared in the __________

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were given these four titles by the early church because these books could be associated somehow with __________, whom Jesus of Nazareth had called to be his close followers.

Christians place the Book of Malachi at the end of their Old Testament Scriptures because __________

Ancient Jewish rabbis believed that the period of inspired prophecy ceased shortly after the time of the Jewish scribe ________ around 400 BCE.

Books like 1 Clement and 2 Peter show that for second-century Christians, _______ was an important theological topic that provoked a crisis of belief.

Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible was known as  the __________

The oldest copy of any New Testament book is a small fragment from a copy of the Gospel of John. It is usually dated around __________, or only twenty to  thirty years after the Gospel of John  was written.

The oldest complete copies of the New Testament, including _________, survived in part because they were written on animal skin rather than papyrus.

Early Christians pioneered the use of the _______,a type  of book construction that featured binding on one edge in the manner of the modern bound book.

Some of the most important codex editions of the New Testament, such as the Codex Sinaiticus, are known as or majuscules because they were written in all in capital letters.

The first person to translate the entire Bible from the Latin into English was __________

The first English Bible translator to work directly from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts was __________

The __________ is a very popular Bible  translation that was produced in the 1970s and reflects a generally conservative Protestant viewpoint.

Contemporary readers not steeped in the rhythms of poetry, Renaissance vocabulary, or Shakespeare will have a difficult time understanding which version of the Bible?

The earliest copies of the complete New Testament were not produced until __________

In writing about the composition of the New Testament canon, this early church historian divided
Christian books into three different categories: acknowledged, disputed and rejected.

This prominent member of the Roman Church advocated Christians abandon the Hebrew canon of Scriptures and replace it with a carefully edited version of the Gospel of Luke and Paul’s letters.

Ancient Israel’s greatest commandment, and the one cited by Jesus as the “greatest” commandment, was known as the 35. According to Exodus 3:13-16, Israel’s Deity is called __________

According to Exodus 3:13-16, Israel’s deity is called __________

The Torah or Mosaic Law of ancient Israel is preserved in which books of the Hebrew Bible?

In Jesus’ time, many Jews lived in the __________ a term that refers to the scattering of Jews to foreign regions outside Palestine.

Many devout Jews in Jesus’ day made annual pilgrimages to the Jewish temple located in __________

Jewish High Priests were usually members of what religious sect within Judaism?

On this high holy day, the Jewish High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies in the Jewish temple to offer a sacrifice on behalf of all the Jewish people.

Which of the following was typical of the beliefs of the Sadducees?

Although the tradition of the elders originally circulated in oral form only, it was eventually written down in a set of documents collectively known as the __________

I After the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE, the center of rabbinic Judaism moved to the coastal town of _____________ , where an academy of rabbis continued to develop Jewish beliefs about the contents of the Bible and Judaism’s relationship with Christianity.

The ________ were a distinctive group of Jewish people who lived in the region between Judea and Galilee. Most other Jews viewed them as an alien group that practiced a false version of Judaism.

A monastic sect of Jews known as the __________ settled in a community in Qumran near the Dead Sea.

The inhabitants of the monastery at Qumran may have been responsible for producing the __________, copies of which were discovered in caves near the settlement.

Which New Testament character best echoes some of the characteristic views of the Essenes, such as the achievement of spiritual purity by withdrawing from society, the need for repentance to escape God’s  coming judgment, and baptism as a sign of spiritual cleansing?

The English term “Messiah” derives from the Hebrew term mashiah, which means __________

Which of the following was a messianic pretender who claimed to be “son of the star” and who led the Jews into a disastrous rebellion against Rome?

The Dead Sea Scrolls were probably penned by the __________

Early Christians countered Jewish objections that Jesus of Nazareth failed to reestablish David’s kingdom by claiming that __________

2 Kings 17 depicts Samaritans as descendants of Mesopotamians and not “authentic” Jews by heritage. Recent historical research __________

Which of the following describes an innocent righteous man (the “suffering servant”) whose pain and humiliation are borne for the sake of others, just as Jesus reportedly has done?

The adoption of Greek language, literature, social customs, and ethical values is called __________

This leader succeeded in subduing virtually all the known world, inspiring later military leaders, before 323 BCE.

When did the Jewish people finally restore the nation of lsrael?

The real center of power in the Mediterranean world when Jesus was born was the Roman emperor

This general and successor to Alexander the Great began a dynasty that ruled much of southwestern Asia after Alexander’s death.

These “pious ones” resisted attempts by Hellenists to force Jews to compromise the principles of their religious faith, even to the point of enduring torture and execution for their beliefs.

The monarch ruling Palestine when Jesus was born was __________

One of the sons of Herod the Great, _________ is the Herod who beheaded John the Baptist and whom Jesus of Nazareth described as “that fox.”

This member of the family of Herod was a devoted ally of the Pharisee party and vigorously persecuted the early church, imprisoning the apostle Peter and beheading the apostle James.

This Roman emperor was the stepson of Augustus and ruled over Rome during the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.

Which of the New Testament Gospels are known as the Synoptic Gospels?

Why are the Synoptic Gospels so called?

In a speech appearing only in a single gospel did the author highlight the role of the Paraclete, the divinely sent Spirit that guides a religious community after Jesus’ departure. In which gospel did this concept appear

Jesus’ sayings were originally translated from Aramaic to __________

When the earliest Christian missionaries carried their message into Greek-speaking areas, __________

If we carefully analyze the four Gospel narratives, it becomes clear that the Evangelists are less concerned about __________

The critical method that attempts to identify the oldest oral forms underlying the Gospels’ written texts is called __________

Form critics claim that the Gospels are made up of individual units such as pronouncement stories, conflict stories, and parables. These individual units are called __________

The term “pericope” is derived from two Greek words meaning __________

Because it emphasizes Jesus’ suffering and death as the most important aspects of his biography, this Gospel has been called a Passion narrative with a long introduction.

The Gospel that portrayed Jesus as the Galilean carpenter-prophet is __________

The author of this gospel also wrote the Book of Acts as a sequel to his Gospel story about Jesus and his disciples.

This Gospel is unique in that it is more interested in promoting a religion about Jesus rather than promulgating a modified form of traditional Judaism.

The Gospel that took the longest to be accepted by the church at large

In the Synoptic Gospels, “double tradition” is defined as __________

According to the two-document theory of Gospel origins, Matthew and Luke each independently drew from a written collection of Jesus’ sayings known as __________

Most scholars believe the Q document consisted mostly of

According to traditions in the early church, Mark was a disciple of the apostle _______ in Rome and based his Gospel accounts on the testimony of that apostle

The first part of the Gospel of Mark is set in what geographical location?

In the very first verse of his Gospel, Mark identifies Jesus by these two titles.

In the opening scene in Mark, the reader is introduce to a divinely appointed “voice crying aloud in the wilderness,” a desert preacher named __________

Mark portrays Jesus as a person who urgently preached about the coming of the eschaton, a term that refers to __________

This is the first person in the Gospel of Mark to recognize that Jesus is the “Christ.

The Markan Gospel begins with __________

Matthew is the only New Testament Gospel to use the term ekklesia, which means __________

The tradition widely accepted in the early church is that the author of Matthew held the profession of __________

In Matthew, Jesus commonly teaches by providing detailed interpretations of the meaning of the Mosaic Torah.  These detailed interpretations are known a __________

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus rejects the principle of lex talionis or the ______

Most of Matthew’s changes and additions serve the purpose of __________

The Beatitudes are found in __________

The Gospel of Luke is often associated with what other New Testament book?

According to tradition, the author of Luke’s Gospel was a __________

According to some traditions in the early church, the author of Luke was a traveling companion of the apostle __________

Luke shows Jesus’ solidarity with the entire human race by tracing Jesus’ genealogy back to the Old
Testament figure of __________

When Jesus was brought to trial before Pilate, the Roman governor, Pilate realized that Jesus was a Galilean, so he sent Jesus to be tried by __________

One of Jesus’ last acts before dying on the cross in the  Gospel of Luke is to __________

Luke’s Gospel was composed