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