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