Test #2

Question 1

What is not a reason why the Gospels are limited in their ability to give us historical information about Jesus:
1) they are selective in recalling Jesus sayings,
2) they are too long,
3) they are translations,
4) they are confessions of faith,
5) gospel writers felt compelled to flexibly alter the words of Jesus,
6) they were written to later Gentile audiences with specific religious needs.

Answer 1

2) they are too long

Question 2

When we seek to write an objective biography of Jesus, we are attempting to write about:
1) the Christ of Faith
2) the Jesus of History or Jesus of Nazareth

Answer 2

2) the Jesus of History or Jesus of Nazareth

Question 3

In our theology and worship life we speak primarily about:
1) the Christ of Faith
2) the Jesus of History or Jesus of Nazareth

Answer 3

1) the Christ of Faith

Question 4

Who wrote the first “life of Jesus,” using the Gospel of John because of dynamic language found in the gospel:
1) Arthur Schopenhauer,
2) Friedrich Schleiermacher,
3) Samuel Reimarus

Answer 4

2) Friedrich Schleiermacher

Question 5

Who was not an 18th and 19th century scholar who undertook a quest for the “historical Jesus”:
1) Ernst Renan,
2) Samuel Reimarus,
3) Thomas Adams,
4) Ferdinand Baur,
5) David Strauss

Answer 5

3) Thomas Adams

Question 6

Who was not a 19th century scholar who built upon the quest to articulate theology and ethics on the basis of the “reconstructed historical Jesus”:
1) William Albright,
2) Albrecht Ritschl,
3) Walter Rauschenbusch,
4) Adolph von Harnack,
5) Ernst Troelsch

Answer 6

1) William Albright

Question 7

Who not was famous for using the Jesus teachings to proclaim
a Message of “social Gospel”:
1) Ernst Troelsch,
2) Walter Rauschenbusch,
3) Siegfried Herrmann,
4) Karl Barth

Answer 7

4) Karl Barth

Question 8

Who was the church historian who said that Paul really invented Christianity, not Jesus:
1) Adolph von Harnack
2) Ernst Troelsch
3)Walter Rauschenbusch
4) Herrmann Gunkel

Answer 8

1) Adolph von Harnack

Question 9

Who ended the first quest for the historical Jesus by declaring it impossible to get behind the gospels for an objective portrayal of Jesus and most likely he was a wild schatological preacher:
1)Siegfried Herrmann,
2) Albert Schweitzer,
3) Rudolph Bultmann

Answer 9

2) Albert Schweitzer

Question 10

Who is not a 20th century scholar who undertakes a quest for the “historical Jesus”:
1) Gaza Vermes
2) E. P. Sanders
3) Morton Smith,
4) Jason Jackson
5) Burton Mack
6) John Dominic Crossan
7) John Meier.

Answer 10

4) Jason Jackson

Question 11

Who is significant in the recent “third quest” for the historical Jesus, analyzing the nature of Jesus’ Galilean audience:
1) Gaza Vermes,
2) John Meier,
3) Burton Mack,
4) John Dominic Crossan

Answer 11

2) John Meier

Question 12

What letter symbolizes the oral “source” of Jesus’ sayings that we believe may have been used by the gospel writers:
1) A,
2) H,
3) Q,
4) S,
6) Z

Answer 12

3) Q

Question 13

What is not one of the “sources” characterized by the “four source hypothesis:
1) the “oral source”
2) John,
3) Mark

Answer 13

2) John,

Question 14

Which is not one of the two themes in Jesus’ teaching ministry:
1) Fatherhood of God, Brotherhood and Sisterhood of all people,
2) the church, the Body of Christ,
3) the Kingdom of God.

Answer 14

2) the church, the Body of Christ,

Question 15

What is not a characteristic of the Kingdom of God:
1) it is coming,
2) it is come,
3) it is the rule of God over all people,
4) it is to be equated directly with the church,
5) it comes quickly, violently, and in radical fashion,
6) the poor, sinners, and publicans are to be taken
into it,
7) all people will be equal,
8) God will be our Father.

Answer 15

4) it is to be equated directly with the church,

Question 16

What was Jesus’ name for God:
1) Yahweh,
2) Jehovah,
3) Abba,
4) Pater Noster.

Answer 16

3) Abba,

Question 17

Which is not a Jesus saying discussed in class:
1) turn the other cheek,
2) love your enemies,
3) offer sacrifice,
4) carry the soldier’s armor/baggage for two miles.

Answer 17

3) offer sacrifice,

Question 18

What is not a type of Jesus saying:
1) hard,
2) impractical,
3) impossible.

Answer 18

2) impractical,

Question 19

What do parables talk about the most:
1) moral living,
2) the Kingdom of God,
3) Jewish purity laws.

Answer 19

2) the Kingdom of God,

Question 20

Which is not a parable of Jesus discussed in class:
1) prodigal son,
2) vineyard harvest,
3) good Samaritan,
4) righteous king

Answer 20

4) righteous king

Question 21

Samaritan means:
1) helper,
2) half-breed,
3) good guy

Answer 21

2) half-breed,

Question 22

In the parable of the prodigal son, we are to identify ourselves
with the:
1) older brother,
2) younger brother,
3) father

Answer 22

1) older brother,

Question 23

Which interpretation of the Jesus ethic says that we can keep it
living together in small communities:
1) accusatory,
2) idealistic,
3) interim,
4) communal

Answer 23

4) communal

Question 24

Which interpretation of the Jesus ethic says that it was presented only as a temporary ethic before the imminent coming
of the Kingdom of God:
1) accusatory,
2) idealistic,
3) interim,
4) communal

Answer 24

3) interim,

Question 25

Which interpretation of the Jesus ethic says that it is designed to convince us that we are sinful and need forgiveness: 1) idealistic, 2) accusatory, 3) communal, 4) interim

Answer 25

2) accusatory,

Question 26

Which interpretation of the Jesus ethic says that we should try to keep as best we can, even if we fall short: 1) idealistic, 2) accusatory, 3) communal, 4) interim

Answer 26

1) idealistic,

Question 27

Roman Catholic tend to prefer: 1) idealistic model, 2) accusatory model, 3) communal modal, 4) interim model

Answer 27

1) idealistic model,

Question 28

Protestants tend to prefer: 1) idealistic model, 2) accusatory model, 3) communal modal, 4) interim modal

Answer 28

2) accusatory model,

Question 29

What is not a significant understanding of Jesus’ passion: 1) it demonstrated his obedience to the father 2) it epitomized his love ethic 3) he was the perfect sacrifice for human sin 4) it was the ultimate fate of a prophet 5) he died for crimes against Rome

Answer 29

5) he died for crimes against Rome

Question 30

Semeia primarily means: 1) miracle, 2) sign, 3) wonder

Answer 30

2) sign,

Question 31

Semeia for later Christians do not point to: 1) faith, 2) royal rule of Jesus, 3) forgiveness

Answer 31

2) royal rule of Jesus,

Question 32

Who was not a wonder worker: 1) Apollonia of Tyana, 2) Honi ben Dosa, 3) Joshua ben Sabbat, 4)Hananina

Answer 32

3) Joshua ben Sabbat,

Question 33

What should we consider a truly symbolically significant semeion: 1) healing the blind, 2) stilling the storm, 3) healing the deaf

Answer 33

2) stilling the storm,

Question 34

This sage said we should keep the spirit of the Law, and he said that he could summarize the Law while standing on one foot: 1) Hillel, 2) Shammai, 3) Gamaliel

Answer 34

1) Hillel,

Question 35

This sage was a literalist who kept the Law strictly as an act of devout piety, and his followers created a “hedge” around the Law creating thousands of additional guidelines, mostly about the Sabbath: 1) Hillel, 2) Shammai, 3) Gamaliel

Answer 35

2) Shammai,

Question 36

Jesus and Paul were in the tradition of which sage or rabbi: 1) Hillel, 2) Shammai.

Answer 36

1) Hillel,

Question 37

Modern Judaism grew more out of the tradition of which sage: 1) Hillel, 2) Shammai

Answer 37

1) Hillel,

Question 38

What role defines Jesus the most: 1) prophet, 2) sage, 3) apocalypticist

Answer 38

2) sage,

Question 39

What role defines Jesus the least: 1) prophet, 2) sage 3) apocalypticist

Answer 39

3) apocalypticist