Biblical Allusions 4

Question 1

the prayer given by Jesus to His disciples, and beginning with the words Our Father

Answer 1

Lord’s Prayer

Question 2

when God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his family were told to flee without looking back; Lot’s wife was disobedient and was immediately changed into a pillar of salt

Answer 2

Lot’s wife

Question 3

a version of the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you; first found in the Old Testament; Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan to illustrate this commandment

Answer 3

Love thy neighbor as thyself

Question 4

a proud, rebellious archangel, identified with Satan, who fell from heaven

Answer 4

Lucifer

Question 5

the wise men, generally assumed to be three in number, who paid homage to the infant Jesus

Answer 5

Magi

Question 6

perhaps the most famous verse of the Beatitudes promoting humility and trust in the Lord

Answer 6

Meek shall inherit the earth

Question 7

a patriarch supposed to have lived 969 years who has come to be regarded as epitomizing longevity

Answer 7

Methuselah

Question 8

the hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and delivered the Law during their years of wandering in the wilderness

Answer 8

Moses

Question 9

the only saying that appears in more than one Gospel; taken by some as an abandonment of the Son by the Father or a cry as that of one who was truly human and who felt forsaken

Answer 9

My God why hast thou forsaken thee?

Question 10

the birth of Jesus Christ

Answer 10

Nativity

Question 11

the collection of writings consisting of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, Pauline and other Epistles, and the book of Revelation, composed soon after Christ’s death and added to the Jewish writings of the Old Testament to make up the Christian Bible

Answer 11

New Testament

Question 12

a Hebrew patriarch, who saved himself, his family, and specimens of each species of animal and bird from the Flood by building a ship

Answer 12

Noah and the great flood

Question 13

a phrase adapted from the Book of Ecclesiastes; the author complains frequently in the book about the monotony of life

Answer 13

Nothing new under the sun

Question 14

the collection of books comprising the sacred Scriptures of the Hebrews and essentially recording the history of the Hebrew people as the chosen people of God; the first part of the Christian Bible

Answer 14

Old Testament

Question 15

the branch brought by a dove to Noah’s ark signifying that the flood was receding

Answer 15

Olive branch

Question 16

a depravity, or tendency to evil, held to be innate in humankind and transmitted from Adam to the race in consequence of his sin

Answer 16

Original sin

Question 17

any of the stories of this kind told by Jesus Christ

Answer 17

Parables

Question 18

a Jewish festival that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and is marked chiefly by the Seder ritual and the eating of matzoth. It begins on the 14th day of Nisan and is celebrated for eight days by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside of Israel and for seven days by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel

Answer 18

Passover

Question 19

to offer or give something of great value to those incapable of appreciating it

Answer 19

Pearls before swine

Question 20

interpreted to be used to criticize Jesus during the Rejection of Jesus by the natives of his hometown of Nazareth; the moral of the proverb is counsel to attend to one’s own defects rather than criticizing defects in others

Answer 20

Physician heal thyself