Historical Jesus

Question 0

____ (70–130 CE), another historian, refers to the emperor Claudius’s expulsion of Jews from Rome in about 49 CE for causing continuous disturbances at the instigation of Christ.

Answer 0

Suetonius

Question 1

The Roman historian ____ (56 - 120ce) referring to the fire of Rome and 64 CE, says that the emperor Nero blamed the Christians whose originator, Christ, had been executed by Pontius Pilate.

Answer 1

Tacitus

Question 2

_____ (61–112 CE), wrote to the emperor Trajan about punishing Christians who persisted in their superstition. He knew from questioning them that they met regularly to pray to Christ as God.

Answer 2

Pliny the Younger

Question 3

The Jewish historian ____ (37 to 100 CE) has more to say about Jesus. He presumably wrote that Jesus was a wise man and a miracle worker who was crucified by Pilate.

Answer 3

Josephus

Question 4

In short ____ was a historical religious figure who was executed as a criminal, probably for claiming to be the King of the Jews, having served a short itinerant life.

Answer 4

Jesus

Question 5

Within the new Testament, the most promising sources for the life of Jesus are the ____, especially synoptic gospels

Answer 5

Gospels

Question 6

The Gospels are dated some 40 years after Jesus death and rely on earlier _____ handed down among Christian communities.

Answer 6

oral traditions

Question 7

The gospels are told from the perspective of the ____. In that the content is informed and only make possible by the resurrection and its effect on the authors.

Answer 7

Resurrection

Question 8

As such the early Christian writings do not give a good ____ representation of Jesus.

Answer 8

historical

Question 9

With care we can say some things about Jesus from the gospels that historically highly ____.

Answer 9

probable

Question 10

The characteristic ____ ___ ____of Jesus identify him as a prophetic figure within the symbolic world or Torah. He is someone within Judaism who speaks and thinks as a first century Palestinian Jew might.

Answer 10

speech and action

Question 12

Jesus speaks and acts with a distinctive sense of ____. He interprets Torah, not as other teachers who appeal to other authorities, but simply on his own authority. “You have heard it said, but I say to you …”

Answer 12

authority

Question 13

Jesus was born sometime before ____. He grew up in Nazareth, a small village in Galilee, as part of the peasant class.

Answer 13

4 CE

Question 14

Jesus was raised ____ and he remained deeply Jewish all of his life. His intention was not to create a new religion. Rather, he saw himself is doing something within Judaism.

Answer 14

Jewish

Question 15

He left Nazareth as an adult, met the prophet ____ and was baptised by John. During his baptism, Jesus likely experienced some sort of divine vision.

Answer 15

John

Question 16

He is a wandering figure and a wonder working figure, reminiscent of ____.

Answer 16

Elijah

Question 17

Shortly afterwards, Jesus began his public preaching with the message that the world could be transformed into a ____ of ____.

Answer 17

Kingdom of God

Question 18

Jesus proclamation of the rule of God and the call to repentance has a special sense of urgency and a special appeal to the ____.

Answer 18

outcast

Question 19

Jesus choice of twelve followers, virtually historically certain, symbolises the restoration of Israel as ____ people. Indicating that Jesus had an intention to start a movement.

Answer 19

Gods

Question 20

Jesus became a noted ___, ____ and ____. More healing stories told about Jesus than about any other figure in the Jewish tradition.

Answer 20

healer, teacher and prophet

Question 21

In the context of a deeply divided 1st century Judaism, Jesus came into ____ with Jewish leaders and was executed by crucifixion under roman authority.

Answer 21

conflict

Question 22

Jesus was executed by ____ imperial authority. His ministry came to an abrupt end and his followers disbanded.

Answer 22

Roman

Question 23

Christianity is born after Jesus death as a direct result of the ____ experience by his followers.

Answer 23

resurrection

Question 24

Jesus followers experienced him after his ____. It is clear that they had visions of Jesus as they had known him during his historical life. Only after his death that they declared Jesus to be Lord or the Son of God.

Answer 24

death

Question 25

Jesus ____ mortality by entering into a share of God’s lif and power.

Answer 25

transcended

Question 26

“Jesus is Lord” in the ____ is saying that Jesus shares the life of God. Using the same Greek word as used for God.

Answer 26

Greek

Question 27

The resurrection reveals what Jesus was already in his mortal life, namely, the unique ____.

Answer 27

Son of God

Question 28

Jesus emptied himself of his divinity to become the historical figure but was also still ____.

Answer 28

God Among Us

Question 29

In light of his resurrection Christians read back into his life and ministry to ____ those event.

Answer 29

interpret

Question 30

The resurrection is also the premise that Jesus will come again as the ____ of the living and the dead. God’s triumph has begun with Jesus but is not yet complete.

Answer 30

judge

Question 31

The resurrection makes Jesus not just a Jewish messiah, but he is a new ____, the start of a new humanity available to all.

Answer 31

Adam