quiz #1

Question 1

What is the New Testement about? What are the two Main themes.

Answer 1

Jesus Proclaims

People describing Jesus.

Question 2

What does Apistle mean?

Answer 2

Letter

Question 3

What does Catholic/General mean?

Answer 3

Universal

Question 4

When were the Gospels written?

Answer 4

65-90 CE

Question 5

How did people preach before the gospels were written

Answer 5

They preached orally, they did not read.

Question 6

What books did people agree on?

Answer 6

Gospels, Acts, Peters, Paul.

Question 7

When was the formal New Testement put together?

Answer 7

The late 300’s

Question 8

What does Canon Mean?

Answer 8

The ruler
Authoritative measurement
Sacred Writings

Question 9

What does the bible not “claim” itself to be?

Answer 9

The Word of God.

Question 10

How should the bible be viewed?

Answer 10

As a set of testamony’s.

Question 11

What is Jesus called to be?

Answer 11

The word of God.

Question 12

The old testement and the new testement have a very complex relationship, what are they about?

Answer 12

OT: the story of the Israel/Judah.
NT: The story of Jesus and the subsequent Jesus movement (the church)

Question 13

What is the Meta Narative?

Answer 13

The overall drama of God, creation, humanity (in a 3 way interaction, inter-dependancy.
Creation (in it’s perfection)
Corruption (sin, evil, suffering)
Deliverance (Liberation, Saluation, Redemption)
Consummation (completetion): Re-creation

Question 14

What does “paradise” mean in Persian?

Answer 14

The Garden

Question 15

The big moments in the story of the OT/Hebrew bible grows around icey elements of the ancestral story of a people/nation. What are the two books that rival against each other?

Answer 15

Mishnah (200 CE) and Talmund (500 CE)

Question 16

What are the 4 big moments of the OT/ Hebrew bible?

Answer 16

Migration/ Refugees from the Empire finding New Land
Abraham and Sarah (1800 BCE)
“Abrahamic covenant” : being a people, having land, having a mission.
a community of semi nomadic pastoralists
Genesis 12-50

Crisis/Famine, Migration/Slavery, Liberation/ Law.
Exodus: Moses, Aaron, Miriam
Mount Sinai
Taking the land of Canaan ( 1300- 1200 BCE)
Israel emerges as a loose tribal confederation.

Monarchy/Kingship/ Royal Dynasty, Temple
David and Solomon (1000- 931/920 BCE), the glory days
Davidic covenant: promise to establish a dynasty
Solomon: the “first temple “ (from 950’s to the destruction of Babylonians in 586)
A kingdom divided: Israel (north, 920-721) vs. Judah (south, 920- 586)
Protest: Prophets; Wisdom: the sages and scribes; citurical song and poetry: Psalms

Collapse, Exile and Migration, Dispersion and Reconstruction, Hope for the age to come.
destruction of north kingdom (Israel) by the Assyrians in 721.
Destruction of South Kingdom (Judah) by Babylon 587/6 BCE.
restore Judah
Return of elite to Jerudalem under Persians: a nation led by chief priests.
the 2nd temple: 515 BCE to 70 CE (destroyed by Romans)
Judeans as a dispersed people: Eygpt, Mesopotamia, Persia.

Question 17

What books were written during the Intertestamental Period?

Answer 17

1st and 2nd Macabees

Question 18

What is Judea the client state of?

Answer 18

The Greek empires (Egypt, ptolemaic dynasty; Syrian Selevid Dynasty)

Question 19

When was the short interlude of independence, conquests and expansion of Judea?

Answer 19

167/142 BCE to 63 BCE

Question 20

When was the absorption into the Roman empire?(Judea)

Answer 20

63 BCE

Question 21

when was Jesus’ life time?

Answer 21

6 BCE - 27/30 CE

Question 22

When was the complete devastation after 2 major rebellions of independence in Judea

Answer 22

66-70 CE; 132-135 CE

Question 23

Where are the 1st editions, or “the originals” of the bible located today?

Answer 23

They do not exist; they are lost.

Question 24

What does Manu-scripts mean?

Answer 24

Something written by hand.

Question 25

How many methods were there to transmission a manuscript?

Answer 25

There were 2 methods.

Question 26

What 2 different errors were made when copying down a manuscript?

Answer 26

Unintentional errors: Faulty eyesight, listening, understanding.
Intentional errors: improvements of grammar or content, added explanations or comments.
eg. marginal or superscription

Question 27

How much did a manuscript cost?

Answer 27

it depended on the amount and quality of labour and of materials. eg. Sinaiticus: hides of 360 animals, calf and sheep.
if 3-4 scribal hands were used and there were multiple corrector’s the price would be equivalent to a life-time wages of one individual scribe.

Question 28

What were scribes most commonly used for?

Answer 28

They were usually property of the community and were for public reading by trained scholars
By now there is more than 5,700 greek biblical mass scribes. the earliest NT mass was from the 200’s CE.

Question 29

When was the first NT scribe printed?

Answer 29

1516 by Eramus and it was used in 6 Greek MSS

Question 30

What verse was added to the NT scribe in 1551?

Answer 30

Numbers and it was added by Stephanus.