Test 1

Question 1

Alexander the Great

Answer 1

Conqueror who spread Greek language over the world

Question 2

Amme ha-arets

Answer 2

The masses, the common people

Question 3

Apocalyptic

Answer 3

Visionary writing dealing with end times

Question 4

Apostolicity

Answer 4

Written by or under influence of an apostle

Question 5

Aramaic

Answer 5

Common language of Judea

Question 6

Cannon (know exact definition)

Answer 6

Accepted set of books of the Bible

Question 7

Diaspora

Answer 7

Jews scattered outside Palestine

Question 8

Diatribe

Answer 8

Rhetorical questions with answers following

Question 9

Epicureans

Answer 9

Thought pleasure to be the supreme good

Question 10

Essenes

Answer 10

Strict, self-exiled religious community

Question 11

Exegesis (know exact definition)

Answer 11

Study to determine meaning in original text

Question 12

Greek religion

Answer 12

Polytheism

Question 13

Hasmonean dynasty

Answer 13

Ruled an independent Jewish kingdom

Question 14

Hellenization (know exact definition)

Answer 14

Forcing Greek culture and religion on conquered peoples

Question 15

Hermeneutics (know exact definition)

Answer 15

How to read and interpret the Bible

Question 16

Herod the Great

Answer 16

Most significantly shaped opening years of New Testament

Question 17

Herodians

Answer 17

A political party

Question 18

Interpretive framework

Answer 18

Presuppositions, believes, and attitude

Question 19

Koine

Answer 19

Common Greek

Question 20

Maccabean war

Answer 20

Struggle for Jewish freedom

Question 21

Papyrus

Answer 21

Earliest surviving copies of the New Testament

Question 22

Parchment

Answer 22

Leather on which later copies of the new New Testament are written

Question 23

Pharisees

Answer 23

Pious Jews emphasizing both written and oral law

Question 24

Scribes

Answer 24

Jewish scholars and interpreters of the law

Question 25

Sadducees

Answer 25

Priestly aristocracy

Question 26

Samaritans

Answer 26

Mixed race

Question 27

Sanhedrin

Answer 27

Jewish Supreme Court

Question 28

Septuagint

Answer 28

Greek translation of the Old Testament

Question 29

Stoics

Answer 29

Virtuous knowledge, desire should be suppressed

Question 30

Synagogue

Answer 30

Center of study in teaching of the Torah

Question 31

Roman religion

Answer 31

Emperor worship

Question 32

Textual criticism (know exact definition)

Answer 32

Scholarly reconstruction of the original text

Question 33

Titus

Answer 33

Conqueror who destroyed Jerusalem

Question 34

Variants

Answer 34

Errors in the manuscript

Question 35

Vespasian

Answer 35

Sent to restore order in Judea but became emperor

Question 36

Five adverbs that tell how we should read the Bible

Answer 36

Systematically
Thoughtfully 
Prayerfully 
Recreationally 
Devotionally

Question 37

Test for Canonicity

Answer 37

1. use of the books by the Church in general
2. question whether an apostle wrote or did not write a book was part of the debate
3. this consensus of orthodox faith or the canon of truth, and it was the ultimate court of appeal for keeping books out of the canon
4. evidence of divine inspiration

Question 38

Inspiration

Answer 38

the energy of the Holy Spirit through which Holy men were qualified to receive religious truth and to communicate it to others without error

Question 39

Description of synagogue worship

Answer 39

1. Worshipers always sat facing toward Jerusalem
2. Scribes and Pharisees faced the congregation
3. Formal services were conducted every Sabbath morning as well as feast days
4. Service was ended by a priestly benediction or prayer

Question 40

Literary genres of the new testament

Answer 40

Narrative, letter, apocalyptic