Test 1

Question 1

What time period did people begin to associate Matthew the tax collector with the book named after him

Answer 1

most likely written in 65-70

Question 2

Know which genealogy is in Matthew

Answer 2

Joseph

Question 3

Know all of the horizontal zones in Israel

Answer 3

Above (Upper) Galilee (wet / inaccessible) 
Beside (Lower) Galilee (Jesus’ home)
Carmel and Jezreel (Baal)
Negev (South / dry) – Below Dead Sea
Desert (Wilderness ) - Peninsula

Question 4

Know all of the five vertical zones in Israel

Answer 4

Coastal Plain
Central Mountain Range
African - Syrian Rift (Jordan)
Shephelah
Eastern Plateau

Question 5

What does pericope mean?

Answer 5

a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture

Question 6

Know what a synoptic gospel is

Answer 6

Matthew, Mark and Luke

Question 7

Who was the first European to conquer the Middle East?

Answer 7

Alexander the great

Question 8

Mark and Peter’s relationship

Answer 8

Interpreter?

Question 9

Matthew’s primary view of Jesus

Answer 9

Jesus as king, teacher and Messiah.

Question 10

Where was the book of Mark was written?

Answer 10

Rome

Question 11

What’s the first gospel written according to modern scholars?

Answer 11

Mark

Question 12

What’s “Q”?

Answer 12

Makes up Matthew and Luke

Question 13

During Jesus life, how many sections of land was Palestine broken into?

Answer 13

Land of Honey (North)

Land of Milk (South)

Question 14

Who said “there is nothing impossible to him who will try?

Answer 14

Alexander the Great

Question 15

Who does “separated ones” represent?

Answer 15

Pharisee

Question 16

What does Sadducees mean?

Answer 16

to be righteous

Question 17

The name of the High priest who condemned Jesus

Answer 17

Zadok

Question 18

Which Gospel is the most clear, concise, and fast paced?

Answer 18

Mark

Question 19

Which religious group was the most influential in Jesus’s day?

Answer 19

The Pharisees

Question 20

In the parable of the sewer, what did the seed that falls on rocky ground represent?

Answer 20

represent those who hear the word, but only accept it shallowly

Question 21

According to Matthew 6, what did Jesus teach when he referred to the birds of the air and the lilies of the field?

Answer 21

worrying about life

Question 22

Where does the Jordan River end?

Answer 22

The Dead Seas

Question 23

In Matthew 18, in a parable about a servant who owed a great debt, why was the servant eventually turned over to the jailers to be tortured?

Answer 23

Until he should pay back all he owed

Question 24

John the Baptist said that one would come after him who would baptize with what

Answer 24

Water

Question 25

According to Matthew 4 what was the sequence of the temptations Jesus faces

Answer 25

Turning stone to bread, testing God, worshiping Satan

Question 26

In Matthew 20, who asked that her sons be allowed to sit at Jesus’ right and left in His kingdom?

Answer 26

The mother of Zebedee’s sons

Question 27

According to Matthew 8, about whom did Jesus say “I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith?”

Answer 27

The centurion

Question 28

What is the Diaspora?

Answer 28

Jews scattered to other nations due to the exiles.

Question 29

Know the 8 Kerygma of the early church.

Answer 29

1. Jesus as Fulfillment of Prophecy
2. Jesus’ Life and Ministry
3. Jesus’ Crucifixion
4. Jesus’ Resurrection
5. Jesus’ Exaltation
6. Gift of the Holy Spirit
7. Jesus’ Return
8. Call to Repentance

Question 30

What were 4 of the differences between John and the other gospels?

Answer 30

Ministry Location
Form of Teaching
Aspects of Jesus
Gospel Account

Question 31

Know the Marcan hypothesis.

Answer 31

That Mark is the primary source for Luke and Matthew.

Question 32

For personal reasons who was responsible for John the Baptist being beheaded?

Answer 32

King Herod

Question 33

Who was the audience that Matthew was writing to?

Answer 33

Jews