Unit 1

Question 1

Who’s military campaign, in the 300s BC, included victory over Israel?

Answer 1

Alexander the Great

Question 2

Who ruled after Alexander the Great?

Answer 2

His death gives rise to both the Seleucids (Syria) and Ptolemies (Egypt)

Question 3

Who led a revolt against the oppression of Seleucid ruler Antiochus Epiphanes. this revolt regained control of the Jerusalem temple, an event now celebrated as Hanukkah

Answer 3

Judas Maccabeus

Question 4

Who did Rome install as King of the Jews?

Answer 4

Herod the Great

Question 5

Who was born and who died in 4BC?

Answer 5

Herod the Great died
Jesus was born

Question 6

In what period in the New Testament set?

Answer 6

In the early Roman Empire, after the Roman Republic

Question 7

Who was the Roman Emperor at Jesus’s birth and who was the Roman Emperor during his ministry?

Answer 7

Birth- Augustus Caesar
Ministry- Tiberius Caesar

Question 8

Who was the Roman Emperor during the Apostle Paul’s ministry?

Answer 8

Nero

Question 9

Who ruled Galilee during Jesus’s ministry?

Answer 9

Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great

Question 10

Who ruled Judea during Jesus’s ministry?

Answer 10

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate

Question 11

What was the culmination of a military campaign that ravished all of Israel and when did it happen?

Answer 11

The Roman military destroyed Jerusalem, including its temple, in 70AD

Question 12

What does the term “Greco Roman” mean?

Answer 12

It refers to the several Hellenized cultures of the Roman Empire

Question 13

How would someone move up or down in the social orders of Roman society?

Answer 13

They move up by gaining honor and move down by gaining shame

Question 14

Were slaves common in Greco-Roman society?

Answer 14

Yes, society included many slaves and former slaves

Question 15

Who would all would reside in a Greco Roman household?

Answer 15

Family, extended family, and slaves

Question 16

What did marriage look like in the Greco Roman world?

Answer 16

Monogamy was the norm but infidelity by husbands was very common

Question 17

Was exposure common?

Answer 17

Exposure of infants, especially girls, was a common source of infanticide, slavery, and prostitution

Question 18

What did the education look like?

Answer 18

Formal education beyond the elementary level was rare, especially among girls
Jewish eduction was centered in the home and synagogue

Question 19

What Temple was standing during the New Testament?

Answer 19

The New Testament is set net the end of the Second Temple Jerusalem, the era when the Second Jerusalem Temple was standing

Question 20

What is textual criticism?

Answer 20

It is the study of manuscripts in search of the original wording of the text of the Bible

Question 21

What is a canon?

Answer 21

It is a set of documents that are seen as a unit and typically cannot be changed

Question 22

When did the New Testament take its final form?

Answer 22

In the 4th century

Question 23

The Lords Supper is the New Covenant _____________
The New Testament is the New Covenant _____________

Answer 23

depicted
described

Question 24

What year did Judas Maccabeus have a meeting with a Greek general to get the temple back. And did so successfully.

Answer 24

164BC

Question 25

Who were Caesar during Romes destruction of Jerusalem?

Answer 25

Vespasian (father) and Titus (son)

Question 26

When was the New Testament started and finished?

Answer 26

Started in 50AD
Ended in 90AD

Question 27

Why did it take so long for the writing to be completed for the New Testament?

Answer 27

1. Jesus didn’t write any of the Bible
2. They already had the Old Testament
3. They had eye witnesses at the time no no to write it down
4. Early Christmas expects Jesus to return during their lifetime

Question 28

What were the first documents written in the New Testament?

Answer 28

Paul’s letters
He wrote all his letters and was killed before the Gospels were finished