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NBST 515 Exam 1 with Answers-B07 LUO

100 out of 100 points  

1. According to Elwell, a canon is an authoritative collection of documents.
2. According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews are believed to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls?
3. According to the presentations, the first half of Jesus’ ministry took place where?
4. According to Elwell, apocalyptic literature was thought to convey a special revelation from God revealing hidden secrets surrounding the end of the age.
5. According to the presentations, Judaism, in the first century AD, was a monolithic religion comprised of a single group in which all Jews believed exactly the same.
6. According to Elwell, we should study the New Testament because
7. According to Elwell, by selecting twelve disciples, Jesus was drawing a parallel between the work of God in the Old Testament (12 tribes of Israel) and his own work in the New Testament.
8. According to Elwell, the Sea of Galilee is 1290 feet below sea level.
9. According to Elwell, Jesus and most of his hearers were unfamiliar with the Old Testament.
10. According to the presentations, the Pharisees believed that God, at Sinai, gave Moses two Torahs, one written and one oral.
11. According to Elwell, the ancient people to whom God originally gave the Scriptures were known first as Hebrews or Israelites, and later as Jews.
12. According to the presentations, “a sabbath day’s journey” was the distance one could travel on the sabbath day without violating the commandment to keep the sabbath.
13. According to the presentations, reading the Gospels “horizontally” means to read all four Gospels as one consistent story of the life of Christ.
14. According to the presentations, when did the term “Christian” first come into popular usage?
15. According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews’ chief interest was to support the Temple in Jerusalem as the center of Jewish life in Israel?
16. According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews supported the priesthood and exercised controlling influence on the Sanhedrin (Jewish court)?
17. According to Elwell, which disciple did not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he actually saw him?
18. According to the presentations, the Sadducees accepted all parts of the Hebrew Bible as Scripture.
19. According to Elwell, Jesus was born during the reign of
20. According to the presentations, Paul quit going to synagogue and Temple following his conversion to Christianity.

NBST 515 Exam 1 Set 2

1. According to the presentations, all four Gospels indicate that John the Baptist had a pivotal role in Jesus’ early ministry.
2. According to the presentations, the Herodian was the tomb of
3. According to Elwell, the New Testament consists of the Gospels, Acts, 21 letters, and one book of prophecy.
4. According to Elwell, most Jews who believed in the Messiah believed that he would defeat the Romans and make Jerusalem the center of the world.
5. According to the presentations, the Zealots had an uncompromising insistence on the first commandment – “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” – and as such considered the use of Roman coins to be idolatry.
6. According to Elwell, Jesus was convinced that in his own person and work, the kingdom of God had arrived.
7. According to the presentations, as late as the middle of the first century AD, the Roman Emperor Claudius could not distinguish between Jews and Christians.
8. According to Elwell, one’s identity as a Jew in the first century was confirmed by one’s lifestyle, which included such things as eating, washing, and ritual purity.
9. According to the presentations, Jesus’ trial had two phases, one before the Sanhedrin (Jewish), and one before Pontius Pilate (Roman).
10. According to the presentations, the Jewishness of early Christianity is most pronounced in which New Testament book?
11. According to the presentations, the first Christians observed both Pentecost and Passover.
12. According to Elwell, which of the following is not one of the characteristics of apocalyptic thought?
13. According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews referred to themselves as the Perushim or “separatists?”
14. According to Elwell, the New Testament tells of the fulfillment of what the Old Testament promises.
15. According to Elwell, first-century Judaism was primarily a way of life rather than a set of doctrines.
16. According to Elwell, our primary source of information about the Jewish Roman War of AD 66-70 was composed by
17. According to Elwell, Jesus’ favorite teaching device was the parable.
18. According to the presentations, the “temptations” of Jesus by Satan are more properly understood as “trials.”
19. According to the presentations, the “radical wing” of the liberal group, the Pharisees, was likely the
20. According to the presentations, reading the Gospels “vertically” means to read each of the four Gospels individually as a “solo,” rather than as a “quartet” of voices.