1. According to the presentations, which two Gospel writers use an “aside”
when speaking of “the abomination of desolation standing where it
shouldn’t?”
Matthew and Luke
Mark and Luke
Matthew and Mark
2. According to the presentations, James, son of Zebedee, was the author of
the Epistle of James.
True
False
3. According to the presentations, the Synoptic “Problem” is that there are
not only striking agreements, but significant differences among the
first three Gospels.
True
4. According to the presentations, the view that the canonical order of the
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke) is the order of composition as well is
known as the
Griesbach Hypothesis
Augustinian Hypothesis
Farrer Hypothesis
Two Source Hypothesis
Question 5
5 / 5 pts
According to the presentations, which New Testament epistle is comprised of an
elaborate theological reflection on the superiority of Christ and his
sacrifice?
James
Hebrews
none of the above
all of the above
Question 6
5 / 5 pts
According to the presentations, when scholars speak of the “triple tradition,”
they mean
stories told by Matthew, Mark, and John
stories told by Matthew, Mark, and Luke
stories told by Matthew, Luke, and John
none of the above
Question 7
5 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, which of the following is a criterion of authenticity
used by scholars to find Jesus’s authentic words?
A saying found in more than one place in the Gospels
A saying that presupposes a 1 century Palestinian background
st
A saying that differs from what 1 century Judaism and/or the early church
st
believed
all of the above
Question 8
5 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, it is possible that Hebrews was composed before the
temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70 because had this event already
occurred, the writer would likely have mentioned it to clinch his argument
about the superiority of Christ’s sacrifice.
True
False
IncorrectQuestion 9
0 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, the notion that the analysis of the literary units
(totaling about 1,165) that comprise the Gospels were only subjected to
analysis in the modern period is discredited by the existence of the Eusebian
Canons.
True
False
Question 10
5 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, who was the scholar who argued that the New Testament
must be “demythologized” by taking the early Christian “myths” of incarnation,
deity, death for sins, and resurrection and translating them into acceptable
20th century categories, so that modern people could believe them?
C. H. Dodd
Ernst Käsemann
James M. Robinson
Rudolf Bultmann
Question 11
5 / 5 pts
According to the presentations, the view held by most scholars to explain the
phenomenon of the Synoptics is
the Ur-Gospel theory
literary interdependence
oral tradition
none of the above
IncorrectQuestion 12
0 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, the word “hermeneutics” refers to the theory and practice
of interpretation. (TRUE)
True
False
IncorrectQuestion 13
0 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, the isolated, independent units of written Gospel
material which form critics analyzed in their attempt to trace the development
of the Gospels in their oral stages are called
units
stories
pericopae
none of the above
Question 14
5 / 5 pts
According to the presentations, the three major theories relied upon by
scholars to account for the Synoptic Problem are oral tradition, an Ur-Gospel,
and literary interdependence.
True
False
Question 15
5 / 5 pts
According to the presentations, the individual scenes, or stories, within the
Gospels are referred to by scholars as “pericopae.”
True
False
Question 16
5 / 5 pts
According to the presentations, the Synoptic Gospels never quote the Old
Testament in exactly, or nearly exactly, the same words.
True
False
Question 17
5 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, the Epistle of James was most likely written to a Gentile
audience.
True
False
Question 18
5 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, one of the arguments against Pauline authorship of
Hebrews is that it is written in a Greek style that seems different from
Paul’s.
True
False
Question 19
5 / 5 pts
According to the presentations, the Griesbach Hypothesis, that Matthew wrote
first, followed by Luke who used Matthew, then Mark who used both Matthew and
Luke, is also known as the
Two Source Hypothesis
Two Gospel Hypothesis
all of the above
none of the above
Question 20
5 / 5 pts
According to Elwell, the prevailing view, for over a thousand years, of the
interrelationship of the four Gospels was the canonical order (Matthew, Mark,
Luke, John), and it is attributed to
Origen
Celsus
Irenaeus
Augustine
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