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1
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a group of Christians who believed that Jesus was not related directly to God. These Christians believed that God adopted Jesus.

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Adoptionists

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2
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Before Common Era/Common Era

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BCE/CE

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3
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Greek word meaning “ruler” or “straight edge” Term came to designate any recognized collection of texts.

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Canon

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4
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A group of second-century adoptionists who maintained Jewish practices and Jewish forms of worship.

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Ebionites

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5
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Denied Jesus’ humanity because they believed that the body is evil

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Gnostics

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6
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Second-century Christian scholar and evangelist later labeled a heretic for his docetic christology

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Marcion

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7
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form of christianity endorsed by some Christians of the second and third centuries that promoted doctrines declared “Orthodex” in the fourth and later centuries by the victorious Christian party in opposition to other groups of Christianity

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Pro-Orthodox Christianity

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8
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Category of divine beings in the Greco-Roman world. were widely thought to be less powerful than the gods but far more powerful than humans and capable of influencing human lives.

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Daimonia

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9
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A man’s guardian spirit (that of a woman was called Iuno)

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genius

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10
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guardian spirits of each family

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Lares

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11
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A non-Jewish person

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Gentile

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12
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A group of Greco-Roman religious that focused on the devotee’s individual needs both in this life and in life after death; is named because their initiation rituals and cultic practices involved the disclosure or hidden things that were to be kept secret from outsiders

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Mystery Cults

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13
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term Christians generally used to refer to the various polytheistic religions that are not Christianity; non-religion

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Pagans

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14
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household gods protecting the food store

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Penantes

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15
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In most Greco-Roman circles, the designation of a person born to a god able to perform miracles deeds and or to convey super human teachings.

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Son of God

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16
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Ancient Jewish writing discovered in serval caves near the northwest edge of the Dead Sea

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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17
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A dispersion of people from their homeland

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Diaspora

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18
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An apocalyptic and ascetic Jewish sect started during the Maccabean period, members of which are generally thought to have produced the Dead Sea Scrolls

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Essenes

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19
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Anointed one

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Messiah

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20
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a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity.

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Pharisees

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21
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A Jewish party associated with the Temple cult and the Jewish priests who ran it, comprising principally the Jewish aristocracy in Judea. The party leader, the High Priest, served as the highest ranking local official and chief liaison with the Roman governor.

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Sadducees

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22
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Jewish house of worship

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Synagogue

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23
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place of worship

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Temple

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24
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People who banded together during the time of Christ to violently resist Roman occupation.

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Zealots

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25
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Pioneer of a reform movement (originally, an early follower of Jesus)

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Apostle

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26
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Sacrament by which God cleanses all sin, and one becomes a member of the church.

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Baptism

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27
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story of a person’s life written by another person

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Biography

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28
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a major category or type of literature

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Genre

29
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The “Good News,” the story of the coming of the Savior, Jesus Christ, and the inauguration of God’s Kingdom.

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Gospel

30
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values and beliefs passed from generation to generation

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Tradition

31
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The original manuscript of a literary text from a Greek word meaning the writing itself

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Autograph

32
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any handwritten copy of a literary text

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Manuscript

33
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a person who writes things down

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Scribe

34
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The ancient practice of writing without using spaces to separate words

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scriptuo continua

35
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Scripture study that looks to the various early manuscripts of the biblical texts.

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Textual Criticism

36
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According to the Ebionites, Jesus was

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a righteous man

37
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In what year did Athanasius declare the current twenty-seven books of the New Testament to be authoritative?

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367 C.E.

38
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Which of the following was not a criterion for a Christian writing to become part of the biblical canon?

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Historical Accuracy

39
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What does the term gnosis mean?

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Knowledge

40
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According to some Gnostics, the Old Testament God was _______.

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Evil.

41
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Which of the following Christian groups thought it was blasphemy to call Jesus “God”

A

Ebionites

42
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The Marcionites believed that Jesus came to save people from

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the Jewish God

43
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The Nag Hammadi library preserves writings from which early Christian group

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Gnostics

43
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The Nag Hammadi library preserves writings from which early Christian group

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Gnostics

44
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The New Testament was written in what language

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Greek

45
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Which early Christian group believed in exactly two Gods: the just God of the Old Testament and the merciful God of Jesus

A

Marcionites

46
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Which of the following was NOT unique to ancient Judaism

A

the practice of animal sacrifice

47
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Which of the following was NOT a sect of ancient Judaism

A

the Maricionites

48
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Which of the following Jewish sects believed in the Oral Torah

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the Pharisees

49
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Which Jewish group urged rebellion against foreign powers in Judea

A

the “Fourth Philosophy”

50
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Which Jewish group was most closely associated with the Temple and the high priesthood

A

the Sadducees

51
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According to Ehrman, how do most ancient Jews seem to have felt about keep the law embodied in the Torah

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they considered it a great joy

52
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Which Jewish group explicitly rejected the idea of a future resurrection of the dead

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the Sadducees

53
Q

What was the physical sign of the covenant between the Jews and God

A

circumcising the foreskin of the penis

54
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In what way was the Temple in Jerusalem unlike any other Greco-Roman temple

A

It was the only temple for its God in the entire Roman Empire

55
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In addition to the Jerusalem Temple, Jews also gathered to read the Torah and pray in meeting places called

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synagogues

55
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In addition to the Jerusalem Temple, Jews also gathered to read the Torah and pray in meeting places called

A

synagogues

55
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In addition to the Jerusalem Temple, Jews also gathered to read the Torah and pray in meeting places called

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synagogues

56
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According to Ehrman, the Christian mission was conducted primarily

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person to person

56
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According to Ehrman, the Christian mission was conducted primarily

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person to person

57
Q

Scholars estimate the literacy rate in antiquity to have been

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10 to 15 percent

58
Q

According to the Gospel of John, Jesus died

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on the Day of Preparation (before the Passover meal)

59
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According to the Old Testament story of the Exodus, why did God instruct Moses to have every Israelite family sacrifice a lamb and paint their doorframes with its blood?

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So the angel of death would pass over the houses of the Israelites

60
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According to Ehrman, did the authors of the New Testament Gospels claim to be eyewitnesses to the events that they narrated?

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No

61
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According to Ehrman, what happened to the stories circulating about Jesus between the time of his execution and the writing of the first Gospel?

A

They were told over and over, spreading far and wide by oral transmission.

62
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How did pagan (non-Christian and non-Jewish) literature of the first century refer to the events surrounding Jesus’s life and death?

A

There are no references to Jesus in first-century pagan (non-Christian and non-Jewish) literature.

63
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Among early Christians, what was the primary ritual signifying membership in the Christian faith?

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baptism

64
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Identify one discrepancy in the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ crucifixion.

A

The account in John has it occurring at noon the day before the Passover meal while Mark has it at 9:00 on the morning after the meal.

65
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Why, in the Gospel of John, does Pontius Pilate have to conduct the trial of Jesus by lengthy conversations between the prosecution and defendant?

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Because the Jewish leaders refused to into Pilate’s residence, so they sent Jesus in alone, leaving Pilate to go back and forth between them.

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