Chapter 9

Question 1

Jesus means?

Answer 1

God saves

Question 2

He is not just a myth or a legend, but a real person who lived and walked upon the earth

Answer 2

Jesus

Question 3

Jesus lived under the rule of?

Answer 3

Roman Empire

Question 4

Where did Jesus lived?

Answer 4

Canaan, Israel, Palestine

Question 5

A small town in Galilee where Jesus was from

Answer 5

Nazareth

Question 6

The dominant ethnic group of Jesus’ Palestine

Answer 6

Jews

Question 7

Where did the Jews descended from?

Answer 7

Ancient Hebrews from the Ancient Isrealites

Question 8

The classic and common language of Jews

Answer 8

Classic language: Hebrew

Common language: Aramaic

Question 9

Widely spoken language in the Roman Empire

Answer 9

Greek

Question 10

The term used for a “half-Jew”

Answer 10

Idumean

Question 11

He is the King of Judea

Answer 11

Herod the Great

Question 12

The three sons of Herod and their land inheritance

Answer 12

Herod Antipas - Galilee
Philip - northern and north-eastern parts
Archaelaus - Samaria and Judea

Question 13

“Jew” is both ___ and ___?

Answer 13

Race and Religion

Question 14

Several groups w/in Judaism that existed during the time of Jesus?

Answer 14

Sadducees
Pharisees
Essenes
Zealots

Question 14

They are the descendants of Zadok, and they are religious conservatives

Answer 14

Sadducees

Question 15

Their name means “separated ones”, and they are the strict observers of Torah

Answer 15

Pharisees

Question 16

They belong to a sect generally held to be responsible for the “Dead Sea Scrolls”

Answer 16

Essenes

Question 17

They are revolutionaries who were violently pitted against Roman rule

Answer 17

Zealots

Question 18

Body of Jewish elders that acted as judges and decision makers

Answer 18

Sanhedrin

Question 19

A Roman historian who wrote of a certain “Christ” who began a “pernicious superstition”

Answer 19

Cornelius Tacitus

Question 20

A chronicler of the Emperor Claudius, who wrote an event when the emperor expelled the Christians from Rome due to riots instigated by “Chrestus”

Answer 20

Suetonius

Question 21

He is a first-century Jewish historian who wrote about Jesus as a wise man put to death by Pontius Pilate, having been accused by Jewish authorities

Answer 21

Flavius Josephus

Question 22

He wrote of the Christians in Buthynia who sang hymns and chanted versus to Christ “as if to a god”

Answer 22

Pliny the Younger

Question 23

He is a traveling lecturer and Sophist rhetorician who wrote about Jesus Christ as a man crucified in Palestine for introducing a new cult

Answer 23

Luciano di Samosata

Question 24

A baraita (outside addition) of this Talmud spoke of a certain Yeshu who practiced magic and led his followers into apostasy. This Yeshu was "hanged on the eve of the Passover."

Answer 24

The Babylonian Talmud

Question 25

In the Old Testament, it signifies a person anointed for a very important, Divinely-mandated task, as King, prophet or priest

Answer 25

Christ/Messiah

Question 26

In the Old Testament, the Israelites of like the name varied, from a title of mere respect to circumlocution to call God without uttering his holy name

Answer 26

Lord

Question 27

In the Old Testament, this title referred to Angels, the righteous man, or to an important judge of ruler

Answer 27

Son of God

Question 28

Historically, this was a Semitic idiom used to denote self or humanity in a Humble manner

Answer 28

Son of Man

Question 29

This title signifies that the lineage of David continues

Answer 29

Son of David

Question 30

In Greek Philosophy, it was the Rational Principle ordering and governing the cosmos

Answer 30

Word of God

Question 31

In the Old Testament, the lamb was an animal of sacrifice offered to God for the forgiveness of sins

Answer 31

Lamb of God

Question 32

The mysterious figure is described in the book of Isaiah, someone chosen by God to undergo tremendous suffering in order to bring for justice in the world

Answer 32

Suffering Servant

Question 33

The Priest is the mediator between God and man, whose primary responsibility is to offer sacrifice to God

Answer 33

Eternal High Priest

Question 34

Gospel come from the English word ___? Which means?

Answer 34

Godspel - "good news"

Question 35

It is a form of literature pertaining to the good news of salvation proclaimed by Jesus Christ

Answer 35

Gospel

Question 36

The Stages of Formation of the Gospels

Answer 36

Stage I: The Historical Jesus Stage II: Oral Preaching by the Early Church Stage III: The Written Gospels