Exam 1

Question 1

In our Bibles the New Testament books DO or DO NOT appear in chronological order of their writing?

Answer 1

DO NOT

Question 2

The Old Testament was originally written in the __________ language

Answer 2

Hebrew

Question 3

_________ means having a general or universal rather than specific address

Answer 3

Catholic

Question 4

Under the Persians there began the ___________ sometimes called “the four hundred silent years”

Answer 4

Intertestamental Period

Question 5

The Greek culture called _________ had been spreading for some time through Greek trade and colonization

Answer 5

Hellenism

Question 6

The Greek language became the ___________ or common trade and diplomatic language

Answer 6

lingua franca

Question 7

At Alexander’s death, the empire was divided into ______ parts

Answer 7

4

Question 8

The ________ empire centered in Egypt

Answer 8

Ptolemaic

Question 9

The _______ empire centered in Syria

Answer 9

Seleucid

Question 10

Under Ptolemy Philadelphus Jewish scholars began to translate the Hebrew Old Testament into a Greek version called the…

Answer 10

Septuagint

Question 11

__________ replaced the Jewish high priest Onias 111 with Jason, who started making Jerusalem into a __________ ____________

Answer 11

Epiphanes, greek-styled city

Question 12

Jews who opposed this paganization of their culture were called _____________ which meant __________ people

Answer 12

Hasideans, pious

Question 13

Antiochus Epiphanes replaced the Jewish high priest Jason with ____________

Answer 13

Menelaus

Question 14

To the Jews this was selling of the high priest office to the _______ __________ and they resented it

Answer 14

highest bidder

Question 15

The first five books of the Old Testament are called the __________

Answer 15

Pentateuch

Question 16

In 168 B.C. when General Apollonius and his army enforced paganism, it became a capital offense to what 4 things?

Answer 16

practice circumcision, observe the sabbath, celebrate Jewish festivals or possess scrolls of the Old Testament books

Question 17

Pagan sacrifices became compulsory and an altar to the Syrian god _________ was erected in the temple

Answer 17

Zeus

Question 18

In the village of Modein, a priest named ___________ revolted and fled to the mountains with his five sons

Answer 18

Mattathias

Question 19

The Maccabean Revolt began in __________ B.C.

Answer 19

167

Question 20

The Mattathias family, known as the Hasmoneans, later lost many of their supporters who split off into Essenes and the ____________

Answer 20

Pharisees

Question 21

The aristocratic and politically minded supporters of the Hasmonean priest-kings became the ____________

Answer 21

Sadducees

Question 22

After the assassination of Julius Caesar, ___________ became the first Roman emperor

Answer 22

Augustus

Question 23

The Roman emperor at Jesus birth was ___________

Answer 23

Augustus

Question 24

The Roman emperor under whom Jesus ministered and died was ____________

Answer 24

Tiberius

Question 25

The Roman emperor who expelled Jewish residents from Rome, for example Aquila and Priscilla; ___________

Answer 25

Claudius

Question 26

The Roman emperor who persecuted Christians, and under whom Peter and Paul were martyred; ____________

Answer 26

Nero

Question 27

Jews resented Herod the Great because he was an Idumean, which was a descendant of _________

Answer 27

Esau

Question 28

__________ was a fortress on the west side of the Dead Seas where more than _____________ committed mass suicide just before the Romans entered to capture them

Answer 28

Masada, 900

Question 29

The destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Romans occurred in A.D. ________

Answer 29

70

Question 30

The Romans rebuilt Jerusalem as a Roman city, and banned Jews from entering it. Thus the Jewish state ceased to exist until _________

Answer 30

1948

Question 31

The New Testament means...

Answer 31

New Covenant

Question 32

_________ was the legal language of the Roman Empire

Answer 32

Latin

Question 33

The Jews had picked up ______ a sister language to their traditional Herbrew, during the exhile

Answer 33

Aramaic

Question 34

The Jews despised the inhabitants of __________

Answer 34

Samaria

Question 35

________ was the primary means of commercial transportation

Answer 35

Water

Question 36

Writing materials for important manuscripts were leather or ________, but for letters and other documents, such things as, ____________, ________, __________

Answer 36

parchment, papyrus, ostraca, wax tablets

Question 37

A strong _________ __________ did not exist because slaves did most of the work

Answer 37

middle class

Question 38

Tax collectors were called __________

Answer 38

publicans

Question 39

The Roman overlords _______ the job of tax collecting to the one who bid the lowest rate of commission for a contract

Answer 39

auctioned

Question 40

A number of slaves bought their freedom, sometimes in the name of a god of the temple where they banked their savings; a procedure known as ______ __________

Answer 40

sacral manumission

Question 41

The technical term for marriage between relatives; _________ kept property and other forms of wealth within the clan

Answer 41

Endogamy

Question 42

Both contraception and ________ were practiced by the Greco-Roman family

Answer 42

abortion

Question 43

After birth, a Jewish boy was circumcised and named on the ________ day

Answer 43

eighth

Question 44

The average lifespan of men was _________ years and __________ years for women

Answer 44

40, 34

Question 45

The construction of pavement and public buildings were often financed by the _________

Answer 45

wealthy

Question 46

The term ______ _______ means a personality largely determined by others instead of being yourself

Answer 46

dyadic personality

Question 47

The librarian at Alexandria who accurately calculated the Earth's circumference as well as the distance to the sun was ___________

Answer 47

Eratosthenes

Question 48

Atop the Greek pantheon or hierarchy of gods sat _________

Answer 48

Zeus

Question 49

Jews were the most sought after exorcists, largely because they alone could correctly pronounce the magical potent name _________

Answer 49

Yahweh

Question 50

In a practice known as _________ pagan people simply combined various religious beliefs and superstitious practices

Answer 50

Syncretism

Question 51

The suppression of bodily passions because of their connection with evil matter is known as ___________

Answer 51

asceticism

Question 52

The indulgence of bodily passions because of the transience and consequent unimportance of matter is known as ________ or _________

Answer 52

libertinism, sensualism

Question 53

Gnosticism comes from gnosis, the Greek word for ___________

Answer 53

knowledge

Question 54

__________ taught dutiful acceptance of one's fate as determined by an impersonal Reason that rules the universe

Answer 54

Stoicism

Question 55

_______ regarded the supreme virtue as a simple, unconventional life in rejection of the popular pursuits of comfort

Answer 55

cynicism

Question 56

The "golden text" of Judaism was the _________

Answer 56

Shema

Question 57

A loose oral translation into Aramaic, which many Jews understood better than Hebrew was a ___________

Answer 57

Targum

Question 58

A great expense, _______ _________ ________ had the temple beautified even beyond the glory of the first temple

Answer 58

Herod The Great

Question 59

The temple stood in a court that covered about ______ acres of the ground

Answer 59

26

Question 60

Inside the first room stood three pieces of furniture; the ___________ and __________ and ____________

Answer 60

menorah, table, altar

Question 61

Although it had disappeared long ago, the ________ __________ _________ was the only piece of furniture allowed in the holiest of holies

Answer 61

Ark of the Covenant

Question 62

The high priest entered the holiest of holies one day a year; the day of ____________

Answer 62

Atonement

Question 63

The Jewish civil year began in __________

Answer 63

Spetember-October

Question 64

The Jewish religious year began ____________

Answer 64

March-April

Question 65

The __________ books of the Old Testament contain mainly history, fiction, and wisdom

Answer 65

Apocryphal

Question 66

Thus, _______ means "hidden secret"

Answer 66

apocrypha

Question 67

The _______ ________ _________ were approximately eight hundred scrolls discovered in caves near the ruins of ____________

Answer 67

Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran

Question 68

The Talmud consists of the _________ or oral law

Answer 68

Mishnah

Question 69

Jewish beliefs sprang from the _____ _____ ______ not paganism or mythology, mysticism or philosophic explanation

Answer 69

acts of God

Question 70

The _________ meant "separated ones"

Answer 70

Pharisees

Question 71

Though fewer than the Pharisees, the ________ wielded more political influence because they controlled the priesthood

Answer 71

Sadducees

Question 72

__________ may have originally meant "members of the supreme counsel"

Answer 72

Sadducees

Question 73

A small sect of four thousand, some of the ___________ lived in monastic communities

Answer 73

Essenes

Question 74

The ________ did not offer animal sacrifices in the temple at Jerusalem, because they regarded it as polluted by a corrupt priesthood

Answer 74

Essenes

Question 75

The ________ seem to have been a small minority of influential Jews who supported the Herodian dynasty

Answer 75

Herodians

Question 76

Revolutionaries dedicated to overthrow the Roman power, and refused to pay taxes to Rome were known as _________

Answer 76

Herodians

Question 77

The Jewish supreme court was known as the Great _________

Answer 77

Sanhedrin

Question 78

The _________ Jews retained their Judaistic faith and their Jewish language and customs and incurred Gentile hatred for their Hellenists who adopted the Greek language and customs

Answer 78

Hebraist

Question 79

Gentiles who became converts to Judaism were called _________

Answer 79

proselytes