Chapter 3: The Jewish World of Early Christianity

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Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 01

1. Judaism was one of the religions in the Greco-Roman world. How was it similar to other (pagan) religions? How was it different?

Title: Chapter 03 Question 02

2. Discuss the events leading up to the Maccabean revolt. Was the revolt successful? What did it mean for Judaism at that time? What repercussions did the revolt have for Judaism in Palestine?

Title: Chapter 03 Question 03

3. Discuss how the four known Jewish sects differed.

Title: Chapter 03 Question 04

4. What set the Jewish Temple apart from other Greco-Roman temples? Discuss the significance of this difference and how it helped define the Jews as a people.

Title: Chapter 03 Question 01

1. Diaspora means _____.

a. Palestine

b. spread of Greek culture

c. dispersion

d. law

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 02

2. The Septuagint is _____.

a. the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible

b. a Roman Emperor

c. a region of the Greco-Roman world

d. a god

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 03

3. Which of the following was not unique to Judaism?

a. covenant

b. Torah

c. animal sacrifice

d. synagogue

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 04

4. “Torah” means _____.

a. guidance

b. separation

c. Judaism

d. dispersion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 05

5. The Pentateuch refers to _____.

a. the first five books of the Bible

b. the dispersion of Jews

c. an early group of Judaism

d. a household god

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 06

6. Ancient Jews believed that the special place of God’s presence was the _____.

a. synagogue

b. Torah

c. Holy of Holies

d. Dead Sea

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 07

7. Who was allowed to enter the Holy of Holies?

a. Essenes

b. Josephus

c. Jesus

d. high priest

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 08

8. The high priests of the Jerusalem Temple trace their lineage to which ancient priest?

a. Zadok

b. Josephus

c. Antiochus Epiphanes

d. Herod the Great

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 09

9. Which of the following activities did not take place in synagogues?

a. gathering of Jews

b. reading of scripture

c. offering of sacrifices

d. praying

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 10

10. Which of the following groups is not mentioned in the New Testament?

a. Pharisees

b. Sadducees

c. Essenes

c. Jews

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 11

11. Which group believed in the authority of the oral law?

a. Pharisees

b. Fourth Philosophy

c. Essenes

d. Sadducees

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 12

12. Which group left Jerusalem because they believed the Jewish leadership had gone astray?

a. Pharisees

b. Fourth Philosophy

c. Essenes

d. Josephus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 13

13. Which group urged armed rebellion against foreign powers in Palestine?

a. Pharisees

b. Fourth Philosophy

c. Sadducees

d. Josephus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 14

14. Which group was aristocratic and ran the Temple?

a. Pharisees

b. Fourth Philosophy

c. Sadducees

d. Essenes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 15

15. Who among the following was not a Jewish holy man?

a. Honi the circle-drawer

b. Jesus

c. Hanina ben-Dosa

d. Apollonius of Tyana

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 16

16. Jews in Palestine disliked the Syrian ruler Antiochus Epiphanes because _____.

a. he was not of the right priestly line

b. he required men to remove the marks of circumcision

c. he made infant circumcision illegal for Jews

d. he destroyed the temple

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 17

17. The Jewish response to Antiochus Epiphanes’ actions was _____.

a. a silent protest

b. the Maccabean revolt

c. the diaspora

d. conversion to Christianity

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 18

18. The Maccabean revolt began around the year _____.

a. 167 BCE

b. 167 CE

c. 586 BCE

d. 721 BCE

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 19

19. The Jewish holiday Hanukkah celebrates _____.

a. the Jews’ return to Palestine

b. the rededication of the Temple

c. the destruction of the second Temple

d. the right to circumcise baby boys

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 20

20. After eighty years of self-rule, the Hasmoneans were defeated in 63 BCE by the _____.

a. Greeks

b. Romans

c. Persians

d. Syrians

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 21

21. Who among the following did not rule in Palestine during the Roman period?

a. Zadok

b. Antipas

c. Pontius Pilate

d. Herod the Great

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 22

22. Who discussed the Jewish groups that emerged in the first century BCE?

a. Paul

b. Philo

c. Josephus

d. Tacitus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 23

23. Most Jews in Palestine were _____.

a. Pharisees

b. Sadducees

c. Essenes

d. unaffiliated

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 24

24. Which Jewish group wielded the most political power during Jesus’ life?

a. Pharisees

b. Sadducees

c. Essenes

d. Zealots

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 25

25. Most of the Jews in the diaspora stopped speaking the ancient tongue of Judea, which was _____.

a. Greek

b. Arabic

c. Aramaic

d. Hebrew

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 26

26. Which Jewish group disavowed the notion of the future resurrection of the dead?

a. Pharisees

b. Sadducees

c. Essenes

d. Fourth Philosophy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 27

27. The group of texts used by the Essenes is called _____.

a. the Nag Hammadi Library

b. the Dead Sea Scrolls

c. the oral law

d. the Torah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 28

28. Which of the following is not a major tenet of apocalypticism?

a. pessimism

b. militarism

c. vindication

d. imminence

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 29

29. The Jewish group that produced the Dead Sea Scrolls lived near _____.

a. Caesarea

b. Nazareth

c. Bethlehem

d. Qumran

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 30

30. The word “sicarii” comes from a word meaning _____.

a. zealot

b. dagger

c. Pharisee

d. traitor