From Jesus to the Gospels Test Bank Docx Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 01

1. According to the textbook, when did Christianity begin?

a. with Jesus ministry

b. with Jesus’ birth

c. when Jesus called his disciples

d. with the belief in Jesus’ resurrection

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 02

2. In the New Testament, who claims to have seen Jesus after his death?

a. Paul

b. Josephus

c. the centurion at the cross

d. Martha

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 03

3. According to all of the New Testament Gospels, who discovered the empty tomb?

a. the Jews

b. Peter

c. women

d. Paul

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 04

4. The first people to believe in Jesus’ resurrection were probably _____.

a. his closest followers

b. the Jews

c. Paul

d. the demons

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 05

5. In the years immediately after his death, Jesus’ followers called him all of the following except _____.

a. the Son of God

b. the Son of Man

c. pre-existent

d. the messiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 06

6. The earliest Christians used which of the following to explain Jesus’ messiahship?

a. the Talmud

b. the New Testament

c. The Antiquities of the Jews

d. Hebrew Scripture

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 07

7. In contrast to most Jews’ expectations, Christians came to believe that the messiah was _____.

a. a powerful king

b. a priestly figure

c. an innocent suffering man

d. Elijah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 08

8. Scholars refer to the passages in Isaiah that (according to early Christians) prophesied Jesus’ passion as _____.

a. Songs of the Suffering Servant

b. Prophecies about Jesus

c. Passion passages

d. Messianic Psalms

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 09

9. The idea of the “Son of Man” first appears in _____.

a. Paul

b. Jesus’ teachings

c. the New Testament Gospels

d. the book of Daniel

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 10

10. Jews expected the Son of Man to be _____.

a. Jesus

b. a cosmic judge

c. God

d. King David

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 11

11. Which of the following likely helped Christians understand Jesus’ suffering as vicarious?

a. Jewish martyrs

b. Elijah

c. King David

d. Revelation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 12

12. In pagan circles, the term “messiah” literally meant _____.

a. a savior

b. a person anointed with oil

c. Jesus

d. a cosmic judge

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 13

13. Christians modified or created stories about Jesus to do all of the following except _____.

a. convert people

b. educate people

c. deceive people

d. encourage people

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 14

14. Many scholars have suggested that Christianity is the religion _____.

a. of Jesus

b. against Jesus

c. of John the Baptist

d. about Jesus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 15

15. Jesus’ earliest followers _____.

a. rejected Jesus’ apocalyptic beliefs

b. accepted Jesus’ apocalyptic beliefs

c. denied Jesus’ bodily resurrection

d. doubted Jesus’ messiahship

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 16

16. Jesus’ earliest followers believed that _____.

a. Jesus had been raised from the dead for a short period of time

b. Jesus had not been raised from the dead

c. a holy man raised Jesus from the dead

d. Jesus had been raised from the dead never to die again

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 17

17. Jesus’ followers interpreted his death and resurrection _____.

a. as the plan of God

b. as a lie

c. as a victory of evil over good

d. as the work of the devil

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 18

18. After Jesus’ resurrection, Christians believed that _____.

a. he would remain on earth until the Son of Man came

b. he would wait with Christians in purgatory until the Son of Man came

c. he had been exalted to heaven

d. he died again

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 19

19. After Jesus’ death, apocalyptic Christians focused on all of the following except _____.

a. Jesus’ relationship with God

b. Jesus’ teachings on the Son of Man

c. Jesus’ teachings on the kingdom of God

d. Jesus’ teachings on divorce

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 20

20. Christians used Psalms of _____ to show that Jesus was the messiah.

a. Triumph

b. Lament

c. Victory

d. Coronation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 21

21. The account of the Jewish warrior Eleazar, who attacked an elephant believed to be carrying the King of Syria (an enemy of God) and is crushed to death, is given in _____.

a. 1 Maccabees

b. Jude

c. Leviticus

d. 2 Peter

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 22

22. In his reference to Jesus’ resurrection, Paul reveals that _____.

a. women were the first witnesses

b. the tomb was empty

c. some of Jesus’ closest followers believed he was raised from the dead

d. he was suspicious of this claim

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 23

23. Which of the following women is not named by a Gospel as being among those at Jesus’ empty tomb?

a. Martha

b. Joanna

c. Mary Magdalene

d. Salome

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 24

24. For apocalyptic Jews, which of the following was not typically associated with the end of the age?

a. the resurrection of the dead

b. the kingdom of God

c. the arrival of the Son of Man

d. the death of the messiah

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 25

25. Ancient Jews would have understood “Son of God” to mean which of the following?

a. king of Israel

b. divine human

c. cosmic son of man

d. beautiful human being

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 26

26. Jesus’ cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” is the first line from _____.

a. the Song of the Suffering Servant

b. Psalm 22

c. Daniel’s Son of Man passage

d. Lamentations

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 27

27. Who among the following serves as an example of vicarious suffering in pagan tradition?

a. Heracles

b. Joseph of Arimathea

c. Alcestis

d. Apollo

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 28

28. Different early Christians communities thought Jesus attained Son of God status at all of the following points except _____.

a. at his birth

b. at his baptism

c. at his first miracle

d. at his resurrection

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 29

29. Which of the following helped minimize the diversity of early Christian depictions of Jesus?

a. the creation of the New Testament canon

b. the Gospel of Peter

c. use of the Jewish Scriptures

d. eyewitness accounts of the disciples

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 30

30. Christians believed Jesus’ role after the resurrection included all of the following except_____.

a. missionary to the Gentiles

b. cosmic judge

c. unique Son of God

d. exalted ruler

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 01

1. When did Christianity began? Why?

Feedback: Students may choose a number of starting points: Jesus’ birth, his baptism, his ministry, his death, his resurrection, or when people believed in the resurrection. They should deal with the problems inherent in their choice.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 02

2. How did the earliest Christians understand Jesus’ resurrection? How did this event confirm their apocalyptic worldview?

Feedback: Because Jesus’ earliest followers were apocalyptically minded, this worldview affected their understanding of the resurrection. They believed that a cosmic battle was being waged between Satan and God, and Jesus’ resurrection signaled the beginning of the end. Christian apocalypticists believed that Jesus’ resurrection signaled the coming of the general resurrection that would accompany the end of the age.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 03

3. Who do the Gospels portray as having discovered the empty tomb. How does this relate to Paul’s testimony about the evidence of the resurrection in 1 Corinthians? Why does it matter?

Feedback: The Gospels all portray the empty tomb being discovered by women, specifically Mary Magdalene along with a combination of other women. But Paul does not mention an empty tomb tradition at all, instead citing post-resurrection appearances to male disciples. Some feminist historians have argued that the Gospels preserve an early, inescapable tradition about women initially discovering the empty tomb. Other feminist scholars, however, argue that this was a device of the Gospels to explain why later believers had not heard of the empty tomb: it had been discovered by women who were either too giddy or too frightened to tell anyone or were otherwise not believed.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 04

4. Discuss why early Christians might have used passages from the Hebrew Bible to provide evidence of Jesus’ true identity. In particular, discuss the suffering motif in the Psalms and in Isaiah.

Feedback: Because Jesus’ earliest followers believed he was the Jewish messiah, they had to find ways to argue their case against general expectations of the messiah. Some Jews thought the messiah would be a king or a priest or a cosmic judge, but none, so far as we know, believed he would suffer and die. Christians, then, had to find scriptural evidence for their suffering messiah. They turned to Psalms of Lament and the Suffering Servant passages in Isaiah to show that the Jewish Scriptures prophesied that the messiah would be a righteous man who would be rejected and persecuted.

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 01

1. When did Christianity begin?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 02

2. What evidence does Paul provide regarding early Christian belief in the resurrection? How does this evidence coincide with the Gospel accounts?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 03

3. How would an apocalyptic Jew who came to believe that Jesus was raised from the dead understand the significance of the resurrection? What would it suggest about the kingdom of God?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 04

4. How did Jesus’ followers’ understandings of him change after they came to believe he had been raised from the dead?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 05

5. What are some of the different understandings of Jesus that arose among his followers after his death?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 06

6. Why would early Jews have difficulty accepting Jesus as their anticipated messiah?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 07

7. How did the Jewish Bible help early Christians understand and portray Jesus as the messiah?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 08

8. What should we think about the tradition of women finding the empty tomb in the Gospels? Why is this detail important, and why would the Gospels preserve it?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 09

9. Do the traditions about the women and the empty tomb elevate or denigrate the status of women? Why?

Type: essay/short answer question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 10

10. What is “vicarious suffering”? What might have influenced early Christian use of this notion?