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| According to an essay by Andrew T. Lincoln (10/24), the climax of the fourth gospel (John) is: |
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a) The death of Jesus.
b) The return—or ascent—of Jesus to the father.
c) The bodily resurrection of Jesus, prior to his ascension.
d) The changing of water into wine at Cana of Galilee. |
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| According to an essay by Hagner (Oct 17th), the “well-known discrepancies” between the resurrection narratives enhance their credibility because: |
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a) They aren’t really discrepancies after all.
b) They show that the resurrection is a mysterious, spiritual event.
c) They do not enhance the credibility of the narratives.
d) They point to a lack of any collusion on the part of the authors. |
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| According to class lecture last week, which of the following is not a common resurrection theme across all four gospels? |
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a) Jesus teaching a two-fold eschatological resurrection akin to that of Daniel 12:1-3.
b) Jesus’ ascension.
c) Jesus foretelling his own death and resurrection.
d) Jesus’ death, burial, empty tomb, and resurrection appearances. |
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| According to our class lecture (10/17), what do many modern critical readings of the resurrection narratives assume as the core belief of the early Christians which led to further “resurrection legends”? |
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a) That there was an empty tomb.
b) That Jesus had been exalted—that is, spiritually raised by God.
c) That Jesus had been literally and bodily raised from the dead.
d) That Jesus had become an angel and appeared in this guise. |
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| According to our class lecture (10/24), the resurrection narratives in Matthew’s gospel were characterized by which of the following (choose two): |
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a) The witness and commission of the disciples.
b) Universalism (i.e. the inclusion of social and religious outcasts).
c) Jesus’ authority over all the heavens and the earth.
d) The messianic secret. |
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| According to our class lecture last week, what do many modern critical readings of the resurrection narratives assume as the core belief of the early Christians which led to further “resurrection legends”? |
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a) That there was an empty tomb.
b) That Jesus had been exalted—that is, spiritually raised by God.
c) That Jesus had been literally and bodily raised from the dead.
d) That Jesus had become an angel and appeared in this guise. |
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| According to our class lecture, the “discrepancies” in the resurrection accounts are: |
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a) Able to be fully and conclusively resolved.
b) Absolute discrepancies that present significant problems for our doctrine of scripture.
c) Unimportant because they testify to the eyewitness character of the accounts.
d) At least potentially resolvable, even if we can’t do so conclusively. |
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| According to the author, it would have been easy for the Jews of Jesus’ day to believe in Jesus’ resurrection? |
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| Bryan characterizes the goal of resurrection (as portrayed in the OT and Jewish literature)… |
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A. …as mystical union with God.
B. …as the renewal of the whole world.
C. …as the vindication of Israel.
D. …as all of the above. |
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| Bryan notes that there were pockets of Greek culture that strongly believed in something like a biblical notion of eschatological resurrection |
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| In Bryan’s view, what is the primary context in which the notion of resurrection is first raised in the Old Testament? |
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A. In reference to the Messiah’s overcoming of the serpent (cf. Gen 3:15)?
B. In reference to individual resurrection in the age to come (cf. Dan 12:1-3).
C. In reference to God’s restoration of Israel from exile (cf. Ezek 37:12-14).
D. The notion of resurrection is not raised until after the close of the OT. |
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| In C.S. Lewis’ “The Seeing Eye,” the reason that the Russian could not locate God in outer space is: |
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a) God is not an object of human knowledge.
b) God is not located in space like created objects.
c) God is with us (immanent) but not beyond us (transcendent).
d) God is not especially fond of communists. |
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| Methodological naturalism…(note all that apply): |
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a) Says that miracles occur, but only very infrequently.
b) Entails that the universe is a closed system which exists and functions without God.
c) Is compatible with a Christian approach to historical studies.
d) Is often an undefended mode of thought in Western academic settings. |
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| Most Jews in Jesus’ day would have believed in a physical, bodily resurrection at the end of the age. |
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| The Christian belief in the resurrection did not represent a significant development of the traditional Jewish beliefs. |
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| The Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) chooses words that overwhelmingly favor belief in a bodily resurrection. |
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| The term used to describe the relation between Jesus’ resurrection and the final resurrection is “inaugurated eschatology”. |
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| There is no indication of any type of immortality until the latest portions of the Old Testament. |
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| This ancient Jewish scholar lived in Egypt and attempted to Platonize the Jewish religion: |
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a) Victor Frankl
b) Judas Maccabeus
c) Philo
d) Josephus |
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| What does Pannenberg say would provide the ultimate verification of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead? |
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A. Jesus’ return.
B. The general resurrection of all the dead.
C. The Cubs winning the World Series.
D. Historical verification that the tomb was empty. |
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| What is the one new supposition (i.e., the supposition that is itself not historically verifiable) that the resurrection hypothesis requires in order to count as a viable historical hypothesis, according to WL Craig? |
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a) The authenticity of the New Testament manuscripts.
b) The existence of God.
c) The acceptance of quantum mechanics.
d) Acceptance of the historical reliability of the Old Testament. |
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| What was one reason the Sadducees did not believe in any resurrection? |
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A. They knew the Romans did not think resurrection was possible.
B. They were very conservative and literalistic in their biblical interpretation.
C. They thought dying was actually a good thing.
D. They had a pathological fear of zombies. |
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| What were the two kinds of tradition the early Christians adduced as evidence of the resurrection of Jesus: |
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A. The shroud of Turin and stories of Jesus’ appearances.
B. The empty tomb and stories of Jesus’ appearances.
C. The predictions of Jesus and the empty tomb.
D. Jesus’ appearances and the sending of the Holy Spirit. |
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| Which OT verses have the most explicit mention of individual, eschatological resurrection? |
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Definition
A. Dan 12:1-3
B. Ezek 37:12-14
C. Job 14:14
D. Isaiah 52-53 |
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| Which gospel contains Jesus’ appearance to disciples on the road to Emmaus? |
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Definition
a) Matthew
b) Mark
c) Luke
d) John |
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| Which gospel says that a “young man” was present at the tomb (in contrast to the other gospels which say that it was an angel or angels)? |
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a) Matthew
b) Mark
c) Luke
d) John |
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| Which group of Jews did not believe in any sort of an afterlife? |
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a) The Pharisees
b) The Essenes
c) The Sadducees
d) The Hare Krishnas |
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| Which group of philosophers or religionists believed in an afterlife, but only one that did not include any type of bodily existence? |
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A. The Epicureans.
B. The Platonists.
C. The Stoics.
D. The Egyptian cult of Osiris. |
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| Which most properly characterizes the way resurrection is related to justification, according to our class lecture? |
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a) The resurrection proves that Jesus’ death on the cross was accepted by God as a sacrifice.
b) The resurrection of Jesus shows the future of God’s people, and is the basis of God’s declaration of our righteousness.
c) Justification is most properly related to the cross, while the sanctification is a correlate of the resurrection.
d) All of the above. |
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| Which one of the following says that to speak meaningfully about an event in the past, one must have access to a similar event in the present? |
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a) The principle of coherence.
b) Redaction criticism.
c) The principle of analogy.
d) The criterion of double dissimilarity. |
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| Which text was mentioned in class as Paul’s most explicit treatment of the question of post-mortem, pre-resurrection existence (i.e., the intermediate state)? |
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a) Phil 1:18-30
b) 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11
c) Galatians 4:1-7
d) Romans 4:1-25 |
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| Which thinkers, more than any others, shaped the ancient Greco-Roman beliefs about life after death? (Choose Two) |
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E. Pindar
F. Plato
G. Aquinas
H. Homer |
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| Which two factors show us that the resurrection accounts were not simply created for apologetic purposes: |
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a) The presence of women in all the accounts.
b) The fact that there are angels present.
c) The fact that they are based on oral tradition.
d) The lack of any embellishment with Old Testament passages. |
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| Which two principles of the Jesus Seminar’s historical study were discussed in class? |
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a) Protraction criticism
b) The Principle of Analogy
c) The Criterion of Double Dissimilarity
d) The Law of Large Numbers. |
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| Which two theological factors in the OT make resurrection belief a natural outgrowth? (Choose two) |
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E. God’s covenant love for his people.
F. The belief in Sheol as a shadowy underworld.
G. The problem of injustice in the world.
H. God’s sovereignty. |
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| Why does Jesus ascend and go away after the resurrection appearances, according to Bryan? |
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A. God had to leave time between Jesus’ resurrection and the renewal of all things, so that there would be an equal length of time before and after Jesus’ coming.
B. It was time to start the “Great Divine Clean Up.”
C. Bryan isn’t quite sure what the answer is. |
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| “Form-critical” analysis in NT studies refers to: |
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a) The assumption that most gospel texts were written to solve an issue in the early church and not to provide historical information about Jesus.
b) A key method employed by 20th century thinker Rudolf Bultmann.
c) The presupposition that the real Jesus was critical of the forms of contemporary Judaism.
d) All of the above.
e) a) and b) |
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