New Testament Ch 1 Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Among the criteria historians have developed to study the historical Jesus are consistency, convergence and 2 more. Pick the other two: _________ and __________. | Originality; Linguistic Analysis |
| This type of criticism compares the minor changes and mistakes the copyists made down through the centuries so that the translations we have today are as accurate as possible. __________ | Textual |
| Give the two English translations of the Bible used by Catholics today ________ and _______. | American; Jerusalem |
| A type of criticism that focuses on evangelists as editors and how and why they arranged their sources the way they did. _________ | Redact(ion) |
| The Latin translation of the Bible began in the year ________ and it is called the ________. | 383 AD; vulgate |
| This term means "to edit for publication". _________ | Redact(ion) |
| This type of criticism helps us read the Gospels intelligently and identify the genre of a particular text. _______ | Form |
| A passage where Jesus confronts his opponents ________. | Controversy |
| A deliberately exaggerated saying _______. | hyperbole |
| A vivid short story, conveys religious truth _______. | Parable |
| Unique to John, Jesus reveals his identity. _________ | revelation discourse |
| It was _______ who "invented" the Gospel form of literature. | Mark |
| Matthew used his own sources to compose his Gospel and two others. _____ and _____. | Q/Quelle; Mark |
| Luke used his own sources to compose his Gospel and two others. ________ and ________. | Mark; Q/Quelle |
| The Greek "synoptikos" means ________. | seen together |
| Which document used by two Gospel writers is hypothetical? | Q/Quelle |
| The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke are known as the ______ Gospels. | Synoptic |
| The three general criteria the Magisterium has given commentators to help them interpret sacred scripture according to the Spirit who inspired it are: 1) Pay attention to the __________ of the _________ scripture. | Content and unity; whole |
| Look at the scripture within "the living ________ of the whole Church". | Tradition |
| Be attentive to the _______ of our beliefs | Logical relationship |
| Scholars theorize that the authors of Matthew and Luke drew on a common source known as ________ from the German meaning source. | Q/Quelle |
| This type of criticism tries to determine "what" the New Testament writers used to compose their works. __________ | Source |
| _________ criticism first attempts to discover what the evangelists really wanted to say when they wrote a particular text. This is called the _______ sense of the text. | Historical; Literal |
| There were 3 forms of oral preaching. The first preaching about Jesus which was given to unbelievers is called ________. | Kerygma |
| Another form of preaching was actually in depth teaching known as ________. | Didache |
| The third form of oral preaching was actually given through the ___________ of Christians. | Worship |
| By AD _____(year), the four Gospels, the Pauline ______, ___________ and some other letters were generally accepted as inspired. | 200; Letters; Acts |
| By the year AD _____, Church Father, St _________ established the New Testament canon at the present 27 books. | 367; Athanasius |
| The ________ of the Bible refers to the official list of books the Church considers _________ writings. | Canon; Inspiration / Inspired |
| God chose men and made use of their ________ to write what He intended. | Abilities |
| __________ refers to the Holy Spirit teaching truth thorough the individual authors of the book of the Bible. | Inspiration / Inspired |
| It is correct to say that Jesus is the _______ of the New Testament, and that this "one" is between God and all ___________. | Covenant; Humanity |
| ________ was the word Jewish scholars from the third century BC used to mean "covenant". | Testament |
| _______ is the Greek word for Torah | Septuagint |
| The Jewish historian, _________, did not question the ________ existence of Jesus. | Josephus; Historical |
| In 115 AD, the Roman historian, ____________ refers to the depraved Christians and their originator, Christ. | Tacitus |
| This Christ had been executed during the reign of Emperor _______, by the governor of Judea, _________. | Tiberius; Pontius Pilate |
| __________ wrote letters to the Emperor _________ for advice on how to deal with the "superstition" practiced by Christians. | Pliny the Younger; Trajan |
| WRITE OUT The Church included books in the New Testament that met what three criteria? | 1) Wide spread Acceptance 2) Conformity to the Rule of faith 3) Apostolic Origin |
| WRITE OUT The three stages involved in the formation of the Gospels are: (include dates) | 1) Public life and preaching of Jesus = 4-6 BC; 30-33 AD 2) Oral Tradition = 30-50 AD 3) The New Testament = 50-120 AD |
| WRITE OUT Eventually the oral preaching about Jesus and his teachings had to be committed to writing for what three major reasons? | 1) The end of the world wasn't coming as quickly as they thought it would. 2) Heresies were settling in 3) Started to receive all info. from 1 source - Magisterium |
| What is the relationship between the 3 Gospel writers? | Mark -M (Matthew) -L (Luke) - Q |
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