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| matthew or luke. this evangelist begins his gospel with a genealogy to show that Jesus is a descendant of Abraham and King David | matthew |
| m or l. this evangelist focuses on joseph who experiences God in a dream telling him that he should take mary as his wife becuz the son she carries in her womb was conceived through the holy spirit | matthew |
| m or l.this traces the genealogy of jesus beginning with Jesus and going back to Adam, the universe human | luke |
| m or l. this evangelist consturctrs his infancy narrative as a story of the births of John the Baptist and jesus presented in tandem to show that jesus is the greater of the two | luke |
| m or l. this evangelist was probably a jewish scribe b4 becoming a christian | matthew |
| m or l. this evangelist tels the story of the Magi, foreign astrologers who recognize the significance of Jesus' birth and bring gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. | matthew |
| m or l. this evangelist centers his story around mary ecuz mary had no social status and yet she, not the great and powerful, was ready to accept God's will. This shows God's universal offer of salvation | luke |
| t or f. the sermon on the mt., which contains the beatitudes, is one of five discourse sections matthew's gospel. | true |
| t or f. the gospel of matthew is organized into five sections, suggesting that the evangelist may have written his gospel as a "mini-Torah" about the Messiah | true |
| t or f. the author of the gospel of Matthew is the apostle of jesus called matthew, the former tax collector. | false |
| t or f. the placement of jesus' teaching of the beatitudes on a mount signifies that the teaching is a revelation of God, much in the same way that God revealed himself to Moses. | true |
| t or f. matthew's gospel teaches us that it is acceptable to hate our enemies as long as we dont talk about them in front of their face. | false |
| t or f. the "poor in spirit" in the first beatitude are those people who dont pray enuff. | false |
| t or f. the beatitudes express "attitudes" which followers of Christ should have if they wish to enter God's kingdom. | true |
| t or f. "those who mourn" in the second beatitude can b those who feel sorrow becuz of evil in the world or becuz of the death of a loved one, or even becuz of their sinfulness | true |
| t or f. the "meek" in the beatitudes are those who are the gentle or unassuming, who respect others and the enfironment, and who put God's will b4 their own | true |
| t or f. those who "hunger and thirst for righteousness" are those who live according to God's covenant of love and who seek justice for all people | true |
| t or f. the "merciful" in the beatitudes could b interpreted as those who do the right thing to help their neighborhood in need | true |
| t or f. the "peacemakers" in the beatitudes are those who carefully avoid any involvement in situations fo conflict or disagreement. | false |
| t or f. the "persecuted" in the beatitudes could b aiemd at those sufferers in m's community becuz of persecution of Christians and jes that followd the destruction of the temple in 70 C E. | true |
| t or f. matthew's account of jesus calming the the storm at sea and walking on water are ex: of nature miracles. | true |
| t or f. for the jewish ppl, bodily fluids were cause for fear; such disengration of the body suggested the chaos of the universe b4 creation began. | true |
| t or f. the lepers in jesus' day were outcasts in israel; this is similar to a person with AIDS in our society today who might b rejected by ignorant ppl. | true |
| t or f. matthew's godspel emphasizes jesus' miraculous powers much more than it emphasizes the power of God's Word and the response of faith to bring about healing or new life. | false |
| t or f. the early jewish-christians would have cared deeply about jesus as the fulfillment of prophecies in the hebrew scriptures. | true |
| t or f. the gospel of matthew tells us that the leaders of hte christian community must be held to the highest standards. | true |
| to or f. matthew's gospel makes it clear that divorce is allowed only for a serious reason such as phsycial abuse of one's spouse. | false |
| p or a. there is only one interpretation that is given | allegory |
| p or a. there is no length or realism required. | allegory |
| p or a. a short story drawn from ordinary life that makes a comparison w/a religious message | parable |
| p or a. they sometimes used ordinary images in strange or unusual ways. | parable |
| p or a. the stroy as a whole applies metaphorically to God's reign | parable |
| p or a. each elemtent of the story has one to one correspondence with something else outside of the story. | allegory |
| the story bout how the woman mixed yeast with flour explains what about god? | god's kingdom is a mixture of things |
| in the parable of the unforgiving servant means what about god? | if god can forgive us who owe God everything, we must forgive one another |
| one clue that matthew waws writing to a jewish-christian audience is that he refers to the "place" of eternal reward as the kingdom of ________. | heaven |
| the sermon on the mount is a classical ex: of a type of teaching called _______. | didache |
| the account of ejsus' birth in matthew's gospel is presented in the form of a story, or a ________. | narrative |
| most biblical scholars agree that the gospel of matthew was written in the _____. | 80's |
| a day of preparing one's household for the passover celebration was called _________. | preparation day |
| the most likely places the gospel of matthw was written are _____________. | palestine, syria, antioch |
| the greek word for church which is found only in matthew's gospel is ________. | ekklesia |
| matthew's gospel refers to this small object which is worn on the upper arm or on the forehead and which contained a small scroll w/the Shema Israel prayer inside. it is called the ________. | phylactery |
| matthew was prob. a former jewish scribe who was writing for j-c audience, wrote his gospels outside of jerusalem, adn wrote sometime after the year 70. name sumpthin false | he was an eyewitness of the event in jesus' life that he describes |
| matthew's gospel became the most popular gospel in the early church. what one not reason for the popularity? | it is the only gospel which is historically accurate |
| what is not found in Matthew's Sermon on the Mt? | the greastest commandment to love God and love one's neighbor as oneself. |
| t or f. according to christian belief, jesus is the new covenant. | true |
| t or f. early christians believed that jesus would return in about 2000 years. | false |
| t or f. liturgy was one way that early church recounted teh words and deeds of jesus, and it was an important part of the development of the gospels. | true |
| t or f. the passover celebrated the jewish liberation from Babylon after the Babylonian Captivity. | false |
| t or f. the greek word "christos" is a translation of the hewbrew word "masiah" (messiah) and means "anointed one" | true |
| t or f. thre are thre synoptic gospels which you can find in a book of gospel parallels: Mark, Jogn and Matthew. | false |
| the word from Hebrew which was later translated as "testament" | covenant |
| refers to the preaching to unbelievers and to the core message of faith | kerygma |
| the historical Jesus lived at this time | 6 BC - 30 AD |
| a group which violently opposed the Roman occupation of Palestine | Zealots |
| lists all the occurences of a word in the bible | concordance |
| further instruction/teaching for those who accepted jesus, but who were not yet baptized | didache |
| the name for God which could not be pronounced aloud, even during Jesus' day. | Yahweh |
| priestly group; aristrocrats who supervised Temple practices and worship | sadducees |
| jesus was most like this group of jewish reformers and interpreters of the law | pharisees |
| a prayer meeting house that was found in every Jewish community of ten or more men and their families | synagogue |
| this meant in efect that the entire region of the Empire was under a single rule and no wars were taking place anywhere | Pax Romana |
| Pontius Pilate's job title was a ________; he was to collect taxes, confirm death sentences, to keep the peace and to report to Rome about the general state of affairs. | Roman prefect |
| jesus' home town (not his birthplace) | nazareth |
| a freshwater "sea" in northern israel (actually a large lake) which narrows into a fertile valley | sea of galilee |
| this man was responsible for beheading john the baptist | herod antipas |
| the day of atonement, when a scapegoat was sent by the high priest into the desert to carry the sins of the people | Yom Kippur |
| Means "messenger" | angel |
| the second coming | Parousia |
| many pharisees were also ______, experts in Jewish law who often wrote their own interpretations | scribes |
| the prophet who first talked about the resurrection from the dead | Daniel |
| believing in and keeping the ______ was the heart of Jewish life | Torah |
| the major law-making body and supreme court of Judaism | Sanhedrin |
| refers to the acceptance of God's will by everyone; a "relationship" mreo than a place | reign of god |
| an important Jewish historian | Josephus |
| a monastic group which lived at Qumran where the famous "Qumran scrolls" were discovered; John the Baptist may have once been a member | Essenes |
| t or f. the scriptures for Jesus and the disciples he called in his lifetime were the Hebrew scriptures alone | true |
| t or f. the first translation of both old and new testaments into a language differnt from the original languages was called the Vulgate | true |
| t or f. Kind David symbolized for the Jews the hope that one day Yahweh would send a Messiah | true |
| t or f. second isaiah prohpesied that God would send a servant-messiah whou would save the ppl | true |
| t or f. jesus was broin nazareth which is also King David's birthplace | false |
| t or f. jesus was a Jew until he became Christian. | false |
| t or f. a central theme of the historical jesus' teaching was that the reign of gos is at hand (close). | true |
| t or f. jesus fulfilled the law by observing and respecting the Torah, but he always put ppl and their needs first even if it meant "breaking" a law. | true |
| t or f. jesus' covenant was "signed and sealed" by his death on the cross | true |
| t or f. most of the years of jesus' life were very public; only a short time was "hidden" | false |
| teh most important ______ is the mass or the eucharist for christians. in the first of these ritual celebrations, the words and deeds of jesus were verbally recounted and remebered. | liturgy |
| the words "eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani" spoken by jesus on the cross (what languugage??) | aramaic |
| you would use this referece work to compare the gospel of luke with the gospels of matthew and mark | gospel parallels |
| twenty seven books made up the official ____ of the NT. | canon |
| ______ means "common" greek; that is it was the everyday language of most of the empire | koine greek |
| the new jerusalem bible is available in french and english; this is the bible in ________ rather than in the original languages of the OT and NT. | translation |
| the first translation of the entire bible from its original languages into antoehr language was done by st. jerome and its called the ________. | vulgate |
| green's class is continuing education for believers who have already been baptized as well as non-christians who are intersted in the catholic tradition. this is called _______. | catechesis |
| i saw a vision of the lord in the temple and hte experience changed my life | first isaiah |
| around 740 BC, preached in southern kingdom wrote message of hope, coming of new messiah, and spoke against pride, idolatry, fasle worship, and especially cruelty to the poor | amos |
| i went to heaven in a chariout of fire | elijah |
| i was a poet and a politician, at ease in the king's court | first isaiah |
| i said, " let justice flow like water, uprightness like a never-failing stream" | amos |
| in 750 BC, preached in northern kingdom of israel; book in poetic verse which accuses king a ppl of israel for unfaithfulness and injusitce. sins of genocide, cruelty to the poor,k anger, dishonesty, greed, sexual excess, violence, and pride | amos |
| i was a "minor" prophet | amos |
| i was a "speaking" prophet | elijah |
| i was a prophet who used the image of suffering servant to talk about the coming of the new messiah | 2nd isaiah |
| i was an urban (city) prophet of hope who preached to the aristocracy | first isaiah |
| i proclaimd that teh messiah would be called prince of peace, wonder-counselor | first isaiah |
| i lived in babylon at the end of the babylonian captivity when th enew persian emperor cyrus, issued the edict of toleration | second isaiah |
| i am sometimes referred to as the prophet of social justice | amos |
| i lived during the reigns of four different kings of israel | first isaiah |
| i challenged ahab's pagan prophets to prove that their gods were more powerful than Yahweh | elijah |
| my name means, "my god is yahweh" | elijah |
| the prophet isaiah is a _________ becuz the book named after him is a long book. | major prophet |
| a hebrew word for prophet tha tliterally means "mouthpiece" | nabi |
| the book of amos is considred to be among the _______ becuz it was written after historical books of the bible during the time of Jeroboam II. | later prophets |
| she brought the false gods of the Phoenicians to he husband's kingdom of northern Israel adn then condemned of one of Israel's most famous prophets. who was she? | jezebel |
| elijah is counted among the ________ becuz, even tho he had an important message, no book was named after him. | speaking prophet |
| elijah predicted the deaht of ahaziah, the king and son of ahab, becuz he consulted the pagan god ______. | Baal-Zebub |
| he was a sheperd and a tree farmer from Tekoa, near bethlehem in the southern kingdom until god's call directed him to preach to the northen kingdom | amos |
| he symbolizes the prophets as moses symbolizes the law. who is he? | elijah |
| t or f. the prophets wanted to abandon the old covenant in favor of a new one. | false |
| t or f. the primary and most impo voaction of a prophet was to read the signs of hte times that concerned teh present and near future. | true |
| the prophets received God's word in strange dreams, visions, in private prayer and in many other ways | true |
| t or f. the prophets were all ppl of wealth and nobility | false |
| the prophets felt complelled to speak God's word, and they did so only by preaching | false |
| t or f. later prophets spoke of a messiah who would come. | true |
| t or f. the prophets were tolerant of the worship of other gods. | false |
| t or f. the prophet usuallys tood along and was unpopular with the establishment | true |
| t or f. there are more major prophets than there are minor prophets. | false |
| t or f. first isaiah believed that he would die after seeing God, but he lived to proclaim God's word. | true |
| t or f. first isiah believed that he would die after seeing God, but he lived to proclaim god's word. | true |
| t or f. all prophets offer a dark vision of despair, a vision of gloom and doom. | false |
| t or f. prophts always died horrible, violent deaths | false |
| t or f. minor prophets are so called becuz their message is not impo as the message of a major prophet. | false |
| t or f. "court prophets" were pro prophets, and usually were among the least trustworthy and unrealiable prophets. | true |
| t or f. the idea of a "remnant" was that there would b those who would do the will of God, evein they were a small number. | true |
| _____ coveted (wrongfully desired Naboth's vineyard? Naboth a poor man refused to surrender his rightful claim to his vineyard to this evil king so Jezebel arranged to have him killed. | ahab |
| the _____ would b a descendent of David. | messiah |
| tradition holds that ______ , son of hezekiah (king of israel) killed isaiah of jerusalem | manessah |
| the ____ was an imp belief professed by both amos and isaiah becuz teh messiah would come as a result of hte covenant-keeping faith of these ppl, even if they were few in number. | third key theme |
| there is ony on true god, yahweh | first key theme |
| t or f. the books of joshua and judges span the period of time form the death of moses to the beginning of the monarchy. | true |
| t or f. joshua is portrayed as an epic hero, a moses w/out a flaw. | true |
| t or f. as in the book of deuteronomy, success came in the books of joshua and judges as a result obeying God's commands. | true |
| t or f. in the book of judges the israelite's major sin was intermarrying with the canaanite women. | false |
| t or f. the book of judges is well named; it deals, in great part, with the israelite judges. | true |
| the hero of the book in which israelites enter the promised land with ease, his victory was swift and sure | joshua |
| the young judge who felt that he lacked the experience needed to be a judge; god made him successful neway until he accepted gold from his ppl | gideon |
| a loosely organized union of tribes or states that have common beliefs or goals. | confederacy |
| a theological way fo understanding the events of the books of deuternonmy, joshua, adn judges that can b described as :"Obedience to God's will yields rewards; disobdience yields punishment." | deuteronomic history |
| total destruction of an enemy, including all ppl of all ages and walks of life, and destruction of all homes and possessions | ban |
| a prostitute who was instrumentl in saving the ppl of Israel; seh is listed in the genealogy of jesus in the gospel of matthew | rahab |
| a pattern in israel that bean w/teh neglect of the poor and turning away from god; and then after punishment, the ppl cried to god for mercy and he helped them again, only to start all over again | cycle of apostasy |
| the judge who commands the israelite general, Barak, to lead the israelites in a holy war to victory against their enemies. | deborah |
| t or f. scripture scholars are certain that the story of ruth is historically accurate in every detail | false |
| t or f. one view of the story of ruth is that it was written during a time when official policy barred intermarriage with foreign women. | true. |
| t or f. an unusual aspect of the book of Ruth is that teh women in the story to be "in charge" rather than the men. | true |
| t or f. naomi helped to arrange the marriage of ruth to boaz telling ruth to go to the threshing floor and to sleep at boaz's feet under the end of his blanket. | true |
| t or f. widows had extensive legal rights in israel in ancient times. | false |
| the daughter in law of naomi who returned to her family in moab after her husband died. | orpah |
| he took his family to the plain of moab during a severe famine in the land of canine. | elimilech |
| this person said, "wherever you go i will go....your ppl shall b my ppl, and your god my god." | ruth |
| landowners in israel would leave some grain in their fields for these, the poorest of the poor, to glean as a sign's of god's loving mercy. who are these poor? | the widows and orphans |
| ruth's second husband, and the one who took over the estate of naomi's husband. | boaz |
| "i was a prophet chosen to anoint and guide the first two kings of the hebrews" | samuel |
| "i was the wife of king david and bore his successor, solomon." | bathsheba |
| " i was dancing for yahweh, not for the women in the crowd." | david |
| "i plotted agaisnt my father, hoping ot overhtrow him and become kign, but as i was killed instead. my father grieved pitiously, wishin he had died instead of me." | absalom |
| "i was a great phillistine warrior until a little punk with a slingshot killed me." | goliath |
| a name that means anointed one | messiah |
| the hebrew word for ban | herem |
| "i am the prophet who revealed to david the seriousness of his sins of adultery and murder" | nathan |
| the hebew word for god's covenant love for god's ppl; reflected in ruth's loyalty to her mother in law. naomi, and jonathona's loyalty to david. | hesed |
| "i was told that i and my household wuld lose the kingship becuz i failed to carry out the ban fully" | saul |
| "i conquered jersualme,a jebusite city, and made it israel's capital." | david |
| "i was the king of the amalekites until the king of israel nearly destroyed my ppl" | agag |
| "i was the son of the king, by my loyalty was not only w/my father but also with my bff whom i loved as myself' | jonathan |
| "i was the youngest son of jesse" | david |
| "even tho i was anointed king, yahweh rejected me becuz i did not carry out the ban" | saul |
| "i was afraid to go the hosue of jesse to anoint a new king, for fear that the king would kill me" | samuel |
| "i was saul's daughter and the first wife of david" | michal. |
| "i was david's general; i killed saul's general after saul's death against the wishes of my king' | joab |
| while saul was losing to the phillistine's he restored to a practice of summoning the dead; this unacceptable practice was called _________. | necromancy |
| the title ______ in the OT represents Israel who participaed in the divind life of yahweh | messiah |
| after the time of ____, the concept of messianism became royal; the king and the messiah were understood to be one and the same | kind david |
| the ____ will be a restoration of paradise, a moral regeneration of the kingdom of israel | messianic age |
