New Testament Question (Better to have an understanding of New Testament)
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“Essay”—Complete Sentence answers
Give complete sentence replies to five of the following topics; provide specific and sufficient answers. You will need to be sure to indicate the number of each question you are answering. A suggestion: Read through the whole list and choose to answer those which you are able to give the best answer for.
1) What would be a reason to question the beginning point for my timeline in the Intertestamental Era?
2) How does an “increased emphasis on keeping the Law” relate to another development among the Jews in the Intertestamental Era?
3) Why was the dualism that developed during the Intertestamental Era described as “qualified?”
4) Why is monotheism a “more radical” religious position than monolatry?
5) How does the term Diaspora relate to the influence of Jewish people in the ancient Mediterranean world?
6) What is the Septuagint, and how does it relate to cross-cultural influences of the Jews upon non-Jewish culture?
7) Describe how the rule of the Hasmonean dynasty led to the loss of Jewish independence and the beginning of Roman rule.
8) In what way could the term affidavit be used to describe the Gospels?
9) Why are Matthew, Mark, and Luke called the ‘Synoptic Gospels’?
10) What point of emphasis was being made by referring to Jesus’ ministry as “authoritative servanthood?”
11) Significance of “Since you are the Son of God” (as opposed to “If …”), in the Temptation of Jesus.
12) Significance of all Jesus’ “scripture-rebuttals” to the temptations coming from the OT book of Deuteronomy.
13) Significance for Jesus’ ministry of the phrase, “Galilee of the Gentiles” (as I described it).
14) Significance of use of the term “sinners” (as in the complaint, “he eats with tax collectors and ‘sinners’ ”).
15) Why the conflict episodes in Mark are also referred to as “pronouncement stories.”
16) Why the ‘Beatitudes’ could be described as an Introduction to the “Upside-Down Kingdom.”
18) What is Jesus’ emphasis in the “Six Moral Antitheses?”
19) Significance of Jesus’ statement, “They have received their reward,” and who was he speaking about?
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