Chapter 03
The Diverse World of First-Century Judaism
Multiple Choice Questions
1. (p. 45) The "greatest" commandment, given by Yahweh in the Old Testament and Jesus in the New Testament, is to A. hate sin. B. love yourself. C. love others. D. worship Yahweh exc...
1. (p. 3) What did Christian leaders intend to do when they assembled at Nicaea in Asia Minor
about 300 years after Jesus was crucified?
A. Plan a holy war against Islam.
B. Write an amendment to the New Testament to canonize non-Christian scriptures.
C. Decree that Jesus was more than a teacher and prophet, more than the Son of God but God
himself.
D. Reevaluate the divinity of Jesus in light of that fact that he did not return as promised.
2. (p. 3) Which religion believes that the Quran transmits the one true faith?
A. Buddhism
B. Judaism
C. Hinduism
D. Islam
3. (p. 4) Why do the Jews believe that they have exclusive property rights to Palestine?
A. It was theirs to begin with, before Rome conquered it.
B. According to Roman law, anyone who developed the land for more than three generations
had legal rights to its title.
C. According to Genesis, God gave them this territory, calling it the Promised Land.
D. As the "chosen people" they believed that anything they wanted they could have, and God
would support them.
4. (p. 8) "Messiah" means
A. Holy One.
B. Anointed One.
C. King.
D. Wise One.
5. (p. 9-10) Writing 600 years before the time of Jesus, Jeremiah prophesied that the Old
Covenant would be replaced by
A. democracy.
B. self-rule.
C. the New Covenant, or "Testament."
D. the Mosaic Covenant.
6. (p. 11) Christians believed that all the covenants and promises made to Israel throughout
history were fulfilled by
A. Moses.
B. the work of the seventy.
C. the apostles.
D. Jesus.
7. (p. 11) What work was produced, according to legend, by seventy-two Hebrew scholars,
divided into twelve groups of six, laboring for seventy-two days, and ultimately creating
identical translations in isolation?
A. the Septuagint
B. the Pentateuch
C. Revelation
D. the Torah
8. (p. 11) The Septuagint became the standard biblical text for
A. East Indians.
B. Russian Orthodox Christians.
C. Muslims.
D. Jews throughout the Greco-Roman world.
9. (p. 13) An "evangelist" spreads
A. knowledge of good and evil.
B. rumors.
C. predictions of pestilence and plagues.
D. the "good news."
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