RELG 103 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
The prologue of John is thought to be originally a type of what - Answers -poem/hymn
What is the approximate date of composition of the gospel of john - Answers -90 ad
Logos is greek for what? - Answers -Word
Did Jews, before christ already have a concept of God's logo mediating between
heaven and earth - Answers -yes
How would John 1.1-5, 10-11 make first century jewish christians think of genesis 1 -
Answers -creation and in the beginning
How does John 1.14 represent a shift to a christian perspective - Answers -incarnation
of logos
Who personifies God's word for christians - Answers -jesus
What is the incarnation - Answers -word becoming flesh
Who was luke - Answers -doctor, writer of luke and acts
what are the canonical gospels - Answers -Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
What are the synoptic gospels? - Answers -Matthew, Mark, Luke
Why are the synoptic Gospels called synoptic? - Answers -seen together
what are the approximate dates of Matthew - Answers -80-90
what are the approximate dates of Mark - Answers -65
what are the approximate dates of Luke - Answers -85
What is the synoptic problem? - Answers -all stories have different writers
what are the 4 sources scholars theorize comprise the source material for the synoptic
gospels - Answers -q,l,mk,mt
What does Evangelist mean? - Answers -good message
, what genre of writing do many scholars consider the gospels to be - Answers -ancient
biography
what distinguishes the 4 gospels from other ancient biographies - Answers -youre
supposed to do something after reading
What cataclysmic event happened in ad 70? - Answers -Romans destroy temple
What cataclysmic event happened in bc 586 - Answers -babylonian exile
what does messiah mean - Answers -Anointed one
what does christ mean - Answers -chosen/annointed one
How does Isaiah 11.4 relate to one jewish conception of a messiah - Answers -he will
defeat the enemies of israel
who were annointed in the old testament - Answers -clergy, kings, prophets
after the Babylonian exile what type of messiah generally did Jews expect - Answers -
davidic king
What would the messiah do for the jews in the davidic view - Answers -defeat enemies
and rebuild israel
when the messiah did not come after the exile when did some jews expect one to come
- Answers -apocalypse
how do Genesis 49.10 and numbers 24.17 relate to a jewish messiah - Answers -about
messiah and jesus
for jews what is the major function of the messiah - Answers -take enemies with his
words
what 2 things do christians believe about the messiah believe that no one else does -
Answers -die for sins, associated with god
what kind of messiah does luke portray Jesus as - Answers -davidic king
In Luke 1 what characters foil each other - Answers -Zachariah and Mary
In Luke 2 what characters foil each other - Answers -Jesus and Caesar
Consider the narrative structure in Luke's gospel and acts where does the word of god
begin and end - Answers -Bethlehem and eventually to the ends of the earth
The prologue of John is thought to be originally a type of what - Answers -poem/hymn
What is the approximate date of composition of the gospel of john - Answers -90 ad
Logos is greek for what? - Answers -Word
Did Jews, before christ already have a concept of God's logo mediating between
heaven and earth - Answers -yes
How would John 1.1-5, 10-11 make first century jewish christians think of genesis 1 -
Answers -creation and in the beginning
How does John 1.14 represent a shift to a christian perspective - Answers -incarnation
of logos
Who personifies God's word for christians - Answers -jesus
What is the incarnation - Answers -word becoming flesh
Who was luke - Answers -doctor, writer of luke and acts
what are the canonical gospels - Answers -Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
What are the synoptic gospels? - Answers -Matthew, Mark, Luke
Why are the synoptic Gospels called synoptic? - Answers -seen together
what are the approximate dates of Matthew - Answers -80-90
what are the approximate dates of Mark - Answers -65
what are the approximate dates of Luke - Answers -85
What is the synoptic problem? - Answers -all stories have different writers
what are the 4 sources scholars theorize comprise the source material for the synoptic
gospels - Answers -q,l,mk,mt
What does Evangelist mean? - Answers -good message
, what genre of writing do many scholars consider the gospels to be - Answers -ancient
biography
what distinguishes the 4 gospels from other ancient biographies - Answers -youre
supposed to do something after reading
What cataclysmic event happened in ad 70? - Answers -Romans destroy temple
What cataclysmic event happened in bc 586 - Answers -babylonian exile
what does messiah mean - Answers -Anointed one
what does christ mean - Answers -chosen/annointed one
How does Isaiah 11.4 relate to one jewish conception of a messiah - Answers -he will
defeat the enemies of israel
who were annointed in the old testament - Answers -clergy, kings, prophets
after the Babylonian exile what type of messiah generally did Jews expect - Answers -
davidic king
What would the messiah do for the jews in the davidic view - Answers -defeat enemies
and rebuild israel
when the messiah did not come after the exile when did some jews expect one to come
- Answers -apocalypse
how do Genesis 49.10 and numbers 24.17 relate to a jewish messiah - Answers -about
messiah and jesus
for jews what is the major function of the messiah - Answers -take enemies with his
words
what 2 things do christians believe about the messiah believe that no one else does -
Answers -die for sins, associated with god
what kind of messiah does luke portray Jesus as - Answers -davidic king
In Luke 1 what characters foil each other - Answers -Zachariah and Mary
In Luke 2 what characters foil each other - Answers -Jesus and Caesar
Consider the narrative structure in Luke's gospel and acts where does the word of god
begin and end - Answers -Bethlehem and eventually to the ends of the earth
