NBST 515 Exam 2 2023/2024 with 100% correct answers

Josephus - Jewish Antiquities - correct answer The first-century non-canonical author who made two references to Jesus. Also be sure to know the name of the work that contains these references. Babylonian Talmud - "He then went and raised Jesus incantation" - correct answer Jewish source that includes a reference to Jesus' resurrection. Did not - just attributed them to sorcery - correct answer Whether or not opponents of Christianity during the second century typically denied that Jesus performed miracles. Tacitus - Annals - correct answer Roman historian who noted that Jesus was executed during the reign of Tiberius by Pontius Pilate. Suetonius - correct answer Roman historian who erroneously believed that Jesus was still alive and created unrest at the time the Jews were expelled from Rome in 49 A.D. Pliny the Younger - correct answer Roman ruler who noted that Christians gathered before dawn on a particular day to chant hymns "to Christ as to a god" and to partake of a meal together. Thallus - correct answer Roman writer who made references to the darkness that occurred at the time of Jesus' death. Lucian of Samosata - correct answer Roman satirist who referred to Jesus' death, His Palestinian origin, and His founding of a new faith. Miracles did not occur and Biblical accounts needed to be stripped of miracles in order to be more "reasonable". - correct answer How advocates of the first quest for the historical Jesus viewed miracles and the veracity of the Biblical accounts about Jesus. Aim of source criticism - correct answer To identify the historic Jesus, though it also serves for the purpose of exegesis - quest to determine the literary relationship amongst texts (most often the Gospels). R. Bultmann - correct answer Scholar who emphasized the importance of demythologizing the early church's stories about Jesus in order to isolate the kernel of truth they contained for the Christian faith. Stated that a Jesus divorced from history could be applied to any agenda - Jesus needed to be connected to early Christianity, thus a higher emphasis was placed on historical background. - correct answer How advocat