Nbst 515 Exam 1 With Answers (Summer 2020)

100 out of 100 points According to Elwell, a canon is an authoritative collection of documents. According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews are believed to be responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls? According to the presentations, the first half of Jesus’ ministry took place where? According to Elwell, apocalyptic literature was thought to convey a special revelation from God revealing hidden secrets surrounding the end of the age. According to the presentations, Judaism, in the first century AD, was a monolithic religion comprised of a single group in which all Jews believed exactly the same. According to Elwell, we should study the New Testament because According to Elwell, by selecting twelve disciples, Jesus was drawing a parallel between the work of God in the Old Testament (12 tribes of Israel) and his own work in the New Testament. According to Elwell, the Sea of Galilee is 1290 feet below sea level. According to Elwell, Jesus and most of his hearers were unfamiliar with the Old Testament. According to the presentations, the Pharisees believed that God, at Sinai, gave Moses two Torahs, one written and one oral. According to Elwell, the ancient people to whom God originally gave the Scriptures were known first as Hebrews or Israelites, and later as Jews. According to the presentations, “a sabbath day’s journey” was the distance one could travel on the sabbath day without violating the commandment to keep the sabbath. According to the presentations, reading the Gospels “horizontally” means to read all four Gospels as one consistent story of the life of Christ. According to the presentations, when did the term “Christian” first come into popular usage? According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews’ chief interest was to support the Temple in Jerusalem as the center of Jewish life in Israel? According to the presentations, which group of first-century Jews supported the priesthood and exercised controlling influence on the Sanhedrin (Jewish court)? According to Elwell, which disciple did not believe that Jesus had risen from the dead until he actually saw him? According to the presentations, the Sadducees accepted all parts of the Hebrew Bible as Scripture. According to Elwell, Jesus was born during the reign of According to the presentations, Paul quit going to synagogue and Temple following his conversion to Christianity.