Jewish History Quiz
1. The span of Jewish history from 515 BCE to 70 CE is referred to a the Second Temple period.
2. Which Seleucid (Greek) ruler initiated a reign of terror designed to exterminate the Jewish religion?
Antiochus Epiphanes
3. Which person brought Palestine under Greek control, inaugurating the Hellenistic period?
Alexander the Great
4. Which group led a successful Jewish rebellion to gain freedom from foreign rule?
Maccabees
5. Which ruling family ruled an independent Jewish state until civil wars made them ripe for conquest by the Romans?
Hasmoneans
6. Which of the following is not characteristic of the Pharisees? practiced celibacy
7. Which of the following is not characteristic of the Sadducees? radically anti-Roman
8. Which of the following …show more content…
Which of the following would not be a subject of study in narrative criticism? literary sources
30. Which of the following terms is not associated with form criticism?
: polyvalence
31. Redaction criticism tries to determine the particular intentions of New Testament authors by analyzing how they organized and edited their sources
32. Which of the following is not associated with rhetorical criticism? reader’s social location
33. What scholarly discipline is interested in the capacity of the New Testament texts to mean different things to different people (“polyvalence”) and how New Testament texts have been read throughout history? reader-response criticism
34. Which of the following is not an approach included in ideological criticism? sociological criticism
35. What term is associated with postmodern philosophy and seeks to demonstrate the subjective nature of all interpretation and so holds all interpretations equally valid? deconstruction 36. What term refers to the scholarly study of the Bible with an emphasis on the explication of texts using various academic approaches? exegesis 37. What term refers to the philosophical reflection on the process of interpretation?
2. Which Seleucid (Greek) ruler initiated a reign of terror designed to exterminate the Jewish religion?
Antiochus Epiphanes
3. Which person brought Palestine under Greek control, inaugurating the Hellenistic period?
Alexander the Great
4. Which group led a successful Jewish rebellion to gain freedom from foreign rule?
Maccabees
5. Which ruling family ruled an independent Jewish state until civil wars made them ripe for conquest by the Romans?
Hasmoneans
6. Which of the following is not characteristic of the Pharisees? practiced celibacy
7. Which of the following is not characteristic of the Sadducees? radically anti-Roman
8. Which of the following …show more content…
Which of the following would not be a subject of study in narrative criticism? literary sources
30. Which of the following terms is not associated with form criticism?
: polyvalence
31. Redaction criticism tries to determine the particular intentions of New Testament authors by analyzing how they organized and edited their sources
32. Which of the following is not associated with rhetorical criticism? reader’s social location
33. What scholarly discipline is interested in the capacity of the New Testament texts to mean different things to different people (“polyvalence”) and how New Testament texts have been read throughout history? reader-response criticism
34. Which of the following is not an approach included in ideological criticism? sociological criticism
35. What term is associated with postmodern philosophy and seeks to demonstrate the subjective nature of all interpretation and so holds all interpretations equally valid? deconstruction 36. What term refers to the scholarly study of the Bible with an emphasis on the explication of texts using various academic approaches? exegesis 37. What term refers to the philosophical reflection on the process of interpretation?