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Ancient Israel's greatest commandment, and the one cited by Jesus as the "greatest" commandment, was known as the ________________. |
| | A) | Torah. |
| | B) | Shema. |
| | C) | Messiah. |
| | D) | Divine Name. |
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According to Exodus 3:13-16, Israel's Deity is called _________________. |
| | A) | Shema. |
| | B) | Yahweh. |
| | C) | Jesus. |
| | D) | Torah. |
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The Torah or Mosaic Law of ancient Israel is preserved in which books of the Hebrew Bible? |
| | A) | The seventh book of the Hebrew Bible |
| | B) | The first five books of the Hebrew Bible |
| | C) | The books of the twelve Minor Prophets |
| | D) | The books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John |
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Male circumcision is the physical mark identifying Jews as members of God's covenant community. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Various New Testament authors express differing attitudes over the issue of whether Christians were bound to observe the Jewish Law. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In Jesus' time, many Jews lived in the ________________, a term that refers to the scattering of Jews to foreign regions outside Palestine. |
| | A) | Torah |
| | B) | Sabbath |
| | C) | Mithras |
| | D) | Diaspora |
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Many devout Jews in Jesus' day made annual pilgrimages to the Jewish temple located in ________________. |
| | A) | Jerusalem |
| | B) | Nazareth |
| | C) | Bethlehem |
| | D) | Rome |
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On this high holy day, the Jewish High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies in the Jewish temple to offer a sacrifice on the behalf of all the Jewish people. |
| | A) | Hanukkah |
| | B) | Passover |
| | C) | The Day of Atonement |
| | D) | Rosh Hashanah |
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This period in Western history began with the conquests of Alexander the Great in 336 B.C.E. and stretched into the early centuries of the Christian era. It is identified by the mixing of classical Greek culture with a wide variety of Near Eastern cultural influences. |
| | A) | The Roman period |
| | B) | The Persian period |
| | C) | The Maccabean period |
| | D) | The Hellenistic period |
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After the death of Alexander the Great, his successors did all they could to reverse his policy of spreading Greek forms of culture throughout southwestern Asia. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The most famous of the Greek philosophers was _________________. |
| | A) | Socrates |
| | B) | Josephus |
| | C) | Alexander the Great |
| | D) | Asclepius |
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This Greek philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, created a comprehensive philosophical world view that emphasized dualism or the coexistence of two realms of reality: physical reality and spiritual reality. |
| | A) | Paul |
| | B) | Plato |
| | C) | Mithras |
| | D) | Dionysus |
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This school of Greek philosophy, founded by Zeno, emphasized listening to the divine element within oneself and attaining a state of disciplined harmony with nature and with the universe. |
| | A) | Epicureanism |
| | B) | Stoicism |
| | C) | Polytheism |
| | D) | Polytheism |
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This Greek god of the healing arts was the mortal son of Apollo and a mortal princess. A cult of healing dedicated to this god flourished in Europe and Asia in the time of Jesus Christ. |
| | A) | Dionysus |
| | B) | Zeus |
| | C) | Demeter |
| | D) | Asclepius |
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There are intriguing parallels between the life of this mythological Greek god and the life of the historical Jesus as reported by the New Testament and early Christians. Parallels between accounts of their lives include their being born of divine parentage, their violent death, and their living on in an afterlife enthroned in heaven. |
| | A) | Dionysus |
| | B) | Plato |
| | C) | Moses |
| | D) | Epicurus |
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The "mystery" religions were so called because their adherents took oaths never to reveal the secrets they learned when they were initiated into membership in the religion. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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This mystery cult emphasized that the soul is divine and is imprisoned within the body. Once freed from its fleshly prison, the soul could return to its ultimate home in the celestial realms. |
| | A) | Orphism |
| | B) | Judasim |
| | C) | Epicureanism |
| | D) | Cult of Isis |
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This all-male mystery religion was Christianity's leading competitor in the Roman culture of the first three centuries C.E. It honored a Persian deity born on December 25, declared its worshipers to be soldiers of God, and practiced baptism. |
| | A) | Orphism |
| | B) | Cult of Isis |
| | C) | Cult of Asclepius |
| | D) | Mithras |
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Because of the patriarchal (male-dominant) influences of Greco-Roman society, the gods of the mystery religions were exclusively male. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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This mystery religion, which involved worship of the goddess of "a thousand names," emphasized mystical rituals that promised worshipers union with the divine after death. |
| | A) | Orphism |
| | B) | Cult of Isis |
| | C) | Cult of Asclepius |
| | D) | Mithras |
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