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Jewish High Priests were usually members of what religious sect within Judaism? |
| | A) | Essenes |
| | B) | Pharisees |
| | C) | Zealots |
| | D) | Sadducees |
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Which of the following was typical of the beliefs of the Sadducees? |
| | A) | vigorously opposed to Roman rule in Palestine |
| | B) | practiced a literal reading of the Jewish Torah |
| | C) | scrupulously observed the "oral law" and the written Law |
| | D) | pioneered the theological concepts of final judgment and resurrection |
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The Sadducees were the only one of the important Jewish sects in Jesus' day to survive the first century C.E. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Many modern scholars believe that the hostility shown toward the Pharisees in the New Testament Gospels reflects deep tension that existed between Christians and Jewish religious leaders in the decades when the Gospels were written. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Pharisees observed not only the written Torah but also a set of oral laws called the "tradition of the elders." |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Although the tradition of the elders originally circulated in oral form only, it was eventually written down in a set of documents collectively known as the ________________. |
| | A) | Mishnah. |
| | B) | Masada. |
| | C) | Menora. |
| | D) | Marcion. |
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Two of the most influential Jewish rabbis in the Hellenistic period were ______________________. |
| | A) | Hillel and Shammai. |
| | B) | Peter and Paul. |
| | C) | Moses and Elijah. |
| | D) | Herod the Great and Herod Antipas. |
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Despite their frequent disagreements over the application of the Jewish Torah, Jesus and the Pharisees agreed on numerous matters of belief. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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After the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 C.E., the center of rabbinic Judaism moved to the coastal town of ______________, where an academy of rabbis continued to develop Jewish beliefs about the contents of the Bible and Judaism's relationship with Christianity. |
| | A) | Jamnia |
| | B) | Caesarea |
| | C) | Masada |
| | D) | Petra |
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The _________________ were a distinctive group of Jewish people who lived in the region between Judea and Galilee. Most other Jews viewed them as an alien group who practiced a false version of Judaism. |
| | A) | Herodians |
| | B) | Sadducees |
| | C) | Gamaliels |
| | D) | Samaritans |
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A monastic sect of Jews known as the ________________ settled in a community in Qumran near the Dead Sea. |
| | A) | Samaritans |
| | B) | Sadducees |
| | C) | Seleucids |
| | D) | Essenes |
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The inhabitants of the monastery at Qumran may have been responsible for producing the _________________, copies of which were discovered in caves near the settlement. |
| | A) | Dead Sea Scrolls |
| | B) | Mishnah |
| | C) | Talmud |
| | D) | New Testament Gospels |
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The Dead Sea Scrolls contain the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Which New Testament character best echoes some of the characteristic views of the Essenes, such as the achievement of spiritual purity by withdrawal from society, the need for repentance to escape God's coming judgment, and baptism as a sign of spiritual cleansing? |
| | A) | Jesus of Nazareth |
| | B) | The apostle Paul |
| | C) | John the Baptist |
| | D) | Simon Peter |
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During the Jewish Revolt in 70 C.E., the Romans who besieged Jerusalem would have destroyed the Temple when they captured the city, but the Zealots occupying the grounds surrendered so that the Temple could be saved. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Many Jews rejected early Christian claims that Jesus was God's Messiah because Jesus failed to deliver the Jews from their Gentile oppressors. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The English term "Messiah" derives from the Hebrew term mashiah, which means _________________. |
| | A) | Lord. |
| | B) | Resurrected one. |
| | C) | Teacher. |
| | D) | Anointed one. |
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The term "messiah" derived from the Hebrew practice of anointing persons with oil as a sign that God had set them apart for some special task. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Which of the following was a messianic pretender who claimed to be "son of the star" and who led the Jews into a disastrous rebellion against Rome? |
| | A) | Simon bar Giora |
| | B) | Simon bar Kochba |
| | C) | Herod the Great |
| | D) | John the Baptist |
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Early Christians countered Jewish objections that Jesus of Nazareth failed to reestablish David's kingdom by claiming that ____________________. |
| | A) | Jesus never really died on the cross; he went straight to heaven |
| | B) | the Hebrew Bible never really claimed that the Messiah would re-establish David's kingdom |
| | C) | Jesus the Messiah will return to earth in the near future to reestablish David's kingdom |
| | D) | Jesus actually did reestablish David's kingdom during his earthly ministry |
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