According to Ehrman, Jesus is best understood as a...
Jewish Apocalyptic
Ehrman has examined the early Christian Gospels as...
Ancient biographies
What methods has Ehrman used to examine the various unique portrayals of Jesus?
F. All of the Above
The only way the we can know what a person from the past said and did by _____ from the period that provides us with this information
examining sources
Literary sources are...
B. not always reliable
Eyewitness accounts can be contradictory and contemporary observers not infrequently get the facts wrong
A. True
The ideal situation would be that the sources are a) numerous b) near to the event in time c) produced independently d) do not contradict one another e) internally consistent f) not _____ towards the subject matter so that the accounts are not _____ to se
Bias, Bias
The historian's question is: are the Gospels _____ for _____ what Jesus actually said and did?
Reliable, reconstructing
We have sources outside the NT that can assist a great deal in knowing what Jesus said and did
B. False
The name "Jesus" is first mentioned by a Roman pagan about the year _____ C.E. by the Roman Historian _____
115, Tacitus
Jesus is mentioned by the Jewish historian _____ in his twenty-volume work titled _____
Josephus, antiquities of the Jews
Why did Jews not copy the writings of Josephus?
Because they considered him a traitor
The statement "He is the Messiah" is widely held to be an _____
interpolation
Non-canonical Gospels are filled with legendary materials and were written _____
decades after they were the events described
The other writings of the NT are more interested in the death and resurrection of Jesus than in His life
A. True
Scholars hold that the traditions about Jesus were _____ when they were told and retold, and _____ further when written down (same word is used for both blanks)
Modified
Name the four rules of thumb, the basic methodological principles that can be used to determine what probably happened during the life of Jesus, using our surviving sources
1. the earlier the better
2. the more the better
3. the more it works against bias the better
4. the more contextually credible the better
The criterion of _____ refers to a tradition dissimilar to what Christians wanted to saying being more probably authentic (wtf)
Dissimilarity
When more than one independent source says the same thing we have a case of _____
multiple attestation
Jewish _____ is concerned with the question of why the people of God were suffering
apocalypticism
Jewish apocalypticists called into question the view that people suffered because they had done something wrong and God was punishing them
A. True
Jewish apocalypticists maintained that God's people were suffering because of...
Evil something something
But God would soon vindicate his name and people by bringing an end to suffering and the _____ that were causing it
evil forces
God would then bring his new _____ on earth which good, peace, and justice would prevail forever
kingdom
Jewish apocalypticists to four major tenets. Name them:
1. dualism
2. pessimism
3. vindication
4. eminence
Who said the following...
John the Baptist
Imprisoned and executed by authorities
A
What did Jesus do to attack the leadership of Jerusalem
Cleansing the temple
John Dominic Crossan argues for a non-apocalyptical Jesus, by inter alia, arguing that the _____ is older than the Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Peter
Some American scholars hold that Jesus was a _____ philosopher
cynic
Ehrman interprets the temple incident as an
Inactive parable
What famous prophet attacked the temple and was told "You must die"?
Jeremiah
How did Jesus' association with the woman fit into an apocalyptic setting?
Not strict gender roles/overthrow/overturn
By their very nature, historians can only establish what _____ happened in the past
Probably
Jesus' exorcisms are among the best attested deeds of the gospel traditions
A. True
The historian cannot deal with miracles only with _____ of miracles
reports/accounts/recount
Josephus tells of another prophet who lived 30 years after the death of Jesus. His name was...
Jesus son of Ananias
Name two apocalyptic texts written before the time of Jesus that speak of a cosmic deliverer, a son of man, a human like figure flying
1st enoc and jubilee