Who Wrote the Gospels?
The number of anonymous copies of Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John that have ever been found.
What is zero (none)?
Pitre argues the Gospels belong to this ancient literary genre, called a "bios" (a "life") in Greek.
What is a biography?
In the first century, the word "disciple" literally meant this. Jesus's disciples lived with him and learned from him for about three years.
What is a student?
According to Matthew and John, the risen Jesus appeared first to this woman, even though the testimony of women was considered unreliable at the time.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
How was the image on the Shroud formed (allegedly)?
What is a burst of light/radiation?
The former tax collector among the Twelve, and therefore probably the one apostle most likely to be able to read and write.
Who is Matthew?
Each of the Gospels falls within this word-count range, a clue to its genre as an ancient biography.
What is 10,000 to 20,000 words?
The main reason scholars date the Gospels after AD 70 is that Jesus predicted the destruction of this building in Jerusalem, which the Romans burned that year.
What is the Temple?
This apostle refused to believe until he saw the wounds, then confessed, "My Lord and my God!"
Who is Thomas?
Who is responsible for the Divine Mercy image?
Who is St. Faustina?
Mark was the companion and "interpreter" of this apostle, who calls him "my son" in his first letter, written from "Babylon" (Rome).
Who is Peter?
The three components that typically made up an ancient biography.
What are birth/ancestry, public events and ministry, and death?
Most scholars agree that Jesus died around this time, so the "time gap" before the Gospels is measured from here.
What is about AD 30-33?
All four Gospels agree that on Easter Sunday the women found this empty.
What is the tomb?
What is the blood type on the Shroud?
What is AB+?
Unlike the Gospels, this New Testament letter really is anonymous: its manuscripts credit Paul, Timothy, or nobody at all.
What is the Letter to the Hebrews?
Like many ancient biographies, these two Gospels open with a genealogy of their subject.
What are Matthew and Luke?
The book of Acts ends abruptly with this apostle under house arrest in Rome, around AD 62, with no mention of his death.
Who is Paul?
To prove he was not a ghost, the risen Jesus ate a piece of this in front of his disciples.
What is (broiled) fish?
What is the strongest piece of evidence that the Shroud goes back to the 1st century?
What is Middle Eastern pollen?
Paul dictated his Letter to the Romans to this scribe, who greets the readers in Romans 16:22. Pitre uses this to show that even an "illiterate" apostle could have written a Gospel by using a secretary.
Who is Tertius?
This ancient Greek historian admitted that when he could not recall speeches word for word, he stuck to "the general sense of what they really said."
Who is Thucydides?
The Gospel that St. Augustine argued was written first.
What is Matthew?
St. Paul says the risen Jesus appeared to more than this many "brothers" at one time.
What is 500?
What Roman emperor was inscribed on the coins placed over Jesus' eyes?
Who is Tiberius Caesar?