The Gospels
What Gospel is widely agreed to be the oldest/first written?
Gospel of Mark
The dominant language of the New Testament world in the 1st century CE
Greek
What religion was Paul before he became a Christian?
Jewish
• First-century CE teacher, miracle worker, and holy man
•Called the “Son of God by his followers
•Followers believed him to be the *true* Messiah and that Jesus was a fraud
Apollonius of Tyana
Tihs is a collection of twenty-seven books, written by 15+ authors, addressing different Christian individuals/communities between 50 and 120 CE
The New Testament
These three Gospels are commonly called the Synoptic Gospels
Mark, Matthew, and Luke
This historical figure spread education and economic unity around what would become Greece and Rome, often against the will of the people living there. He is essential to the existence of the Greco-Roman empire as we know it.
Alexander the Great
Paul's most famous and longest book, despite his never actually going to the place where he writes it.
Romans
Luke and Acts are addressed to this one person, suggesting a shared authorship
Theophilus
One of the two types of translation we learned about. This is how the class Bible was translated: word-for-word translation; translate to be more literal to original texts
Formal Equivalence
Mark and John
California is 155,000 square miles in size. This prominant region in the ancient world was much bigger, clocking in at over 200,000 square miles
Asia Minor
One of these is considered a disputed Pauline epistle. Which one is it? 1 Thessalonians, Galatians, 2 Thessalonians, or Philippians
2 Thessalonians
John the Baptist's Mother
Elizabeth
Meaning “rule” or “measuring stick”; origins in ancient Alexandria in the Hellenistic period (3rd to 2nd centuries BCE)
Canon
This Gospel presents Jesus as the Jewish Messiah
Matthew
This was a widespread form of public execution in ancient Rome, usually done as a show of power by the state.
Crucifixion
Paul never mentions this afterlife destination in any of his writings.
Hell
A good friend of Paul who was jailed with him.
Silas
A collection of texts found in an Egyptian town in 1945. Incredibly important for the modern study of the New Testament.
Nag Hammadi Library
This Gospel compares Jesus to the eternal logos
John
The rate of this exploded from 1% to 10% during the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, causing a massive shift in communication and education.
Literacy
Paul weirdly talks about this a lot, so much so that some students complain and wish we didn't have to discuss it.
Circumcision
A prophetess who blessed Jesus in one of the Gospels
Anna (Luke 2:36-38)
Hypothetical collection of Christian writings, connected to Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The title derives from the German Quelle, meaning “source.”
The Q Source