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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main problem historians have with the calendars used by the ancients?
(a) They were not uniform.
(b) There were no calendars in existence.
(c) There is no problem.
(d) They are different from the one we use today.

2. What structure do many historians claim there were none of in Palestine during Jesus' life?
(a) Government buildings.
(b) Synagogues.
(c) Temples.
(d) Houses.

3. How were the stories in the Gospels originally shared?
(a) Through the oral tradition.
(b) In newspapers.
(c) In complete written narratives.
(d) Through the writing of the Gospels.

4. How was Jesus' life originally recorded?
(a) In long narratives.
(b) In a biographical style.
(c) In his diaries.
(d) In short passages.

5. Who revised the book "Antiquities of the Jews" and may have changed the text of the book?
(a) It has not been revised.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Christian scribes.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around what year does the author believe Jesus was born?

2. What does C.E. stand for?

3. The Gospels are missing characteristics of what type of literature, which makes them problematic?

4. What years was the revolt that broke out in Palestine, which may have destroyed any records about Jesus?

5. Who baptized Jesus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why wasn't Jesus convicted after the scene at the Temple?

2. What does the fact that the Gospel of Mark focuses on detailing Jesus' miracles while the Gospels of Matthew and Luke focus on Jesus' teachings say about those two aspects of Jesus' life?

3. Whose tables did Jesus overturn at the Temple?

4. Why do biblical scholars say that Jesus' conversation with the apostles concerning a promise to the disciples for a place in Heaven could not have taken place after the crucifixion?

5. What areas did the scholar Josephus study?

6. What did Jesus promise to anyone who was willing to make a sacrifice and follow him as a disciple?

7. What kind of ruler does Sanders say Antipas was in comparison to his father, Herod the Great?

8. What did Jesus tell the apostles they would one day rule over?

9. According to external sources written in the first century, what was Jesus considered to be?

10. What structures did archeologists find that dated back to 70 C.E., thus alleviating some of the controversy about where Jesus taught?

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