Edexcel A-Level Religious Studies Paper 3 New Testament Studies overview quiz quiz

Roman

Greek

Persian

Babylonian

Pharisees

Sadducees

Zealots

Essenes

It means simply an ordinary human being and nothing more, with no exalted or apocalyptic overtones at all

It is a formal Roman military rank held by senior commanders stationed in occupied Judea

It names a heavenly figure given everlasting dominion, giving the title an apocalyptic sense

It refers to a Zealot leader who led armed revolt against the occupying Roman forces

Brandon and Reimarus

Bultmann and Dibelius

Dodd and Jeremias

Vermes and Sanders

what can be established about the man versus the risen Lord proclaimed by the Church

two literally different individuals who happened to share the same name in the first century

the older covenant of the Old Testament set against the newer covenant of the New Testament

the divergence between Matthew's Gospel and John's Gospel on the events of Holy Week

Albert Schweitzer

C H Dodd

Joachim Jeremias

N T Wright

consistent or thoroughgoing eschatology

wholly realised eschatology

inaugurated eschatology

strictly futurist eschatology

a price paid to free humanity

a supreme example of love that moves us to repent

a defeat of the powers of death

Christ bearing the punishment humans deserve

As a literal bodily event that best explains the empty tomb, the appearances and the rise of the Church

As nothing more than the gradual rise of resurrection faith in the minds of the grieving disciples

As a purely symbolic myth carrying spiritual meaning but no claim to any historical occurrence at all

As a subjective inner vision granted to the disciples, leaving the tomb itself untouched and still full

The sharp contradiction between John's Gospel and the three Synoptic Gospels over the order of events

The question of the literary relationship between Matthew, Mark and Luke

The problem of fixing a reliable date for the writing of the book of Revelation

The long debate over which books belong in the New Testament canon

The Gospel of Mark itself, treated as the single common source behind all three Synoptic Gospels

The special material found only in Luke and in no other Gospel, often labelled the L source

A lost collection of sayings used by Matthew and Luke alongside Mark

The underlying source thought to lie behind the very different Gospel of John

The study of how each evangelist edited and shaped his sources, which is properly called redaction criticism

The careful dating of the surviving Greek manuscripts by their handwriting and physical features

The reconstruction of the original Greek wording from the variant readings in the manuscripts

The study of the oral units (forms) behind the text and their setting in the early Church

reinterpret the mythological language existentially to recover its meaning for modern hearers

strip out and delete every miracle story from the text so that only the ethical teaching remains

establish the resurrection as a literal, scientifically provable event open to empirical testing

smooth out and harmonise the four Gospels into one single, internally consistent narrative account