Chapter 3 Self Quiz

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. The Septuagint is _____.

the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible correct incorrect

a Roman Emperor correct incorrect

a region of the Greco-Roman world correct incorrect

a god correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not unique to Judaism?

covenant correct incorrect

Torah correct incorrect

animal sacrifice correct incorrect

synagogue correct incorrect

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. Ancient Jews believed that the special place of God's presence was the _____.

synagogue correct incorrect

Torah correct incorrect

Holy of Holies correct incorrect

Dead Sea correct incorrect

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. Which of the following activities did not take place in synagogues?

gathering of Jews correct incorrect

reading of scripture correct incorrect

offering of sacrifices correct incorrect

praying correct incorrect

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. Which group believed in the authority of the oral law?

Pharisees correct incorrect

Fourth Philosophy correct incorrect

Essenes correct incorrect

Sadducees correct incorrect

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. Which group left Jerusalem because they believed the Jewish leadership had gone astray?

Pharisees correct incorrect

Fourth Philosophy correct incorrect

Essenes correct incorrect

Josephus correct incorrect

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. Which group was aristocratic and ran the Temple?

Pharisees correct incorrect

Fourth Philosophy correct incorrect

Sadducees correct incorrect

Essenes correct incorrect

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. Who among the following was not a Jewish holy man?

Honi the circle-drawer correct incorrect

Jesus correct incorrect

Hanina ben-Dosa correct incorrect

Apollonius of Tyana correct incorrect

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. Jews in Palestine disliked the Syrian ruler Antiochus Epiphanes because _____.

he was not of the right priestly line correct incorrect

he required men to remove the marks of circumcision correct incorrect

he made infant circumcision illegal for Jews correct incorrect

he destroyed the temple correct incorrect

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. The Jewish response to Antiochus Epiphanes' actions was _____.

a silent protest correct incorrect

the Maccabean revolt correct incorrect

the diaspora correct incorrect

conversion to Christianity correct incorrect

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. The Jewish holiday Hanukkah celebrates _____.

the Jews' return to Palestine correct incorrect

the rededication of the Temple correct incorrect

the destruction of the second Temple correct incorrect

the right to circumcise baby boys correct incorrect

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. Who discussed the Jewish groups that emerged in the first century BCE?

Paul correct incorrect

Philo correct incorrect

Josephus correct incorrect

Tacitus correct incorrect

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. Most Jews in Palestine were _____.

Pharisees correct incorrect

Sadducees correct incorrect

Essenes correct incorrect

unaffiliated correct incorrect

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. Most of the Jews in the diaspora stopped speaking the ancient tongue of Judea, which was _____.

Greek correct incorrect

Arabic correct incorrect

Aramaic correct incorrect

Hebrew correct incorrect

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. The group of texts used by the Essenes is called _____.

the Nag Hammadi Library correct incorrect

the Dead Sea Scrolls correct incorrect

the oral law correct incorrect

the Torah correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not a major tenet of apocalypticism?

pessimism correct incorrect

militarism correct incorrect

vindication correct incorrect

imminence correct incorrect