NT2 Midterm Exam

Which of the following cities/regions would have been included in the territory of Galatia (select as many as apply)?

What holdover practices/attitudes from broader Cor. culture --> partisanship Paul addresses in 1 Cor. 1-4 (select many)

Which represent areas of supposed differences in theology Colossians from the undisputed Pauline letters (select many)

In Romans 9-11 Paul agonizes over the deeply upsetting fact that the majority of Jews have rejected _________. 

Specific purposes that relate directly to the Philippians' partnership w/ Paul&goals he has for writing letter (many):

The uncircumcised and unclean will enter Jerusalem no more (Verse).

How did Christianity first make its way to the city of Rome (select as many as apply)?

What is Paul's central concern in 2 Corinthians 8-9?

In which letter does Paul appear to believe that he will soon die?

Paul's letter to Titus bears striking similarities to _________.

A reader of both letters cannot fail to notice that much of the material in _________ has parallel material in Ephesians

For all believers gaining Christ&prize of resurrected life means "becoming conformed to the likeness of Christ's death"

Paul's narration of his travels breaks off abruptly at 2 Corinthians 2:13 then resumes in 2 Corinthians:

What kind of things did a pedagogue do (select as many as apply)?

The most prominent theme of the Pastoral Epistles  concerns "God's household _________."

What thinking created a misunderstanding of Christian eschatology, which Paul addressed in 2 Thessalonians?

In Romans 14:1-15:13, Paul seeks to nurture harmony and mutual respect among the ______ and the ______ (select as many).

How did Paul and his team overcome distance in their friendship with the converts in Thessalonica?

Titus and the "brothers" deliver 2 Corinthians

Who are the people whose approval will come to matter most to the individual convert? 

Response to allegations of fraud and to rival Jewish-Christian teachers

Which characterize the supposed differences between theology of Ephesians & undisputed Pauline letters (select many)?

What is part of the normal course of making progress toward the honor God has in store for the faithful?

Until recently, Romans has been read primarily as an essay in __________.

Which of the following might characterize the fierce rivalries of sophists & their declaimers (select as many as apply)?

To be a child of ________ was to be part of God’s people.

Paul and the Philippians are bound together by their common experience of:

Gentiles who wish to join God’s people must be circumcised. (Verse)

The landmark for which Ephesus enjoyed its principle fame was the grand temple of:

Which of the following represent complications in reconstructing Paul's career (select as many as apply)?

The gospel proclaims advancement as (select as many as apply):

The life of obedience that Paul describes in the closing chapters of Romans constitutes a _______ to God's benefactions.

Officially sanctioned persecution of the church was common in the first century.

What figure served as a prototype for Paul's "man of lawlessness" (select as many as apply)?

Proper reverence toward gods--worship that acknowledged their gifts--was regarded as essential to continued(select many)

The temple of Artemis also served as a kind of ________. 

In Galatians, the rival teachers were socially motivated by their:

God's ____ is revealed in God's commitment to act in accordance with God's own purpose to bring blessing to all nations.

Which of the following characterize 2 Corinthians 10-12 (select as many as apply)?

Theology is always __________ in the New Testament and not merely speculative.

Paul writes and sends 2 Corinthians 1-13

According to the Book of Acts, how long did Paul stay in Corinth?

Paul challenges the Corinthians to ground their boasting in:

In Colossians, the focal point of the author's response is the supremacy of _______.

Contrary to conventional wisdom and notions of power and status, what is the path to lasting honor and advantage?

It is historically plausible that the Roman historian Seutonius misinterpreted ___, Greek word for Messiah, as Chrestus.

Israel failed to fulfill its law&thus became a transgressor, precisely in not recognizing the law's goal&endpoint in __.

The most common understanding of Onesimus' relationship to Philemon is that of a runaway ________. 

According to DeSilva, the ingathering of the Gentiles was, for Paul, ultimately grounded in the ______.

A slight majority of scholars who favor Pauline authorship also favor a ____ imprisonment as the setting for Colossians.

Which of the following were found in the city of Ephesus (select as many as apply)?

What, for Paul, qualifies him as an emissary of God?

The Philippian Christians helped finance Paul's evangelism of nearby _________ sending gifts twice to him there.

Ephesians appears to have been known to and used by Christian authors as early as:

There are close correspondences between the Epistle to Philemon and what other NT letter?

Which of Paul's fellow workers stands out as perhaps the most trusted and long-standing?

Which of the following characterize Corinth after it was rebuilt by Julius Caesar in 44 BCE (Select as many as apply)?

Why shouldn't the Christians be swayed by the non-believers' evaluation of them?

Which of the following are characteristics of the philosophy that Paul opposed in Colossians (select as many apply)?

Most agree that the purpose of Ephesians is to remind Christians of some central&distinctive features of their identity

In Corinth, what kind of people would be looking for opportunities for self-promotion (select as many as apply)?

DeSilva places the writing of Galatians just before the events recorded in:

Paul sends a "tearful letter."

Fundraising letters

The events in Galatians most logically _________ any such decision  that was reached in the meeting narrated in Acts 15.

Paul's travel narration

Paul regards _________ as the prototype for both Jew and Gentile in the church.

Paul gave instruction from his lips and instruction from his ___, which the idlers in Thessalonica aught to have heeded

A collegia was defined by which of the following (select as many as apply):

The impersonal tone of Ephesians could be explained on the theory that Ephesians represent a ______ letter of some kind.

Which of the situations below were troubling the believers in Thessalonica, which Paul addresses in 1 Thessalonians

God's redemptive purpose extends to (choose as many as apply):

WhyDoesDesilvaSuggestPartitionTheoriesAsValuableToReadersOf2Cor.ToDrawAttentionToRoughTransitionsDifferencesOfToneEtc.?

________ was considered the bedrock of government and social order.

The message of the rival teachers a “different gospel,” not “another gospel,” but a _________ of the true gospel.

Paul grounds his vision of equal sharing of resources in the story of God's miraculous provision of:

At the time Paul wrote Romans, he was looking ahead to new fields for sowing the gospel, namely _______.

According to 2 Corinthians, how do the rival Christian sophists try to bolster their credibility (select many)?

Which of following people from Israel history would've served as model for Paul's zeal for God & covenant (select many)

Confrontation with what reality must have sent Paul into the deepest throes of cognitive dissonance?

What theme(s) gives coherence to the whole of Romans, especially 1-11 (select as many as apply)?

Which are areas of dispute regarding the question of Paul's authorship of the letters to Timothy&Titus (select many)?

Any uncircumcised male will be cut off from his people. (Verse)

In deSilva's opinion, evidence tends to favor Paul's ____ imprisonment, making Philippians one of Paul's latest letters.

While Paul was in Philippi, who opened up her house to Paul & his team & provided hospitality for the fledgling church?

Pastoral Epistles author promotes behaviors&attitudes that reinforce image of Christians as people who support&respect:

Paul agrees with the prophet Jeremiah, who argued that _________ of the heart was of greatest value to God.

Which of the following captures the worldly thinking that Paul's opponents embodied?

Which of the following are characteristic of a diatribe (select as many as apply)?

The Corinthian "church" was more a:

Paul's education could have incorporated a great deal of Greek (select as many as apply):

Titus returns to Paul with an encouraging report.

Paul visits Corinth a third time

Being forgiven and reconciled with God sets us on the journey to becoming _________.

ParticipationInTheCultOfEmperorsConsideredAppropriateDemonstrationOfThanksBecauseEmperorsWereResponsibleFor(select many)

No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, shall enter the Lord GOD’s sanctuary. (Verse)

WhIch of the following were motives that Paul ascribed to the rival teachers (select as many as apply)?

What do the "works of law" that Paul attacks, represent?

Paul visits Corinth, en route to Macedonia, which departed from his original plan.

Paul transforms suffering for the sake of the Name into:

Following the Spirit, Christians will be transformed into a community of mutual: 

What kinds of pressure wouldve been applied to converts to get them to return to a "suitable" way of life (select many)?

Placing ____ in God & following wherever God leads, then, leads to the fulfillment of God's good purposes for humankind.

The Pastoral Epistles display a great interest in the ________ of those people entrusted with local leadership.

Which of the following are areas in which Paul gives instructions in First Timothy (select as many as apply)?

Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica after evangelizing what city?

The letter to Titus presumes a mission to ________ by Paul and Titus.

Which of the following characterize how deSilva’s locates the Galatian crisis (select as many as apply)?

Which of the following passages indicate an OT anticipation that the Gentiles would come to worship God (select many)?

For Paul ________ and _________ are inseparable, not opposed (select the two correct answers).

For Paul, the indisputable sign of the efficacy of Jesus’ work is the Galatians’ reception of:

Second Corinthians 6:14-7:1 interrupts a coherent appeal by Paul to the Corinthians to:

Despite their historical advantages, Jews have no special claim on God's ________.

CacophonyCreatedByTheologicalInquiry&DebateAssociatedW/ReadingRomansSoReaderMayHaveToWorkHarderToHearRomansItself

Which of the following are signs of God's approval and acceptance (select as many as apply)?

Tarsus' dedication  to education in philosophy and rhetoric was on par with cities such as (select as many as apply):

Titus and 1 Timothy affirm the _________ of creation.

What kind of people made up the church at Corinth (select as many as apply)?

In what city does deSilva think Paul was imprisoned when he wrote the Epistle to Philemon?

How did Paul receive the information about the developments in the Corinthian church (select as many as apply)?

Pastoral Epistles are distinctive among NT epistles for amount of attention they give to qualities&responsibilities of:

deSilva agrees with those who have argued (in his opinion more persuasively) that Romans is written to (select as many):

The "tearful letter"

A large percentage of Philippians is crafted to advance Paul's goal of nurturing/restoring a spirit of (select many):

Paul's life ended where?

First Timothy presupposes that Timothy was left in __________ by Paul while the latter made a brief visit to Macedonia.

In his letter to the Philippians, Paul writes to believers who (select as many as apply):

Thessalonica retained more of its ________ identity into the Roman period.

Paul personally evangelized the city of Colossae. 

WhatpopularrhetoricPaulavoidknowingtheydunderminetransformationGodsought achieve in peoples lives through cross of Jesus

Which of the following characterize the pre-Christian Paul (select as many as apply)?