NBST 520 Quiz Prison

NBST 520 Quiz: The Prison and Pastoral Epistles

1. Which Pauline letter was likely written in an effort to secure the release of a runaway slave?
2. According to the presentations, the Pauline letter that comes off a bit like a “last will and testament” is
3. Paul’s answer to the Colossian heresy was to emphasize the supremacy of Christ.
4. Philemon was a slave who fled to Rome and helped Paul in prison.
5. According to the presentations, in Paul’s day, Thessalonica was a “free city” under Roman rule.
6. According to Elwell, New Testament figures who came from or lived in Colossae include Epaphras, Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, and Onesimus.
7. According to Elwell, the temple of Apollo at Ephesus was considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
8. According to Elwell, which of Paul’s letters concludes with the imagery that the Christian life is an ongoing struggle against evil powers that requires the Christian to don God’s armor for protection?
9. According to Elwell, Christology (one’s understanding of who Jesus is) is at the center of Paul’s Letter to the Colossians and is expressed in a series of profound assertions regarding Jesus Christ.
10. The Prison Letters of Paul were composed while Paul was imprisoned in Corinth.
11. According to Elwell, Paul’s emphasis on good works in such places as his Letter to Titus should serve as a reminder that his statements on justification by faith should not be taken to mean that good works are optional or unimportant.
12. According to the presentations, Colossae, along with Hieropolis and Laodicea, formed a trinity of cities in Paul’s day.
13. Paul’s famous “hymn” extolling the self-sacrificing “mind of Christ” is found in which of Paul’s Prison Letters?
14. According to Elwell, the fact that Philippians 2:5-11 may be hymnic in character does not preclude the possibility that Paul composed it.
15. According to the presentations, Timothy is the signatory, along with Paul, of six Pauline letters.
16. According to the presentations, a key issue in terms of Pauline authorship of the Pastorals is whether or not Paul was released from his imprisonment in Rome to resume his mission to Spain.
17. According to the presentations, Paul warns Titus about a group he calls “those out of the circumcision,” likely the same, or similar, people Paul encountered at Galatia and Colossae.
18. According to the presentations, Philemon is often associated with which Pauline letter?
19. According to the presentations, which of the following is NOT one of the reasons critics argue that Paul is irrelevant in today’s world?
20. According to Elwell, a distinguishing feature of 1 and 2 Thessalonians is a stress on eschatology (the doctrine of last things).