Exam 17: Christian Conflicts With Jews and Pagans: Hebrews and 1 Peter

Who leaves behind a father and infant son to suffer martyrdom in a Roman amphitheatre?

Hebrews was most likely _____.

The first known governmental action against Christians was perpetrated by _____.

The author of 1 Peter addresses his audience as _____.

Discuss Jesus' superiority to all things Jewish in the Epistle to the Hebrews. To what, exactly, is Jesus superior? What is the author's point in underscoring this?

Scholars have suggested all of the following contributed to Christian conversions in the first three centuries of the faith except _____.

According to 1 Peter, for what must Christians not suffer?

Which of the following is not a catholic epistle?

All of the following are true about Christianity in the Roman Empire except _____.

In Nero's persecution of Christianity, Christians were accused of _____.

Discuss how the Epistle to the Hebrews uses the concepts of "shadow" and "reality" to explain Christ. Where did these ideas come from and how does the author use them to promote his view of the superiority of Christianity?

According to the Epistle of Barnabas, Judaism is _____.

1 Peter claims to have been written in Babylon, a most likely a code word for _____.

The author of Hebrews believed that _____.

The Epistle to the Hebrews depicts the Law as_____.

Hebrews compares Jesus' priesthood to that of this biblical figure.

In earliest Christianity, all of the following were true except _____.

The primary point of Hebrews is to show that _____.

Opponents of Christianity suggested all of the following except _____.

1 Peter was probably written _____.