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Paul saw himself as one of the victors sent by god as part of the triumphal procession?
T or F
False
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The cynics were criticized for?
Begging for money and telling rough jokes
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After leaving Ephesus, the Lord "opened a door" for the gospel in...
Troas
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Unlike many of his Jewish friends, Paul did not seem to display an awareness of how craft Satan is?
T or F
False
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The "Roman triumph" was essentially a:
huge parade
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After the Romans defeated Judea in the Jewish war, they set up in Rome...
The arch of Titus
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The last part of the "Roman tiumph" was when...
Prisoners were killed
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The Sophist generally were highly regarded in Paul's day?
T or F
False
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Paul was proud to be called a "peddler of the gospel"?
T or F
False
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Paul did not think that the Corinthian church had sufficiently punished the man who had attacked him on the "painful visit"?
T or F
False
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Paul called ____ a "ministry of death"
The Mosaic Law
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Erastus was commended for?
Laying pavement in Corinth
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The man who wore a "veil" was...
Moses
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Although we know that Jews lived in Corinth, no evidence of a synagogue has been found in the city?
T or F
False
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The author in making application tells the story of a missionary in a ____ country.
Hindu
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Although familiar to us today, letters of reference were almost unknown in Paul's day?
T or F
False
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Most mirrors in antiquity were made of polished metal and produced unclear images?
T or F
True
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The judgement seat in the forum at Corinth was called the...
Bema
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Paul's emphasis on the "new covenant" was influenced by the OT prophet...
Jeremiah
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Erastus in the famous "Erastus Inscription" in Corinth was...
the "city treasurer"
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The prase "a tool that speaks" referred to...
slaves
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the paradox of the Christian life is inner revewal in the midst of outer, physical decay?
T or F
True
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In some ways Paul and his colleagues, at least on the surface, looked like other itinerant preachers and philosophers?
T or F
True
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As far as we can tell, Corinth did not have an emperior cult?
T or F
False
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Mastema, Azael, Samael and "god" are other names for...
Satan
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The first emperor to be deified as a "god" was...
Julius Caesar
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The Christian ___ was burned at the stake for refusing to pay homage to the Roman gods and the Roman emperor.
Polycarp
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Unlike many of the philosophers of his day, Paul is not negative about the physical body?
T or F
True
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The emperor Domitian was called...
Lord and God
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Paul said that the gospel was contained in...
Jars of clay
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Greek writers described the body as...
A prison of the soul
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Paul compares the temporary nature of this physical body with a...
Tent
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The phrase "new creation" was particular to Paul and unknow in Judaism?
T or F
False
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The most dazzling orators of Paul's day were the...
Sophists
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The word "gymnasium" is related to the Greek word for...
Naked
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The words, "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not" were found inscribed on....
Grave markers
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As a general rule, nakedness did not bother Jews?
T or F
False
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The bema at Corinth was not only a place for judicial pronouncements, but also served as...
A platform for public oration
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"Reconciliation" has its background in...
Politics
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During the intermediate "naked state" the soul and/or spirit is temporarily separate from the body?
T or F
True
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In the Mediterranean world core values included...
Honor and shame
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Since most homes in Corinth did not have much room, the ___ provided facilities for entertaining at dinner parties...
temples
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The Roman god of war was...
Mars
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Like others in the first century, Paul in his "hardship lists" stressed self reliance?
T or F
False
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Belial is another name for...
Satan
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The "hardship catalogs" of Paul listing some of the hardship he endured were also common among the...
Cynics and Stoics
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As far as we know, there was a temple of Aphrodite in Corinth, but not a temple of Apollo?
T or F
False
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The warning "not to be yoked with unbelievers" especially applied to christians in Corinth frequenting pagan temples?
T or F
True
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Paul in no way undermines the significance of the temple in Jerusalem?
T or F
False
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In the Roman army infantryman carried two of these...
Medium lenght javelins
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Repentance is, the author says, mainly done only at the beginning of the Christian life?
T or F
False
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The god of healing was...
Asclepius
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The ancient philosophy that stressed lack of emotion, feeling or attachment in life was...
Stoicism
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The goddess of health was..
Hygieia
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Worldy sorrow for sin is the same as repentance?
T or F
False
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This colleague and helper to Paul was a Greek, had traveled to Jerusalem with Paul and later was sent to Crete. Who is he?
Titus
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One of Paul's Jewish contemporaries pictured repentance as...
A beautiful angel
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Paul was very relieved at the treatment ___ received from the Corinthians after being sent to them.
Titus
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In antiquity, the word "salvation" usually meant deliverance from calamity rather than eternal life?
T or F
True
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Candid speech was not favored in the ancient world between either friends or foes?
T or F
False
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The population of Corinth during Paul's day was about ___.
100,000
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Some think that chapters 10-13 belong to an earlier letter because they are so negative?
T or F
True
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The Corinthians thought Paul was fickle because...
he had changed his travel plans
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Paul's new opponents in Corinth had recently arrived from: (2nd Cor.)
Judea
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The maximum number of guests that even large, elegant villas could hold at Corinth was about ___ persons:
50 ppl
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The "god of oaths" among the ancients was...
Zeus
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By the time 2 Corinthians was written most, if not all of the problems which are reflected in 1st Corinthians, had been settled?
T or F
False
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On the "painful visit" Paul made to Corinth he was...
attacked by a member of the congregation
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The Corinthians appreciated Paul's willingness to make tents rather than accept their patronage?
T or F
False
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Paul says that the ___ was an "arrabon" or down payment in lieu of a full payment later on.
Holy Spirit
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