What aspect of the Greco-Roman world makes it distinctly different from any other time in Greek and Roman civilizations?
The feasibility of traveling from country to country and city to city
The establishment of trade laws
The pervasiveness of the patronage system
The invention of the chariot for transport
The biblical phrase “a day’s journey” typically meant
15 miles on donkey
20 miles on foot
30 miles on foot
30 miles on a donkey
Sailing during the winter virtually stopped during the winter due to bad weather. These months where:
Oct – March
Nov – April
June – Sept
Sept – Feb
One of the greatest fears of the ancients, which is also reflected in their literature, was:
Being robbed on the highway
A humiliating loss of personal social status
Maritime disasters
Invasion from barbarians
Hubbard mentions 4 major institutions of Greco-Roman cities which are important in the NT. Which of these are among the four:
baths
market place
The Forum
A and C
B and A
The temple was the most prominent feature in a city. Which of the following was a function of the temple?
A facility for private parties
A bank for placing deposits and taking loans
A place for holding festivities to the patron god of the temple
All of the above
None of the above
Cursus Honurum means:
The peace of Rome
A Roman ladder of success in political offices
Being held in particular favour by the god
A curse normally delivered by a demon possessed person
Emperor worship began in earnest after the posthumous deification of:
Julius Caesar
Octavian
Mark Antony
Nero
The central element in the synagogue gathering was:
Collection for widows and orphans
reading of the Torah
ceremonial cleansing with water
Prayer and worship
In the Greco-Roman world prisons were used:
As holding tanks for death-row prisoners
As holding tanks for prisoners awaiting trial
As places of punishment for those already sentenced
As places for long-term incarceration
The ______ games were managed by Corinth to make it one of the premier sporting centers in the empire. (fill in the blank)
Isthmian
Olympic
Caesarean
A crucial difference between ancient Mediterranean societies and contemporary western societies is:
The patron-client system
The absence of a middle class
Small population of wealthy elite
The place of women in society
The utter disdain for manual labor among the upper classes best sheds light on which of Paul’s books:
2 timothy
2 Corinthians
1 Corinthians
Ephesians
Which book of Paul’s could be read as an assault on the imperial order?
1 Thessalonians
Hebrews
Philippians
What is Paul’s main thesis in 2 Corinthians? What aspect of Corinthian life would make it hard to accept?
Christ is superior to the emperor: the emperor worship cult
Strength hidden in weakness; the athleticism and competitiveness in society
Working amongst the poor is good and right; the social ideal that manual labor is a socially unacceptable thing
The present suffering is nothing compared to future glory; unbelief in the afterlife
Which aspect of Paul’s life is most affected by its place within the context of the Roman patronage system?
Tent-making
His collection for the poor
Refusal of the Corinthians support in his ministry
His blindness
Hubbard notes that Roman relief efforts for the poor was different from Paul’s collection for the saints because they normally:
Were motivated by a desire to gain status
Gave directly from their own pockets
Helped only Roman citizens
Gave food, not money.
Which book is home to Paul’s “most theologically weighty ideas, penetrating to the heart of his apostleship”?
Colossians
Choose the lists which shows populations from highest to lowest:
Rome, Corinth, Antioch
Rome, Antioch, Corinth
Rome, Corinth, Ephesus
Corinth, Antioch, Rome
Which of the following problems did Greco-Roman cities face?
Social unrest and riots
Overpopulation
Massive disparities in wealth
In the Greco-Roman world, a insulae was:
Multifloor apartment building
Small dining room set aside for entertaining guests
2-3 room domiciles which could double as a workshop or store house
The entrance-way of a typical Roman house
In the Greco-Roman world, a tabernae was:
In the Greco-Roman world, the triclinium was:
The Latin phrase patria potestas means literally:
‘Power of father’
‘order of the family’
‘fatherly authority’
‘right to rule/govern’
The authority of the father over the family ended:
When his son married and started his own home
when his children reached adulthood
when he died
if he was no longer a citizen of Rome
According to Hubbard, what was frequently identified as the fountainhead of all vice:
Divorce and adultery
sexual indulgence
wealth and luxury
ungoverned passions
Which philosophical system saw marriage as a burden that will only hinder a man:
Stoic
Cynic
Epicureans
Asceticists
In general, Stoics and Cynics agreed in their belief that:
Sexual intercourse was for procreation, not pleasure
Marriage was a hindrance
Sexual intercourse was permissible if it was for pleasure
Marriage should be avoided at all costs
According to Hubbard, the percentage of slaves in Rome was:
20-25%
33-40%
17-30%
Over 45%
Augustales were:
Associations of freedmen dedicated to advancing the imperial cult
Descendants of emperor Augustus who were held in special honor
Freed slaves who lived together for protection
A high-class of slaves who often took pride in their position over other slaves
Which is NOT true:
Slavery was seen by Stoics to be a matter of inward condition (ie. Self-mastery)
Seneca was more concerned with the moral development of the slave owner than slavery itself
A slave could only hope to escape cruel treatment by his/her master though death or manumission
Slavery was seen by the Stoics as one of the ‘indifference’ of life
None
According to Hubbard, a crucial part of Paul’s ministry was teaching:
In the market
In the synagogue
From ‘house to house’
In the forum
In what scripture passage does Paul “use almost the whole gamut of familial relations” (pg.200):
1 Thess 2:18-17
2 Cor 3:1-21
Rom 5:12-32
Phil 2:9-20
According to Hubbard, Paul’s comments in 1 Cor 7 corresponds to a large extent to the position of:
Moderate Cynics
Moderate Stoics
The early church
Epictetus
According to Hubbard, which of the following verses is the most important to keep in mind when trying to understand Paul’s view of singleness and marriage:
1 Cor 8:7
1 Cor 7:7
Eph 6:2
Eph 5:26
According to Hubbard, the primary importance of the Christian household was:
A model for the organization of the ecclesia
Platform for the advance of the gospel
Both
Neither
Which city was known for having apostles and elders and a strong leadership structure:
Antioch
Jerusalem
Galatia
Colossae
Timothy and Titus were appointed by Paul to lead the churches in:
Crete and Colossae
Colossae and Thessalonica
Ephesus and Crete
Ephesus and Colossae
In which city was class distinction/discrimination at the Lord’s table a serious problem:
Rome
Ephesus
Corinthians
Crete
According to Hubbard, our concern that the early church does not seem to be overly concerned with the presence of slavery should not be over stated because:
Paul teaches directly against the notion that slavery is acceptable
While Paul may have accepted slavery, Peter and the other apostles did not
Slavery was not as bad in the first century as it later became in the 17th-19th Centuries
Paul brings us into an atmosphere in which the institution of slavery could only wilt and die