Study Guide: RS10 Unit Test #3
Acts and Paul's Letters
The following Guide is intended to nudge you into various areas to be covered by our third unit test, scheduled for Thursday, April 15 (note change from syllabus). As you prepare, make good use of your Bible, class texts (Gundry, Longenecker), your lecture notes and web resources (syllabus, links, etc.).
1. Map of Mediterranean World
- study the maps on SNT p. 317, and be able to locate the following cities, regions or seas:
- Cities: Philippi, Corinth, Athens, Ephesus, Syrian Antioch, Jerusalem, Thessalonica, Rome
- Regions: Asia, Galatia, Italy, Macedonia, Achaia, Syria, Judea, Cyprus
- Seas: Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea
- Locations will be shown as numbers on a map. Match the number with its names in a list. I will pick one of Paul's journeys for you to draw, and will ask you to label some of the cities. You might find helpful the outline on Gundry, pp. 305-306 and the chart on Gundry, pp.318-319.
2. Acts
- Acts 1-2, 7, 9: be able to answer questions on the content of these chapters
- parallels and overlap between Luke and Acts, and between Luke 24 and Acts 1
- the three chapters / episodes in Acts where speaking in tongues is mentioned
- the barriers overcome by the outpouring of the Spirit (according to Joel 2): gender, age and social status
- the way Pentecost seems to reverse the curse of Babel (Genesis
10-11)
- characteristics of early Christian prayer, according to Acts 4:24-31
- correlations between Psalm 2 and the life of Jesus, according to Acts 4:25-27
- correlation between Moses and Jesus, according to Acts 7:22-37
- match sections of Acts 9-28 with major
events in Paul's life, as follows:
- Conversion
- 1st journey
- 2nd journey
- 3rd journey
- Arrest in Jerusalem
- Journey to Rome
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- Acts 9
- Acts 13-14
- Acts 16-18
- Acts 18-21
- Acts 21-26
- Acts 27-28
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- two of Paul's journeys (Acts 12:25-14:28
and Acts 15:36-18:22)
- first journey: review especially episodes
on Cyprus, in Pisidian Antioch and Lystra
- second journey: review especially episodes in Philippi, Thessalonica, Athens and Corinth
- samples of factual questions:
- who was the proconsul of the island
of Cyprus?
- with what god was Barnabas confused
in Lystra?
- with what two philosophical schools
did Paul converse in what major Greek city on his 2nd journey?
3. Paul's Epistles
- which New Testament letters are Pauline; to which sub-group each Pauline epistle belongs
- for which letters Pauline authorship is undisputed, disputed and hotly disputed
- content of the following chapters guided by class notes: Galatians 5; 1 Thessalonians 4; 1 Corinthians 8, 11, 12; Romans 1, 11; Ephesians 5; Philippians 2-3; 1 Timothy 2. Know key ideas, themes and general content of these selected chapters.
4. Lost Letters of Pergamum
- review pages 9-132, noting in particular the following themes:
- the gladiatorial games (25-26, 65-67)
- emperor Domitian (43, 55-56)
- emperor Nero (44-46, 51-52, 56)
- Josephus (56-58)
- Essenes and John the Baptist (68-71)
- Asklepios (85-86)
- Samaritans (94)
- Jesus and the Cynics (103-104)
- Pilate (110-111)
- Galilean life from a peasant's perspective (124-128)