Core 1 Literal vs Contextual

Mark said to Kyle, “wow your new shoes are sick!” Kyle

replied, “shoes can’t feel ill, what are you talking about?” This

dialogue shows that Kyle

• didn’t understand the various meanings of the word sick

• took the word “sick” to mean literally unwell or ill

• understood through the context that sick meant cool

• both a and b

The gospel writer Luke was probably a doctor. Knowing this helps the readers of his gospel understand

• that Luke was Jewish

• why Luke wrote a lot about people who were suffering

• why Luke uses the symbol of a sheep

• none of the above

Sheep are a common symbol used in the New and Old

Testaments. This is because

• Jewish people had pet sheep

• Jewish culture was connected to shepherding and to sheep

  as a source of food and clothing

• lambs are cute

• all of the above

Poems are a ______________ of writing

• genres

• short form

• confusing type

• none of the above

If we read the Good Samaritan story only literally, then the

story is about

• helping a person who is hurt

• doing an act of charity

• theft

• both a and b

If we read the Good Samaritan contextually, then the story

is about more than helping a stranger. The story is also about

• not following laws when those laws prevent you from doing good

  for others

• seeing the goodness in the so called enemy

• recognizing that those people we think of as the “best” in society

  may not actually be loving

• all of the above

Being unclean in Jesus’ time meant

• you were considered to be far from God

• you were not able to take a daily shower

• you were considered unfit to be in God’s presence

• both a and c

Being clean means

• you were considered to be close to God

• you were well groomed and always wearing clean clothes

• you were considered fit to be in God’s presence

• both a and c

Jesus was

• Catholic

• Jewish

• a Samaritan

• all of the above

Exegesis is

• a way to interpret the Bible

• a literal translation of the Bible

• talking to the author of the story

• all of the above