Go here for Introduction to this Week's Assignment

Go here for InterNet Links for this Week's Assignment

This Week's Assignment : Twenty Questions

Remember to cite your sources

1. Give the titles, authors, and call letters for three books on the Pauline Epistles available in the Golden Library. Students who are not on the Portales campus may perform a search of the Golden Library holdings by going to http://library.unm.edu/search~S12
2. What is the address of the Public Library in the town where you are living. Where are the Religion books shelved in that library (call letters)
3. Give the URLs of three useful Search Engines on the InterNet (eg. Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com/ - but you may not give Yahoo as one of your answers)
4. Give the URLs of three On-Line Bible study sites. Who sponsors those sites (eg. college, denomination, church, individual person, Bible Society ?)
5. Give the URLs of three sites dealing with the Life and Ministry of St. Paul. Comment briefly on each of these sites.
6. Give the URLs of three sites dealing with the History of Rome. Comment briefly on each of these sites.
7. Give the URLs of three sites dealing with the History of the Early Church. Comment briefly on each of these sites.
8. Give the URLs of three sites which show maps of the Mediterranean in the first century AD. Comment briefly on each of these sites.
9. Using the Map of the Mediterranean World (page 5 of the textbook) - to what modern countries do Gaul, Achaia, Illyricum, and Asia Minor correspond
10. Where was Ephesus located
11. Where was Philippi located
12. Where was Colosse located
13. Which were written first - the Gospels or the Pauline Epistles? Can you think of a reason?
14. Who else wrote Epistles which have been included in the New Testament?
15. Who was the probable author of the Book of Acts? What evidence can you think of for this?
16. How does the Book of Acts relate to the Epistles?
17. When was Jerusalem destroyed by the Romans? How does this help us to date most of the Epistles?
18. What language did the Romans speak? What language did the Jews of Jerusalem speak? Most people of that time were probably fluent in several languages. Give the "official language" of each of these peoples
19. In what language were the Books of the New Testament written? What reason can you think of for this?
20. List the Books of the New Testament in the order in which they were written, with the dates. NOTE - There are some Books whose dates are uncertain - give the probable date(s) for these

Use MSWord or a text editor such as Notepad to prepare and save your work, then send it as an Attachment to, or pasted into, an email message to Dr. Rollinson at rollinsondr@yahoo.com,rollinsondr@hellokitty.com,rollinsondr@catholic.org.
Please use all 3 email addresses in case any of the mailboxes go down.