Question
Peter’s preaching that God has “glorified his servant Jesus” in the Book of Acts arguably draws from this prophetic book’s four Songs named for the “suffering servant.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Old Testament book, the first of the Major Prophets, which foretells the virgin birth of Immanuel.
ANSWER: Book of Isaiah
[10m] In Acts, Philip interprets a Servant Song quoted from Isaiah as a prophecy of Jesus for a figure with this ethnicity. Another figure with this ethnicity, Ebed-Melech, rescues the prophet Jeremiah from a muddy cistern.
ANSWER: Ethiopian [or Ethiops; accept Kushites; prompt on Black or African]
[10h] The Servant Songs are used in support of Apostolic creed described by this Greek term, which refers to the message that Jesus is the Messiah. This term meaning “proclamation” defines passages like Paul’s formulation in First Corinthians that “Christ died for our sins… He was buried / and was raised from the dead.”
ANSWER: kerygma [or kerygmatic]
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Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| Riley et al. | Tunks et al. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| The Present King of James is Bald | Williams et al. | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| World's Fair Wiggle Walk | Free-ish Agents | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |