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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Athronges' occupation?
(a) Actor.
(b) Salesman.
(c) Shepherd.
(d) Priest.
2. What does the Hebrew word Almah mean in English?
(a) Child born out of wedlock.
(b) A newly married virgin.
(c) A man of God.
(d) An evil spirit.
3. What does the author say Jesus' use of the word poor more accurately translates into?
(a) Impoverished.
(b) Destitute.
(c) Desperate.
(d) Poverty.
4. What did Jesus teach that heaven was not?
(a) Hellish.
(b) Heavenly.
(c) A myth.
(d) Earthly.
5. What aristocratic Jewish historian does the author draw on to examine the Greco-Roman period?
(a) Circero.
(b) Josephus.
(c) Augustus.
(d) Simon.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the title of the other book the author wrote about Jesus in 1991?
2. What type of society was Roman society?
3. What words does the author use to describe John the Baptist's style of preaching?
4. What was the name of Celsus' book that attacked religion?
5. Complete the following title: "From Fasting to..."
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Q Gospel?
2. What does the author claim is the primary focus of Josephus' writings?
3. What does it mean that Jesus was an artisan?
4. Why does the author think that people have interpreted Jesus as being as messianic and apocalyptic as John the Baptist?
5. Why did the Romans want to suppress both John the Baptist and Jesus?
6. What did ancient society believe about children that were not accepted by their father?
7. What does the author think Jesus meant by "focus not just on personal or individual abuse of power but on such abuse in its systemic [form]."?
8. What does the author say compounds the core problem of the different interpretations of Jesus' life?
9. Summarize the two quotes that open this chapter.
10. What were the differences between the Baptists and Jesus' teachings?
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