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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Teachings From the Jesus Movements.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack claim happens when a person brings in a Biblical position to an argument of social discussion?
(a) People become bored.
(b) People become angry.
(c) All thinking and reasonable discussion stops.
(d) All religious history is brought up.

2. What are the two activities Mack gives credit to in terms of the creation of Christian beliefs?
(a) Social conflict and experimentation.
(b) Social formation and mythmaking.
(c) Social disintegration and intellectual stimulus.
(d) Apocalyptic preaching and fantasy.

3. What do the pillars in the Jerusalem group do that other Jesus movements do not?
(a) Disobey Jewish purity codes.
(b) Adhere to the Jewish purity codes.
(c) Believe in the creation myth.
(d) Believe in the concept of Jesus as a god.

4. What concept was important to the Jewish temple-state, the Greek polis, and the Roman system of government?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Politics.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Law.

5. Why does Mack think putting aside conventional ideas of the origins of Christianity is difficult for some?
(a) Christians have an investment in the idea that the New Testament is a collection of myths.
(b) Christians have an investment in the idea that the Old Testament is true.
(c) Christians have an investment in the idea that the New Testament is true.
(d) Christians have an investment in the idea that the Church is infallible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Greek model of civilization give rise to?

2. What was contained in the "Jefferson Bible"?

3. What does Mack believe the figure of Jesus became with the Pronouncement Stories?

4. What feature of the Jerusalem group allows readers to build a profile?

5. In the temple-state model of civilization, what system does the priest represent?

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