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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Letters from the Apostles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack claim the Christ hymn was the result of?
(a) A burning desire for a personal Deity.
(b) A lie by the disciples.
(c) A vision of Paul.
(d) A conflict of authority.

2. When would eternal life be obtained, according the Mack's depiction of Paul's letters to the Thessalonians?
(a) In death.
(b) At the end of time.
(c) In accepting Christ.
(d) Never.

3. When does Mack claim most of the works discussed in Chapter 8 were written?
(a) The fifth century.
(b) The second, third, and fourth centuries.
(c) The eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
(d) The first century.

4. What does Mack argue John was worried about, which resulted in his authorship of Revelations?
(a) False teachings and affliction.
(b) Sickness and affliction.
(c) Persecution and execution.
(d) False teaching and sickness.

5. What is the name of the form of mythmaking Mack notes these early Jesus people were engaged in?
(a) Epic authorship.
(b) Epic mythmaking.
(c) Epic tradition.
(d) Epic revision.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?

2. What word is used to imply the significance of the miracle stories in the Gospel of John?

3. What was the shift in mythmaking, according to Mack, that occurred at the turn of the second century?

4. What does Mack claim about the various groups that formed in the schools of Jesus?

5. How did early Christians think of their world?

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