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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Chicago crime leader in the author's example get a not-guilty verdict in court?

2. What criterion does Boyd use in determining that the Jesus in the Bible is not the Jesus who is son of God?

3. When the law changed and the Chicago crime leader was retried, what was used to get a guilty verdict?

4. What kind of evidence was Jeffry McDonald's conviction based on?

5. What is the second test the author applies to decide whether it is the gospel writers' intention to preserve history accurately?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many parts does the author break the book into and what does he title them?

2. Who makes up the Jesus Seminar?

3. List one of the three reasons that a document might have been omitted from the New Testament.

4. What is the author's religious background?

5. In what language are the four languages of the secondary manuscripts written that authenticate the reliablity of the gospels?

6. Does archeology contradict or confirm the reliability of the gospels?

7. Who was Luke and what did he write?

8. Who was John Mark and what did he write?

9. What, according to the gospel, is John's purpose in writing the information?

10. What is the purpose of the author's intention test?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is an anecdote, and what is its role in nonfiction? Specifically, what is the importance of anecdotes in this story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the promises and challenges of translations of ancient literature. How does the author justify the translations of the Bible?

Essay Topic 3

What was the writer's purpose in this book? Was the writer's purpose the same throughout his research, or did his purpose change? Support your answers.

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