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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. What does the name Jesus mean?

2. What does the word "gospel" mean?

3. Who is the treasurer for Jesus's disciples?

4. What do the Essenes believe in?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does Yancey say the Gospels assert that Jesus is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it that restores Jesus's humanity for Yancey?

2. What experience did Yancey have that began to change his understanding of Jesus?

3. What does Jesus change about the way people worship?

4. What does the name of Jesus mean?

5. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

6. How does the gospel of Matthew open and what is the importance of that?

7. What is the one word label Yancey would bestow upon Jesus?

8. What may Satan have taken away from the confrontation with Jesus in the wilderness?

9. What are the Beatitudes?

10. Why does Yancey find the Beatitudes so difficult?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Jesus mean by the term "my kingdom"? How does Yancey see the Kingdom of God as different from national or political entities? What does Yancey believe the kingdom of God means?

Essay Topic 2

What are the basic characteristics of the sub-groups within the Jewish culture: Essenes, Zealots, Sadducees, and Pharisees?

Describe each and what part they played in the culture of Jesus's day.

Essay Topic 3

Why is it important for Christians to acknowledge the Jewish roots of Jesus? What might have been different over the past 2000 years if Jesus had been identified more strongly as a Jewish rabbi?

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