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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. Where did Yancey grow up?

2. What does Satan ask Jesus to turn a stone into?

3. When does Yancey first get acquainted with Jesus?

4. Where is the Sermon on the Mount in the Bible?

5. What does Francois Mauriac strive to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What language did Jesus speak growing up?

2. What is the concept from Barbara Tuchman of "no flash-forwards"?

3. What is Jacob Neuser's primary objection to Jesus?

4. What does Jesus recommend as a punishment for lustful thinking?

5. What does Yancey discover as he begins to study the Jesus of the Gospels?

6. What does Henri Nouwen do that is so unusual?

7. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

8. What did the students at Texas A & M think of the Beatitudes?

9. What is Yancey's purpose in writing The Jesus I Thought I Knew?

10. What does Yancey say is the true meaning of Christmas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do the Gospels mean when they identify Jesus as the Son of God and what then is the importance of his meeting with Satan in the wilderness? Would the meaning change if Jesus were simply a rabbi?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Yancey choose the title rabbi to most closely describe who the historical Jesus was? What does rabbi mean? How does Yancey describe what a rabbi is? Why is Jesus a rabbi?

Essay Topic 3

The book begins with a personal account of Yancey's life in Christianity.

1) What is Yancey's personal story in terms of his understanding of Jesus?

2) How does his history growing up in the church affect this book?

3) Why does he use his personal experience?

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