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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 Francois Mauriac strive to be?

2. Who writes So Long, Sweet Jesus?

3. How many women are mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew?

4. When are the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumram?

5. What does the name Jesus mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Philip Yancey first become acquainted with the stories of Jesus?

2. Why does Yancey grow up not knowing any Jewish people?

3. What is Yancey's interpretation of why God decided not to come in clouds of glory and fix everything?

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

5. What are the three levels of the Beatitudes in Chapter 6?

6. What does the name of Jesus mean?

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

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

9. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Yancey see the miracles of Jesus as signs? What are they signs of and how does that function in the larger understanding of who Jesus is?

Essay Topic 3

What is Yancey's theory about why the historical figure of Jesus has been changed by various cultures and groups to represent very different images? How and why did this happen over time?

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