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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 Antiochus try to do to the Jews?

2. What does Yancey say a major problem is in looking at the historical Jesus?

3. What language does Jesus speak on a daily basis?

4. In Chapter 6, what does Yancey admit to being?

5. What does the Gospel of Mark say about why Jesus chose the Twelve?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jesus look like?

2. Why does Yancey find the Beatitudes so difficult?

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

4. What are the Beatitudes?

5. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

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

7. What does Yancey do with the extremism of Jesus?

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

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

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

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 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 3

Briefly describe the profile of Jesus that Yancey lays out in Chapter 2. What word associations does he choose and why?

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