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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 word "gospel" mean?

2. What does Yancey object to in modern Christmas cards?

3. Why is Yancey drawn to Jesus, according to Chapter 1?

4. Who fights against Antiochus?

5. What does the name Jesus mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Yancey say about parallel worlds in Chapter 1?

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

5. What are the Beatitudes?

6. What were the Maccabeans fighting against?

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

8. What is the Temptation in the desert?

9. What does Yancey say the Communist party had trouble with?

10. Who is Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson?

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

Describe the general historical context Jesus grew up in based on Chapter 3

1) What was the world like when Jesus walked the earth?

2) Who was in charge?

3) What was the political and religious atmosphere?

Essay Topic 3

What in the Pharisee-influenced world that Jesus lived in did he stand against? Why was he so radical in terms of his own present day religious climate?

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