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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Claiming Israel's Epic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two systems helped define the temple-state?
(a) Power and cruelty.
(b) Purity and salvation.
(c) Salvation and logic.
(d) Power and purity.

2. Whose stories are mimicked in the Miracle Stories?
(a) Greek mythology.
(b) The Jewish scriptures.
(c) The Egyptian scriptures.
(d) Roman myth.

3. What was the Greek concept of civilization?
(a) The republic.
(b) The Church.
(c) The city-state.
(d) The temple-state.

4. What does Mack note causes some of the differences between the stories of the New Testament?
(a) They were written by different people from different groups.
(b) They were written by different people of the same group.
(c) They were written by the same person over the course of time.
(d) They were written by one person, posing as different people.

5. What did Justin argue to the Romans about Christianity?
(a) That it hurt their government.
(b) That it actually helped them.
(c) That it was better than Judaism.
(d) That all Christians should be exiled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Valentinus' claim about what Christ made possible, in terms of knowledge of God?

2. Who did Paul argue was the seed of Abraham?

3. What feature of the Christ cult does Mack claim Paul found irresistible?

4. What two notions was Paul caught between in the question of what to do with those already dead?

5. What does each of these movements attempt to link Jesus to, according to Mack?

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