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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 realms did the Corinthians combine?
(a) The Christ myth and Jewish belief.
(b) Greek philosophy and Jewish belief.
(c) Greek philosophy and the Christ myth.
(d) Jewish belief and Greek myth.

2. What does Mack claim both Marcion and Valentinus offered?
(a) A way to avoid God.
(b) An ancient way to view God.
(c) A new way to view God.
(d) A revised way to view God.

3. What term replaced "disciples"?
(a) Cultists.
(b) Acolytes.
(c) Apostles.
(d) Followers.

4. What did Paul's Jewish sensibility place high value on?
(a) Holiness.
(b) Community.
(c) Divinity.
(d) Honor.

5. What does the passage in Romans 3:21-26 say about why Jesus' death was effective?
(a) Because he was faithful.
(b) Because he was justified.
(c) Because he was the son of God.
(d) Because he was a sinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?

2. Where did Rome place its power in the second and first centuries?

3. What does Mack claim is the point of the Letter of James?

4. What did early people think their society was based on?

5. What concept was important to the Jewish temple-state, the Greek polis, and the Roman system of government?

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