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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 notions was Paul caught between in the question of what to do with those already dead?
(a) The Jewish concept of purity and the Greek concept of divinity.
(b) The Jewish notion of faith and the Greek concept of religion.
(c) The Jewish notion of resurrection and the Greek concept of immortality.
(d) The Jewish notion of the spirit and the Greek concept of the body.

2. What does Mack claim is Mark's greatest achievement?
(a) That he succeeded in converting the Jews.
(b) That he succeeded in tying Jesus with Moses.
(c) That he succeeded in creating the origins for Christian imagination.
(d) That he succeeded in publishing his work.

3. What did the Greek model of civilization give rise to?
(a) Social stratification.
(b) Altruism.
(c) Satanism.
(d) Democracy.

4. How many miracles occur in the Gospel of John?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

5. What role did women play in associations?
(a) Women played the role of caretaker to the association.
(b) Women played no role in associations.
(c) Women played a role supportive to the men.
(d) Women served as members, patrons, and leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mack state that people become silent when confronted with Biblical information?

2. What did Clement argue about the "new song" of Christianity?

3. What did Paul stress was important, since they were "members of Christ"?

4. How many layers of the Gospel Q exist?

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

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