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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 does Mack believe the figure of Jesus became with the Pronouncement Stories?
(a) Interpreter of the law.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A martyr.
(d) A mystic.

2. What does Mack claim was the slogan for Paul's gospel?
(a) Freedom from the law.
(b) Freedom from exile.
(c) Freedom from persecution.
(d) Freedom from sin.

3. What is a Christ hymn?
(a) A genre of poetry to the angels.
(b) A genre of praise poetry.
(c) A song specifically geared toward God.
(d) A song specifically geared toward Jesus.

4. What did Paul's argument do to Jews and Christians?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Made the two into one religion.
(c) Put the two together in brotherhood.
(d) Set Jews in opposition to Christians.

5. Who began to give an account of the new religion to Greeks, Romans, and others?
(a) Christian intellectuals.
(b) Jewish intellectuals.
(c) Roman rulers.
(d) Local Bishops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carsten Thiede claim about the Magdalen fragments?

2. What three figures did Paul bring together to combat the concept that the divine spirit was all that mattered?

3. What does the passage in Romans 3:21-26 say about why Jesus' death was effective?

4. How did the Christ cult differ form the Jesus movement?

5. What does Mark's gospel do to the disciples that the story of Q did not?

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