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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 was the first act in Valentinus' cosmic drama?
(a) Man was created.
(b) The world was created.
(c) The world was destroyed.
(d) Man was destroyed.

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

3. What feature of the Christ cult does Mack claim Paul found irresistible?
(a) The concept of a group dedicated to Jesus and the Jewish codes of cleanliness.
(b) The concept of a social group with mixed ethnicity and social status.
(c) The concept of an unmixed social group.
(d) The concept of a social group of only the lower class.

4. What does Mack argue the Letter to the Hebrews is, in reality?
(a) Letters that should be attributed to Paul.
(b) A philosophical exhortation.
(c) False letters from the Jewish leaders.
(d) A statement of principle.

5. What did early people think their society was based on?
(a) The model of the universe.
(b) The model of the gods.
(c) The model of the Jewish state.
(d) The model of the Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Paul's Jewish sensibility place high value on?

2. What did Paul's argument do to Jews and Christians?

3. When did Jesus Movements start in Galilee?

4. What feature of the Jerusalem group allows readers to build a profile?

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

(see the answer key)

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