View a FREE sample

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 claim is the link that gives the Christian Bible logic and force?
(a) The link between the Jewish temple, and the New Testament.
(b) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the Catholic Church.
(c) The link between the Protestant Bible and the Apocrypha.
(d) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the New Testament.

2. What does Mack claim the author of the Acts of the Apostles set out to show?
(a) Disagreement among the apostles.
(b) Disagreement between Christianity and Judaism.
(c) Agreement between Christianity and Judaism.
(d) Agreement among the apostles.

3. What does Mack claim is the purpose of the Miracle Stories of Mark?
(a) To explain the supernatural powers of the disciples.
(b) To describe the wonders of faith.
(c) To explain historic facts of Jesus.
(d) To create the impression of a divine power.

4. Which of the layers of Q is least embellished?
(a) The second.
(b) The third.
(c) The first.
(d) The fifth.

5. What does Mack argue John was worried about, which resulted in his authorship of Revelations?
(a) False teachings and affliction.
(b) False teaching and sickness.
(c) Sickness and affliction.
(d) Persecution and execution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack believe the figure of Jesus became with the Pronouncement Stories?

2. Who does Mack claim most of the sermons in the Acts of the Apostles are written for?

3. What did the Centrists seek to prove to the challengers?

4. How many miracles occur in the Gospel of John?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 350 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample