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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Paul's Letters to the Greeks and Romans.

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 notion of faith and the Greek concept of religion.
(b) The Jewish notion of resurrection and the Greek concept of immortality.
(c) The Jewish concept of purity and the Greek concept of divinity.
(d) The Jewish notion of the spirit and the Greek concept of the body.

2. What feature of the Jerusalem group allows readers to build a profile?
(a) The leaders' political ambitions are known.
(b) The leaders' names are known.
(c) The leaders' religions are known.
(d) The leaders' home states are known.

3. What three figures did Paul bring together to combat the concept that the divine spirit was all that mattered?
(a) The individual, Christ, and the congregation.
(b) The individual, Christ, and God.
(c) The heart, mind, and soul.
(d) The mind, body, and soul.

4. What was the Greek concept of civilization?
(a) The Church.
(b) The republic.
(c) The temple-state.
(d) The city-state.

5. What was Paul's view on circumcision for the Gentiles?
(a) Paul felt the Gentiles should be circumcised.
(b) Paul never answered the question of circumcision.
(c) Paul let the pillars of Jerusalem answer the question of circumcision.
(d) Paul felt there was no need to circumcise the Gentiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jesus from?

2. What are sophists?

3. What feature of the Christ cult does Mack claim Paul found irresistible?

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

5. What does Mack say the Christ cult laid the foundation for?

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