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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Letters from the Apostles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose stories are mimicked in the Miracle Stories?
(a) Roman myth.
(b) Greek mythology.
(c) The Egyptian scriptures.
(d) The Jewish scriptures.

2. What does Mack note the Corinthians are the first example of?
(a) A congregation of Paul's disciples.
(b) A congregation of Jews.
(c) A congregation gone awry.
(d) A Hellenistic, urban congregation.

3. What two systems helped define the temple-state?
(a) Power and purity.
(b) Purity and salvation.
(c) Salvation and logic.
(d) Power and cruelty.

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

5. Why does Mack argue Jesus' death is qualitatively different from all other deaths of the prophets?
(a) Jesus was a martyr.
(b) Jesus was immortal.
(c) Jesus was the enemy of the state.
(d) Jesus was the son of God.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What two realms did the Corinthians combine?

4. In the temple-state model of civilization, what system does the priest represent?

5. What word is used to imply the significance of the miracle stories in the Gospel of John?

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