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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. What did Paul's Jewish sensibility place high value on?
(a) Divinity.
(b) Honor.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Community.

2. What does Mack claim is Mark's greatest achievement?
(a) That he succeeded in publishing his work.
(b) That he succeeded in tying Jesus with Moses.
(c) That he succeeded in converting the Jews.
(d) That he succeeded in creating the origins for Christian imagination.

3. What was the shift in mythmaking, according to Mack, that occurred at the turn of the second century?
(a) Christians began to disassociate from John.
(b) Christians began to associate gospels with disciples.
(c) Christians began to attribute more writings to Jesus himself.
(d) Christians began to leave behind the gospels.

4. What does Mack argue the Gospel of Matthew is a document for?
(a) Judaism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Jewish Christianity.
(d) The Christ cult.

5. What did the temple at Jerusalem serve as, in terms of a symbol?
(a) It was the symbol of Jewish presence.
(b) It was the symbol of peace.
(c) It was the symbol of Jesus.
(d) It was the symbol of God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Mack claim that the Jesus cult succeeded?

3. What does Mack claim is the link that gives the Christian Bible logic and force?

4. How many layers of the Gospel Q exist?

5. Why were issues such as homosexuality a source of cultural conflict?

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