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

2. How did the Christ cult differ form the Jesus movement?
(a) It focused on Jesus' life and his teachings.
(b) It focused on Jesus' death and his teachings.
(c) It focused on Jesus' life and celebrated his spirit.
(d) It focused on Jesus' death and celebrated his spirit.

3. How does John portray Jesus, according to Mack?
(a) As a powerful ruler.
(b) As a teacher.
(c) As the spirit of God.
(d) As a cosmic Lord.

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

5. What is the name of the form of mythmaking Mack notes these early Jesus people were engaged in?
(a) Epic authorship.
(b) Epic mythmaking.
(c) Epic revision.
(d) Epic tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Epistles of Peter and Jude called the Catholic epistles?

2. What did the Greek model of civilization give rise to?

3. Who began to give an account of the new religion to Greeks, Romans, and others?

4. Why does Mack claim the Bible was important by the end of the fourth century?

5. How did Mark portray Jesus?

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