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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 two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?
(a) Nature and tyrants.
(b) Priests and rulers.
(c) King and tyrant.
(d) Power and nature.

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

3. When does Mack argue Mark's gospel was written?
(a) After the Roman-Jewish war.
(b) During the fourth century.
(c) Before the Roman-Jewish war.
(d) Prior to the birth of Christ.

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

5. What does Mack claim was added to John 19:35?
(a) A witness who saw Jesus rise.
(b) A witness who saw Jesus turn water to wine.
(c) A witness who saw blood and water come out of Jesus.
(d) A witness who saw blood come out of Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Jewish story of the persecuted sage also called?

2. What does Mack argue John was worried about, which resulted in his authorship of Revelations?

3. Where was Jesus from?

4. Where did the Jesus movement begin their change to the Christ cult?

5. How many layers of the Gospel Q exist?

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