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

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

3. What does Mack claim the Jews had done since the time of David and Solomon?
(a) Participated in social change.
(b) Revised their epic history.
(c) Recounted their original epic history to retain truth.
(d) Lied about their origins to gain social standing.

4. What was the first act in Valentinus' cosmic drama?
(a) The world was created.
(b) The world was destroyed.
(c) Man was destroyed.
(d) Man was created.

5. What do the sermons in the Acts attempt to do?
(a) Validate the rights of the Jews.
(b) Validate the claims of Jesus.
(c) Validate God.
(d) Validate the authority of the disciples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is contained in the Gospel of Thomas?

2. Who were the Judaizers?

3. What does the gospel of Matthew argue Jesus' teachings were based on?

4. What was the Stoic recommendation for personal virtue?

5. What does the Didache contain?

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