Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Test | Final Test - Easy

Burton L. Mack
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Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Test | Final Test - Easy

Burton L. Mack
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is contained in 1 Clement?
(a) Instructions for congregations.
(b) Sayings of Jesus.
(c) An admonishment to Corinth congregations.
(d) The story of Jesus.

3. When do scholars place the writing of the Gospel of John?
(a) Before Christ.
(b) In the 1800s.
(c) In the third century.
(d) In the 90s.

4. In Revelations, who was found worthy enough to open the seven seals?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Man.
(c) Moses.
(d) The lamb.

5. What two sources does Mack claim Matthew used for his gospel?
(a) The book of Q and the gospel of Mark.
(b) The gospel of Mark and the gospel of Luke.
(c) The book of Q and the gospel of Luke.
(d) The book of Q and the gospel of the Christ cult.

6. What does Mack claim the author of Acts found, in terms of an answer to what Christianity owed to Jewish history?
(a) The Christ myth.
(b) The laws of purity.
(c) A reliance on righteousness.
(d) The concept of sacrifice.

7. What was the core objective of the epic of Israel through the end of the second temple?
(a) The establishment of the Church.
(b) The confirmation of the death of Christ.
(c) The establishment of the temple-state.
(d) The confirmation of God as a Jewish myth.

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

9. Where did the writer of the gospel of Luke write the gospel, according to Mack?
(a) Nazareth.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Rome.
(d) A location near the Aegean Sea.

10. Who first discussed the twelve disciples?
(a) John.
(b) Luke.
(c) Paul.
(d) Matthew.

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

12. Who began to give an account of the new religion to Greeks, Romans, and others?
(a) Christian intellectuals.
(b) Jewish intellectuals.
(c) Roman rulers.
(d) Local Bishops.

13. What list became the Christian Bible?
(a) The list of Jerome's translations.
(b) The letter of Trier.
(c) The list of Eusebius.
(d) The Festal Letter of Athenasius.

14. It is as important for the disciples to be apostles as it is for Jesus to be ___________________.
(a) Son of man.
(b) The Christ.
(c) Son of God.
(d) God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose conversion eventually led to the creation of the New Testament?

2. How did Luke portray Jesus?

3. What does Mack claim about Justin's treatise to the Jews?

4. What did Justin argue to the Romans about Christianity?

5. What was the first act in Valentinus' cosmic drama?

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