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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why were issues such as homosexuality a source of cultural conflict?
(a) It was accepted by all cultures.
(b) It was not accepted by any culture.
(c) It was unheard of in any culture.
(d) It was accepted by one culture, and rejected by another.

3. What does the term "Christ" imply?
(a) That Jesus was approved by God.
(b) That Jesus was God.
(c) That Jesus was the son of God.
(d) That Jesus was mortal.

4. What does Mack note is mythmaking on a cosmic scale, in terms of the Christ hymn in Philippians 2:6-11?
(a) The concept of Jesus as a religious leader.
(b) The reference to Jesus as lord.
(c) The reference to Jesus as son of God.
(d) The reference to Jesus as a martyr.

5. What is a Christ hymn?
(a) A song specifically geared toward God.
(b) A song specifically geared toward Jesus.
(c) A genre of praise poetry.
(d) A genre of poetry to the angels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were some artifacts that helped preserve one's culture?

2. What did Paul's Jewish sensibility place high value on?

3. What happened at Corinth that made Paul nervous?

4. What two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?

5. Why does Mack state that people become silent when confronted with Biblical information?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Paul's concept of the spiritual body.

2. Explain the findings of Carsten Thiede, Mack's response, and what this argument shows.

3. What is the catch-22 Mack finds when discussing the New Testament and the origins of the Christian Church?

4. What is the fifth Jesus movement discussed in the book, and what is/are the primary components of the movement's teachings?

5. What are the four types of material within the letters to the Corinthians?

6. What three factors surfaced as questions to answer that would help the different culture's relate to one another, and why were they important?

7. Explain how Mack views the authors of the literature in the New Testament.

8. What are the four features of the Christ myth Mack claims are a result of the involvement of God?

9. What is the first Jesus movement discussed in the book, and what is/are the primary components of the movement's teachings?

10. What myths did the concept of the death and resurrection of Christ draw upon?

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