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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 are sophists?
(a) Paid members of the Church.
(b) Believers in the Jewish faith.
(c) Teachers of religious theory in schools.
(d) Wandering teachers who offered insights and knowledge.

2. What does Carsten Thiede claim about the Magdalen fragments?
(a) They are from the mid first century.
(b) They are from the fourth century.
(c) They are not real.
(d) They are from the eighth century.

3. When would eternal life be obtained, according the Mack's depiction of Paul's letters to the Thessalonians?
(a) Never.
(b) In death.
(c) At the end of time.
(d) In accepting Christ.

4. What two notions was Paul caught between in the question of what to do with those already dead?
(a) The Jewish notion of resurrection and the Greek concept of immortality.
(b) The Jewish notion of faith and the Greek concept of religion.
(c) The Jewish notion of the spirit and the Greek concept of the body.
(d) The Jewish concept of purity and the Greek concept of divinity.

5. What did early people think their society was based on?
(a) The model of the Church.
(b) The model of the Jewish state.
(c) The model of the gods.
(d) The model of the universe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What role did women play in associations?

3. What was the Stoic recommendation for personal virtue?

4. What do the pillars in the Jerusalem group do that other Jesus movements do not?

5. What does Mack suggest the taking up of residence in Jerusalem signifies for the group?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the two major aspects in which the Christ cult differed from the Jesus movements.

2. Explain why social tension began to mount within the new mixed society of Greco-Roman times, and how these groups tried to keep their culture.

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

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 did Paul mean by "freedom from the law", according to Mack?

6. Why are Paul's letters to the Thessalonians important?

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

8. What were some of the problems exporting the Athens model of society?

9. Explain what was meant by Jesus in referring to his body as the bread, and his blood as the wine.

10. Describe the temple-state.

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