Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Burton L. Mack
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Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Burton L. Mack
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Inventing Apostolic Traditions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mack claim the author of the Acts of the Apostles set out to show?
(a) Agreement among the apostles.
(b) Disagreement between Christianity and Judaism.
(c) Disagreement among the apostles.
(d) Agreement between Christianity and Judaism.

3. What does the gospel of Matthew argue Jesus' teachings were based on?
(a) The gospel of Luke.
(b) The Torah.
(c) The gospel of Mark.
(d) The gospel of Q.

4. What is the myth of Jesus' death and resurrection rooted in, according to Mack?
(a) The concept of martyrdom.
(b) The concept of divinity.
(c) The ideas surrounding hero worship.
(d) The ideas of the kingdom of God.

5. What does Mack claim the Christ hymn was the result of?
(a) A burning desire for a personal Deity.
(b) A lie by the disciples.
(c) A conflict of authority.
(d) A vision of Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is contained in 1 Clement?

2. What does Mack note is mythmaking on a cosmic scale, in terms of the Christ hymn in Philippians 2:6-11?

3. What does Mack say the Christ cult laid the foundation for?

4. Who does Mack claim most of the sermons in the Acts of the Apostles are written for?

5. What does Mack claim about the image of Christ asking his disciples to eat and drink of him?

(see the answer key)

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