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

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

Burton L. Mack
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Visions of the Cosmic Lord.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Greek model of civilization give rise to?
(a) Satanism.
(b) Altruism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Social stratification.

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

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

4. What does Mack compare the Pronouncement Stories to in Chapter 2?
(a) The stories of the Egyptians.
(b) The stories of the Cynics.
(c) The stories of the intellectuals.
(d) The stories of the Romans.

5. What does Mack suggest as a reason that Mark was overly critical of the disciples of Jerusalem?
(a) They believed in the concept of Jesus as God.
(b) They disobeyed the Jewish purity codes.
(c) They believed in the creation myth.
(d) They adhered to the Jewish purity codes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack claim is the reason for the many portrayals of Jesus?

2. What is the name of the form of mythmaking Mack notes these early Jesus people were engaged in?

3. What does Paul ask Philemon to do with Onesimus?

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

5. Who were the super apostles at Corinth?

(see the answer key)

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