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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10: Claiming Israel's Epic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two systems helped define the temple-state?
(a) Purity and salvation.
(b) Power and cruelty.
(c) Power and purity.
(d) Salvation and logic.

2. When did Jesus Movements start in Galilee?
(a) In the late first century.
(b) At the end of the last century, B.C.E.
(c) During the 30s of the first century.
(d) During the 20s of the second century.

3. When does Mack claim most of the works discussed in Chapter 8 were written?
(a) The second, third, and fourth centuries.
(b) The eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries.
(c) The fifth century.
(d) The first century.

4. What was Paul's first argument against the idea that Christians should practice Jewish law?
(a) That the Christians were Jesus' children.
(b) That he has already won his position with the pillars of Jerusalem.
(c) That the Christians were immune to the law of Jewish tradition.
(d) That the Jewish were unreasonable in their laws.

5. What is the Jewish story of the persecuted sage also called?
(a) Story of the Cynics.
(b) Story of the wisdom's child.
(c) Story of the Maccabee.
(d) Story of the resurrection.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do scholars place the writing of the Gospel of John?

2. What did Justin say about the treatment of the Jews by God, in terms of the fall of the temple and the diaspora?

3. Why does Mack claim Columbus studied the Bible?

4. What did Clement argue about the "new song" of Christianity?

5. Which of the layers of Q is least embellished?

(see the answer key)

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