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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Teachings From the Jesus Movements.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack claim about the authors of the sections in the New Testament?
(a) They were descendants of Jesus.
(b) They were uneducated militants, rebelling against the Church.
(c) They are not the people each section is attributed to.
(d) They are the people each section is attributed to.

2. What two words came to represent the debate between power and the divine law of nature?
(a) Nature and tyrants.
(b) Power and nature.
(c) King and tyrant.
(d) Priests and rulers.

3. What two Gods from different cultures were seen to be the same?
(a) Osiris and Isis.
(b) Athena and Zeus.
(c) Hermes and Thoth.
(d) Philo and Alexandria.

4. How many layers of the Gospel Q exist?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Twenty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mack claim Columbus studied the Bible?

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

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

4. What feature of the Jerusalem group allows readers to build a profile?

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

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