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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Letters from the Apostles.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mack claim is the link that gives the Christian Bible logic and force?
(a) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the New Testament.
(b) The link between the Jewish temple, and the New Testament.
(c) The link between the Jewish scriptures of the Old Testament, and the Catholic Church.
(d) The link between the Protestant Bible and the Apocrypha.

3. What did Paul's Jewish sensibility place high value on?
(a) Honor.
(b) Divinity.
(c) Community.
(d) Holiness.

4. Why does Mack believe the stories in the New Testament were chosen to be included?
(a) They are believed to be written by the prophets.
(b) They produce a history that seems cohesive.
(c) They are the only stories found of the time of Jesus.
(d) They are the most interesting.

5. What does Mack claim is the purpose of the Miracle Stories of Mark?
(a) To explain historic facts of Jesus.
(b) To describe the wonders of faith.
(c) To create the impression of a divine power.
(d) To explain the supernatural powers of the disciples.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack claim about the various groups that formed in the schools of Jesus?

2. Why does Mack claim that the Jesus cult succeeded?

3. What does Paul assure the Thessalonians in terms of "those who had died"?

4. Where did the Jesus movement begin their change to the Christ cult?

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

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