Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Burton L. Mack
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 158 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Burton L. Mack
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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. Whose stories are mimicked in the Miracle Stories?
(a) The Jewish scriptures.
(b) The Egyptian scriptures.
(c) Roman myth.
(d) Greek mythology.

2. What does Mark's gospel do to the disciples that the story of Q did not?
(a) Ignores them.
(b) Kills them.
(c) Names them.
(d) Worships them.

3. What are the two activities Mack gives credit to in terms of the creation of Christian beliefs?
(a) Social formation and mythmaking.
(b) Apocalyptic preaching and fantasy.
(c) Social disintegration and intellectual stimulus.
(d) Social conflict and experimentation.

4. What is a Christ hymn?
(a) A song specifically geared toward God.
(b) A song specifically geared toward Jesus.
(c) A genre of praise poetry.
(d) A genre of poetry to the angels.

5. Who were the super apostles at Corinth?
(a) Disciples of Paul.
(b) Hebrews and Israelites.
(c) Jews and Protestants.
(d) The Pillars of Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Mark portray Jesus?

2. Why does Mack claim groups are forming outside the boundaries of religion to study the Bible?

3. What do Paul's letters to the Romans represent?

4. Why does Mack claim the Bible was important by the end of the fourth century?

5. What does the passage in Romans 3:21-26 say about why Jesus' death was effective?

(see the answer key)

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