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

2. What did the Christ hymn imply about the domain of Jesus?
(a) It encompassed all people.
(b) It encompassed only the gentiles.
(c) It encompassed only the Jews.
(d) It diminished in size.

3. What way did ethnic or cultural groups create small social units within the larger culture they found themselves in?
(a) They met in government.
(b) They worked with one another.
(c) They created fellowships and associations.
(d) They met in educational institutions.

4. What collection of early Christian texts does the Didache now belong to?
(a) The Dead Sea Scrolls.
(b) Revelations.
(c) The Apostolic Fathers.
(d) Acts of the Apostles.

5. It is as important for the disciples to be apostles as it is for Jesus to be ___________________.
(a) The Christ.
(b) Son of man.
(c) God.
(d) Son of God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Paul stress was important, since they were "members of Christ"?

3. What does Mack claim is Mark's greatest achievement?

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

5. Why were issues such as homosexuality a source of cultural conflict?

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