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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: The Fascination of the Bible.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack claim is the power of the Bible?
(a) Its function as a script for Christian life.
(b) Its function as a script for Christian festival meals.
(c) Its function as a script for Christian worship.
(d) Its function as a script for Christian expansion.

2. What does Mack suggest the taking up of residence in Jerusalem signifies for the group?
(a) A political agenda.
(b) A loyalty to the Pharisee.
(c) A disrespect for Jewish tradition.
(d) A religious agenda.

3. What did the Centrists seek to prove to the challengers?
(a) That God cared only for the Jews.
(b) That God did not exist.
(c) That the Christian God was the same as the Jewish God.
(d) That the Christian God was not the same as the Jewish God.

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. Why did the literature that the early bishops threw out survive?
(a) It was protected by other bishops.
(b) It was protected by the Romans.
(c) Jews preserved it.
(d) Christians continued to read it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the core objective of the epic of Israel through the end of the second temple?

2. What does Jonathan Z Smith claim rituals mark?

3. Whose conversion eventually led to the creation of the New Testament?

4. What is different about Peter in comparison to Jude?

5. Where does evidence for the Christ cult come from?

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