Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Test | Final Test - Easy

Burton L. Mack
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Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth Test | Final Test - Easy

Burton L. Mack
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack argue John was worried about, which resulted in his authorship of Revelations?
(a) False teachings and affliction.
(b) Persecution and execution.
(c) False teaching and sickness.
(d) Sickness and affliction.

2. Whose conversion eventually led to the creation of the New Testament?
(a) Jerome.
(b) Caesar.
(c) Eusebius.
(d) Constantine.

3. What do the sermons in the Acts attempt to do?
(a) Validate the rights of the Jews.
(b) Validate the claims of Jesus.
(c) Validate the authority of the disciples.
(d) Validate God.

4. Why does Mack argue Jesus' death is qualitatively different from all other deaths of the prophets?
(a) Jesus was the son of God.
(b) Jesus was immortal.
(c) Jesus was the enemy of the state.
(d) Jesus was a martyr.

5. What does Mack argue the Letter to the Hebrews is, in reality?
(a) A philosophical exhortation.
(b) Letters that should be attributed to Paul.
(c) False letters from the Jewish leaders.
(d) A statement of principle.

6. What does Mack claim the author of the Acts of the Apostles set out to show?
(a) Agreement between Christianity and Judaism.
(b) Disagreement between Christianity and Judaism.
(c) Disagreement among the apostles.
(d) Agreement among the apostles.

7. When do scholars place the writing of the Gospel of John?
(a) In the 90s.
(b) In the 1800s.
(c) Before Christ.
(d) In the third century.

8. What is the only feature that all Christian religions have in common?
(a) Prayers for the sick.
(b) Reliance on the Bible.
(c) Prayers to Mary.
(d) Alms for the poor.

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

10. Why were the revisions of the scriptures not convincing before 70 C.E.?
(a) They could not match the logic that the epic was for the second-temple Jerusalem.
(b) They could not match the logic that the epic was for the Roman empire.
(c) They could not match the logic that the epic was for the Greek state.
(d) They could not match the logic that the epic was for Jesus.

11. What does Mack claim was added to John 19:35?
(a) A witness who saw blood and water come out of Jesus.
(b) A witness who saw blood come out of Jesus.
(c) A witness who saw Jesus turn water to wine.
(d) A witness who saw Jesus rise.

12. What did Justin argue to the Romans about Christianity?
(a) That it hurt their government.
(b) That it actually helped them.
(c) That all Christians should be exiled.
(d) That it was better than Judaism.

13. Why did the book of Hebrews not succeed?
(a) It was too intellectual.
(b) It was against the Jews.
(c) It was too long.
(d) It was illogical.

14. Who is the star from Chapter 13 to the end of the Acts of the Apostles?
(a) Jude.
(b) Paul.
(c) John.
(d) Peter.

15. In Revelations, who was found worthy enough to open the seven seals?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jesus.
(c) The lamb.
(d) Man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mack claim most of the sermons in the Acts of the Apostles are written for?

2. How did early Christians think of their world?

3. Where did Justin claim the Greek philosophers received their wisdom?

4. What did Clement argue about the "new song" of Christianity?

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

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