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

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

Burton L. Mack
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mack claim is the point of the Letter of James?
(a) Showing the importance of living a moral life.
(b) Showing the importance of God's will.
(c) Showing the importance of the Christian faith.
(d) Showing the importance Jesus' word.

2. When does Mack argue Mark's gospel was written?
(a) After the Roman-Jewish war.
(b) During the fourth century.
(c) Before the Roman-Jewish war.
(d) Prior to the birth of Christ.

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

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

5. During the time of the writing of Revelations, what does Mack argue the Christians were being accused of by the Romans?
(a) Extortion.
(b) Disloyalty.
(c) Murder.
(d) Theft.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did early Christians think of their world?

2. What collection of early Christian texts does the Didache now belong to?

3. Why does Mack argue Jesus' death is qualitatively different from all other deaths of the prophets?

4. What did the Centrists seek to prove to the challengers?

5. What does canon mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two strong desires drove Christianity?

2. What are the four types of miracle interpretation occurring in the Gospel of John?

3. What did the Jewish scripture available to early Christians consist of?

4. What were the four ways of reading the scripture that supported the Christian inclusion of Jewish scripture in their religion?

5. What two values are integrated in the Letters of Ignatius, and what is the result?

6. What is Mack's argument about why John wrote Revelations?

7. What are the significant differences between the Pauline and Johannine traditions, as discussed by Mack in chapter 8?

8. What are the three themes that dominate the story of Jesus and his resurrection in the Gospel of Luke?

9. What are the major points of the sermons contained in the Acts, according to Mack?

10. What were the common values contained in both the temple system of sacrifice and the family system of rituals that allowed the translation of one into the other?

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