Instructions: Read all the questions before you begin to compose your answers.

Instructions:
Read all the questions before you begin to compose your answers. Make sure you are sorting your knowledge and research into the answer most appropriate to the prompt.
You must be careful to cite all sources using the Chicago Style of citation (the citation style of the field).
Put as many cards on the table as you can. Poorly crafted answers will receive correspondingly poor grades.
Questions: (total of 6 questions)
1. What was the “gentile reclamation?” Trace the evolution of this idea in (late Second Temple period) Judaism.
2. Explain why the circumcision of the gentiles was an issue for the Jesus Movement.
3. Discuss the causes of the Jewish-Roman War and its cataclysmic impact on Judaism and the Jesus Movement.
4. Discuss the causes of the Jewish-Roman War and its cataclysmic impact on Judaism and the Jesus Movement.
5. Outline the order the New Testament was written in. Include dates of likely composition.
6. What historical event was the book of Revelation responding as theorized in this class? Why was such a coded response necessary? Discuss in detail one example of the code.