Author Question: What was significant about the mystery cults and religions of the Hellenistic world? a. They were ... (Read 26 times)

ericka1 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

The biblical stories of the Garden of Eden and the Flood derive from

a. Egyptian sources.
b. Persian sources.
c. Canaanite sources.
d. Mesopotamian sources.
e. Philistine sources.

Question 2

What was significant about the mystery cults and religions of the Hellenistic world?

a. They were completely foreign and thus unacceptable to the Greeks.
b. They helped pave the way for the success of Christianity.
c. They never achieved widespread popularity due to their inability to fulfill people's spiritual needs.
d. They lacked an emotional initiation experience, unlike the Greek civic cults.
e. They became the state religions of the various Hellenistic kingdoms.