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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 are the ways David is indicted under Deuteronomic Law?
(a) Cowardice, adultery, blasphemy, treachery, and gluttony.
(b) Hate, shame, fear, and murder.
(c) Prowess, theft, and threatening and controlling others.
(d) Love, fear of God, kindness, mildness, and care.

2. What does the Bible show without cover-up?
(a) God as a saint.
(b) God as anything but a saint.
(c) Prophets whose stories compliment one another.
(d) The purity of the Israelites.

3. When did God appear more wild and thunderous than any time before?
(a) In Jerusalem.
(b) On Mt. Sinai.
(c) In the whirlwind.
(d) In Egypt.

4. What character eludes the baby killers, grows to manhood in Egypt, flees, and settles down as a shepherd?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Moses.
(c) Elijah.
(d) Jacob.

5. How is the Bible unique?
(a) It is a translated classic, read by only a tiny minority in the original language.
(b) It has been translated into hundreds of languages.
(c) It is the most important book that is in existence.
(d) It is read by people from many cultures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do these references do?

2. How does a fully-integrated Yahweh/Elohim God appear to Moses?

3. What Jewish and Christian texts cover the same material?

4. What is the plot of the Tanakh?

5. What is another name for the Ten Commandments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What promise does God keep in Joshua?

2. How does Miles disagree with systematic theologians and the character and actions of God?

3. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?

4. How do critics and scholars differ on their approach to literary characters?

5. Describe the god Baal.

6. How are the two personalities of God different?

7. Whose statement does Miles raise at the end of the keynote? What is that statement?

8. Whose traits does one see in God in 2 Samuel?

9. What are three ways in which God is different from the gods of Greek mythology?

10. How does the frightful Yahweh act towards the man and the woman after they are punished and before they are expelled from the garden?

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