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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. Many technical studies deal with how the God of Israel arose as a fusion of Semitic deities, but what do they fail to ask?
(a) How this affected the Jews?
(b) Of what other cultures was the God of Israel a god?
(c) What deities were part of this fusion?
(d) How did all this feel to God?
2. What is the unifying principle of the Tanakh?
(a) God' love for himself.
(b) God's war with himself.
(c) God's love of humankind.
(d) God's fight with the devil.
3. What god is He compared to after his transformation?
(a) Mab.
(b) Bathseba.
(c) Baal.
(d) Buddha.
4. What does war do to God?
(a) It makes him a better father.
(b) It permanently transforms him.
(c) It makes him evil.
(d) It makes him sad.
5. For what acronym is "Tanakh?"
(a) Torah, "teaching," nebim, "prophets," and ketubim, "writings."
(b) Tyra, "speaker," nebular, "cosmic," and ketchem, "source."
(c) Tambor, "muse," nell, "god," and kell, "sanctity."
(d) Taliya, "describe," newsome, "interpret," and kettlyn, "evaluate."
Short Answer Questions
1. What can one gain from examining the Bible as a literary biography of God?
2. Why are the virgin daughters of one Israelite town that does not answer the call to massacre the Benjaminites allowed to be raped by the survivors?
3. On what is Western civilization built?
4. What must God do to maintain contact with the remnant that survives destruction?
5. What does God do as he creates the world and populates it with animals in five days?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is God compared to modern actors and Don Quixote?
2. How does the frightful Yahweh act towards the man and the woman after they are punished and before they are expelled from the garden?
3. Into what does the Tanakh turn the Israelite's religious experience?
4. How does God show mercy towards the Israelites after the destruction in Deuteronomy?
5. In Gen. 4-11, how does God the Destroyer feel toward human beings?
6. What is "new historicism?"
7. What does Exodus conclude with Moses constructing?
8. Describe the god Baal.
9. How does God deal with humans?
10. How does Miles disagree with systematic theologians and the character and actions of God?
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